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Creflo Dollar - Understanding Your Jesus Identity

July 20, 2026 | 27:30

Creflo Dollar - Understanding Your Jesus Identity
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Understanding Your Jesus Identity | July 20, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: when your thoughts and your emotions and
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  • Your actions start flowing out of the truth that you're already
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  • Righteous, you're already holy, you're already complete in him.
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  • Say this out loud, "i'm already righteous.
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  • I'm already holy.
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  • I'm already complete in him."
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  • When you can settle that, then you understand that you're not
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  • Trying to become something, you're living from what's
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  • Already true about you.
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  • Creflo: i made this statement, which we went by pretty quickly,
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  • And when i got home last week, i'm like, "ooh, i need to back
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  • Up, that's too strong to go by," and the statement was: sin is
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  • Not just stuff you do.
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  • That's what we've been used to, sin is just the stuff you do,
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  • But i said this.
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  • I said: sin is being out of sync with your true identity, and
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  • Thus, you miss out on your sonship.
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  • Being out of sync with your true identity, and the lord begin to
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  • Deal with me all week long about that.
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  • I mean, even on the grace gang confessions, we just all week
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  • Taught about identity.
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  • Wednesday night i came on the wednesday night crew on the
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  • Bible study, and we we talked about identity, and it's getting
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  • Bigger and bigger and bigger in me, and so, i guess--i don't
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  • Know whether i was sleep or not this morning.
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  • The question kept coming in my head.
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  • What does it mean to be in sync with your true identity?
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  • And it kept coming in my head.
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  • He said, "what does it mean to be in sync
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  • With your true identity?"
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  • And i saw this, it's like, it's got to move from articulation to
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  • Practice, and it's not gonna be good enough to say these things
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  • To people, and they don't know what it means, and they can't
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  • See the practical side of it.
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  • Well, one of the things i do know is that you being in sync
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  • With your true identity, and this past week i just decided to
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  • Call it your jesus identity, is that when you're in sync with
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  • Your true identity, you are prepared to walk in authority on
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  • This earth, and we'll get to that, but we got a ways to go
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  • Because i committed to teaching on identity every day during
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  • Confessions, teaching on identity every week doing bible
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  • Study, teaching on identity every sunday here, and i'm just
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  • Gonna believe god that you're gonna get this today.
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  • Will you believe with me?
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  • I'm gonna believe god that we're gonna
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  • All walk out of here and understand it.
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  • So let's--if it's a big issue for us to be out of sync with
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  • Our true identity, then i wanna deal with that question:
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  • What does it mean to be in sync with your true identity?
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  • What does it mean to be in sync with your jesus identity?
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  • You ready?
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  • So being in sync with your true identity really means living in
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  • Agreement with who you truly are in christ.
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  • Being in sync with your true identity really means living in
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  • Agreement with who you truly are in christ, not who the world
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  • Says you are, or even who your past says you are, but who god
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  • Says you are because of jesus, and you would be surprised of
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  • The number of christian people, they don't know their
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  • Jesus identity.
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  • They don't know who they are in christ.
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  • They listen to what the world says about them, they listen to
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  • What their past says about them, and we need to hear what jesus
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  • Has to say about our true identity.
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  • It is when your thoughts, it's when your emotions, it's when
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  • Your actions--when your thoughts, when your emotions,
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  • When your actions starts to flow out of the truth that you're
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  • Already made righteous, that you're already made holy, that
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  • You're already made sanctified, all--the redemption, everything
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  • Jesus has done for us.
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  • It's when your thoughts and your emotions and your actions start
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  • Flowing out of the truth that you're already righteous, you're
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  • Already holy, you're already complete in him.
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  • Say this out loud, "i'm already righteous.
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  • I'm already holy.
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  • I'm already complete in him."
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  • When you can settle that, then you understand that you're not
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  • Trying to become something, you're living from what's
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  • Already true about you.
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  • Does that make sense?
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  • You're living from from your righteousness.
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  • You're living from holiness.
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  • You're living from the truth that you already complete
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  • In him.
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  • This is no longer you're doing something to try to achieve or
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  • That you're performing to try to be righteous.
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  • You're righteous because of jesus.
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  • You're holy because of jesus.
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  • You're complete because of jesus,
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  • And it is already finished.
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  • It is done, completed, it's finished, and he's like,
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  • This is who you are.
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  • So stop trying to become what you already are.
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  • Go ahead and embrace what you already are.
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  • Oh, come on somebody, say, "i'm righteous, now.
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  • I'm holy, now.
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  • I'm complete in jesus, now."
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  • Oh my goodness.
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  • Is there a battle on the bus now, right?
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  • So colossians 2, verse 10, let's look at that in the king james
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  • And the mirror translations.
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  • Colossians 2:10.
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  • So what does this mean for me to be in sync with him?
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  • It's my real identity, man.
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  • I'm living in agreement with who i truly am in christ.
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  • So that changes everything.
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  • I'm not walking around trying to be righteous.
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  • I'm walking around righteous.
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  • I'm not walking around trying to get holy.
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  • I'm holy.
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  • I'm not walking around working to be complete with him.
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  • I am complete with him.
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  • Look at this.
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  • He says, "and you are"--well, there it is.
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  • "and you are complete in him, which is the head of all
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  • Principality and power."
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  • Now, it's up to us to accept, embrace, and receive that.
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  • I am complete with him now.
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  • I'm not trying to become complete, i am.
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  • Look at this in the mirror translation.
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  • He says, "we are complete in him.
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  • Jesus mirrors our wholeness and endorses our true identity.
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  • He is i am in us."
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  • Oh, lord, let's read that again.
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  • "he is i am in us."
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  • "we are complete in him."
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  • Say, "i'm complete in jesus."
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  • Now, this is the part that stunned me and paralyzed me when
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  • I started looking at this.
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  • "jesus mirrors our wholeness."
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  • You want to know what wholeness looks like?
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  • Jesus mirrors what we have.
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  • We look at jesus, and say, "wait a minute, that's me."
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  • Look at that. see, you paused.
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  • Your religion got you, "no, wait a minute.
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  • I'm a sinner saved by grace."
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  • Well, which one are you?
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  • Sinner or saved by grace, which one?
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  • I never understood that.
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  • If you're still a sinner after being saved, then why you
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  • Got saved?
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  • "jesus mirrors our wholeness and he endorses our true identity.
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  • He," jesus is, "he is i am in us."
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  • Say this, "i am is in me now.
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  • I'm not working to try to get i am in me.
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  • I am is in me, and jesus has endorsed it."
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  • Say one more word, one more word, "now."
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  • All right, look at galatians 2:20.
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  • This is my favorite one.
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  • Galatians 2:20, the king james first and then the mirror.
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  • King james first, mirror--i'm just laying a foundation for
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  • Where we're going, and y'all know i wasn't planning on--i
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  • Didn't even--this was not in--on my agenda, but it is on him.
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  • That's why we need him.
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  • He says, "i'm crucified with christ: nevertheless i live; yet
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  • Not i, but christ lives in me: and the life which i now live in
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  • The flesh i live by the faith, not of my faith," but, "i live
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  • By the faith of the son of god."
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  • I live by jesus's faith.
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  • "i live by the faith of the son of god, who loved me, and he
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  • Gave himself for me."
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  • Look at this in the mirror translation.
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  • He says, "so here i am dead and alive at the same time.
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  • I'm dead to the old me."
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  • What taffi was sharing this morning.
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  • "i am dead to the old me."
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  • It's time to get acquainted with the new you.
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  • Mmm.
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  • "i'm dead to the old me i was trying to be."
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  • "i'm dead to the old me i was trying to be and i'm alive to
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  • The real me which is christ."
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  • "i'm alive to the real me, the real me, which is christ in me."
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  • I'm alive to the real me, and the real me is christ in me.
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  • The real me is christ in me.
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  • That's the real me.
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  • The real me is christ in me.
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  • The real me is not the old me.
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  • The real me is christ in me.
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  • Somebody say, "now."
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  • Mmm, wow, wow.
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  • "i'm co-crucified," when he was crucified, at the same time
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  • I was crucified, that flesh was, "i'm co-alive," when he was
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  • Resurrected, i was resurrected.
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  • "what a glorious entanglement.
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  • I was in him--i was in him in his death."
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  • So it ain't nothing he did that i didn't experience.
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  • "now i discover that he is infused in me, in my life."
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  • I was in him in his death.
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  • Now he's been infused in me in my life.
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  • "for the first time, i'm free to be me in my skin."
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Creflo: so, to make a long story short, to be in sync with your
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  • Jesus identity means you stop striving to become, and you
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  • Start believing you already are.
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  • That's what it means to be in sync with your true identity.
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  • You're no longer striving to become, you now start believing
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  • You already are.
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  • You live from that place.
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  • You live from your jesus identity.
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  • You speak from your jesus identity.
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  • You release your authority from your jesus--see, notice all of
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  • The things that can swiftly start happening in your life if
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  • You start living in sync with your true identity.
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  • You live from that place.
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  • You respond to life from that place.
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  • Everything that happens, you respond from the place of who
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  • You already are.
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  • So i'll use it several times a day, but if fear shows up, you
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  • Don't respond from your old place.
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  • You're responding from the place you are.
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  • Fear shows up, and you say, "wait a minute, that's not me.
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  • That's the old me. i don't fear no more.
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  • The new me walks in power and love, glory to god," and so you
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  • Start responding from who you already are.
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  • You start responding from who you already are.
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  • You start responding from the point that you're complete
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  • With christ.
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  • You're in union with christ.
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  • So when you're complete in christ and you're in union with
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  • Christ, there's a level of confidence that should rise up
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  • On the inside of you, where you're not striving to get god
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  • To do something because you're in union with christ.
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  • You very calmly say, "sickness, move."
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  • Oh, y'all better get ready.
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  • You're gonna see an amplification of miracles and
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  • Signs and wonders in the life of the person who has his true
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  • Identity in sync with god.
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  • Okay, so i'm looking at that all right.
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  • Okay, so, lord, thank you, thank you, thank you
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  • We're able to articulate that.
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  • Thank you, that that makes sense to me.
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  • But now here's the other thing.
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  • Here's my next question.
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  • So what's the benefit?
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  • What's the benefit for me being in sync with my true identity?
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  • Why should i care?
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  • I don't know who used to sing this song.
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  • ♪ what you going to do for me? ♪
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  • You remember that?
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  • ♪ what you gonna do for me? ♪
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  • Now, young people like, huh?
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  • Now, that was before y'all start singing that, "shoot them up,
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  • Kill 'em, and knock 'em out there."
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Creflo: and i remember trying to explain a revelation to my wife,
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  • And it was all complicated and deep and all of this, and she
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  • Paused, and she looked at me, she says, "okay, first of all,
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  • Why should i care?
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  • How is it going to help me?
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  • And how can i practically do this?"
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  • Now, the first part of me when she said that was like, "you
  • 00:15:59.304 --> 00:16:01.340
  • Just ain't--you ain't mature enough, that's the problem.
  • 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:03.475
  • You just ain't--" and then i thought about it, and after i
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  • Confused myself with the revelation, i said, "i don't
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  • Even care no more," you know what i'm saying?
  • 00:16:10.649 --> 00:16:13.385
  • But it makes sense to me.
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  • I need to know how is this gonna benefit me in my daily life?
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  • How is it gonna benefit me in my walk?
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  • What are the benefits of me being in sync with my--i call
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  • It, i call your true identity your jesus identity, and you can
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  • See based on the scriptures i just shared.
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  • Well, first of all, you start living from a place of rest
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  • Instead a place of striving.
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  • Okay, so when you are in sync with your jesus identity, you
  • 00:16:38.444 --> 00:16:42.681
  • Start moving from a place of rest.
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  • This place of rest is a place of trust.
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  • It's a place of confidence.
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  • It's a place of rest and confidence in what jesus has
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  • Said about you.
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  • It's a place of rest and--confidence in the
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  • Finished works of jesus christ.
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  • So i am--i'm not ceasing from work, but i'm resting in work.
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  • It doesn't mean put your pajamas on and go to bed, all right?
  • 00:17:07.573 --> 00:17:12.377
  • So when you're resting in something, you're moving on a
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  • Level of trust and confidence where you're not dependent on
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  • Your performance and effort to make it come to pass.
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  • You believe it's already done, and you find rest in that, okay?
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  • I asked the lord for an illustration of rest, and he
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  • Says when a person--when you're really at rest--well, it was
  • 00:17:29.528 --> 00:17:32.931
  • Kind of like when i ask him about faith.
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  • I like, "you know, so what's the highest kind of faith."
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  • He says, "rest."
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  • When you're at rest, that's the highest kind of faith.
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  • I mean, you're not striving.
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  • You already just believe it, you receive it, and you find rest in
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  • It, and you don't move from it, and it is what it is.
  • 00:17:45.410 --> 00:17:48.714
  • Well, it's the same kind of question here.
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  • How do i describe that rest?
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  • He says, "when you're in celebration, you're at rest."
  • 00:17:53.685 --> 00:17:57.456
  • Celebrate rest?
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  • Well, for example, if you're celebrating--if you're resting
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  • In your righteousness, you're praising and celebrating god for
  • 00:18:02.060 --> 00:18:05.097
  • Your righteousness.
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  • You're not striving to be righteous.
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  • You're--you've moved from working to be righteous to i
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  • Receive i'm righteous.
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  • Now i celebrate the righteousness that i have.
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  • I celebrate my jesus identity.
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  • I'm not trying to figure out how to get my identity.
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  • I'm celebrating, and through my celebration and praise and
  • 00:18:19.144 --> 00:18:22.181
  • Confidence about who i am, i am exemplifying and demonstrating
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  • That i am at rest.
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  • Okay, so you start living from that place of rest instead of
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  • Striving when you are in sync with your true identity.
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  • You stop fighting for approval.
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  • You stop fighting for love.
  • 00:18:42.834 --> 00:18:44.670
  • You stop fighting for approval, love, or worth.
  • 00:18:44.670 --> 00:18:48.941
  • You're not fighting for that anymore, why?
  • 00:18:48.941 --> 00:18:50.776
  • Because you know you already have it.
  • 00:18:50.776 --> 00:18:54.279
  • I don't need to strive and fight for approval.
  • 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:56.381
  • I already know i have it.
  • 00:18:56.381 --> 00:18:57.749
  • I don't need to strive and fast 50
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  • Days to try to get god to love me.
  • 00:19:00.485 --> 00:19:01.820
  • I already know i have it. i already know i have it.
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  • Life stops feeling like a performance, and it starts
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  • Feeling like a relationship.
  • 00:19:09.628 --> 00:19:12.331
  • It stops feeling like a performance.
  • 00:19:12.331 --> 00:19:14.933
  • It starts feeling like a relationship.
  • 00:19:14.933 --> 00:19:18.003
  • So i wanna share just one scripture with this.
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  • I really hadn't gotten started yet.
  • 00:19:20.072 --> 00:19:21.673
  • To me this is like the foundation of why you need to
  • 00:19:21.673 --> 00:19:24.910
  • Pay attention to what i'm saying in the next three weeks or so.
  • 00:19:24.910 --> 00:19:29.748
  • So here's a benefit: peace.
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  • One huge benefit of being in sync with your true identity
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  • Is peace.
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  • Look at isaiah 32, and verse 17.
  • 00:19:41.793 --> 00:19:44.296
  • Isaiah 32, and verse 17, peace.
  • 00:19:44.296 --> 00:19:49.801
  • Here's what he said, "and the works of righteousness shall be
  • 00:19:49.801 --> 00:19:53.538
  • Peace; and the effect of righteousness will be quietness
  • 00:19:53.538 --> 00:19:57.376
  • And assurance for ever."
  • 00:19:57.376 --> 00:19:59.478
  • Now, here's what i mean by this.
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  • When you know your righteousness--when you know
  • 00:20:00.846 --> 00:20:02.781
  • You're righteous, excuse me, because of jesus--i know i'm
  • 00:20:02.781 --> 00:20:06.218
  • Righteous because of jesus.
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  • I know i'm redeemed because of jesus.
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  • I know that i'm in him, and i'm loved, and i'm highly favored.
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  • I know all of this because of jesus.
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  • So when you know you're righteous because of jesus,
  • 00:20:18.363 --> 00:20:21.166
  • Peace becomes your default and not your anxiety, and it's not
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  • Something that you're trying to work to get because i know who
  • 00:20:26.672 --> 00:20:30.575
  • I am.
  • 00:20:30.575 --> 00:20:32.377
  • Let me give you another one real quickly: boldness.
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  • Boldness, 1 john 4:17, boldness is a benefit of being
  • 00:20:36.181 --> 00:20:46.191
  • In sync with your true identity.
  • 00:20:46.191 --> 00:20:48.193
  • Verse 17 says, "herein is our love made perfect, that we may
  • 00:20:48.193 --> 00:20:52.664
  • Have," what?
  • 00:20:52.664 --> 00:20:53.999
  • "boldness in the day of judgment," why?
  • 00:20:53.999 --> 00:20:56.168
  • "because as he is, so are we in this world."
  • 00:20:56.168 --> 00:20:59.438
  • I have boldness because, "as he is so are we in this world."
  • 00:20:59.438 --> 00:21:04.343
  • I have boldness.
  • 00:21:04.343 --> 00:21:05.711
  • See, when you realize you're just like jesus in spirit, you
  • 00:21:05.711 --> 00:21:09.081
  • Approach life, even the challenges, with the confidence
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  • Instead of the fear.
  • 00:21:12.718 --> 00:21:14.052
  • I don't have confidence because as he is, so am i.
  • 00:21:14.052 --> 00:21:16.455
  • Something happens, i'm not walking in fear.
  • 00:21:16.455 --> 00:21:19.157
  • I'm not walking, worrying about this happening or not happening.
  • 00:21:19.157 --> 00:21:24.162
  • The challenges don't move me like they used to move me.
  • 00:21:24.162 --> 00:21:26.732
  • I am in sync with my true identity.
  • 00:21:26.732 --> 00:21:29.301
  • As he is, so are we in this world.
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  • So it gives me boldness.
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  • It gives me a liberty.
  • 00:21:33.205 --> 00:21:34.706
  • It gives me the confidence that i have and an assurance that i
  • 00:21:34.706 --> 00:21:37.876
  • Have because as he is, so am i.
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  • When you begin to think like that, and begin to receive your
  • 00:21:40.779 --> 00:21:44.783
  • Jesus identity, dude, you start walking really, really bold.
  • 00:21:44.783 --> 00:21:49.087
  • You look at situations in the face, and say, "not here,
  • 00:21:49.087 --> 00:21:52.791
  • Not today.
  • 00:21:52.791 --> 00:21:54.292
  • You don't know who you're messing with, do you?
  • 00:21:54.292 --> 00:21:57.162
  • Not only am i from college park, but i know who i am.
  • 00:21:57.162 --> 00:22:00.165
  • I'm in sync with my jesus identity.
  • 00:22:00.165 --> 00:22:02.534
  • You better go somewhere else with this."
  • 00:22:02.534 --> 00:22:11.209
  • This is something we can't just talk about one week, and then
  • 00:22:11.209 --> 00:22:14.146
  • You put it in your catalog, and say, "oh, i have a--i have some
  • 00:22:14.146 --> 00:22:17.416
  • Notes on identity."
  • 00:22:17.416 --> 00:22:20.218
  • Out of all of these years, this is like the bedrock of where we
  • 00:22:20.218 --> 00:22:25.023
  • Need to go.
  • 00:22:25.023 --> 00:22:26.892
  • If we can get this, there are lots of places that we need to
  • 00:22:26.892 --> 00:22:32.297
  • Go, and will be open to us, and we don't have to
  • 00:22:32.297 --> 00:22:35.667
  • Sweat like sinners, man.
  • 00:22:35.667 --> 00:22:37.002
  • We can have sweatless victory.
  • 00:22:37.002 --> 00:22:39.671
  • In fact, i pronounce that over you right now,
  • 00:22:39.671 --> 00:22:42.541
  • Sweatless victory.
  • 00:22:42.541 --> 00:22:44.743
  • I declare that in these last days, while others are sweating
  • 00:22:44.743 --> 00:22:48.413
  • To try to get something, you're gonna operate in sweatless
  • 00:22:48.413 --> 00:22:51.983
  • Victory, knowing you already have it, praise god.
  • 00:22:51.983 --> 00:22:55.187
  • Hallelujah, glory to god. hallelujah, glory to god.
  • 00:22:55.187 --> 00:22:59.691
  • That anointing is going to produce sweatless victory in
  • 00:22:59.691 --> 00:23:03.061
  • Your life, hallelujah.
  • 00:23:03.061 --> 00:23:05.197
  • And the reason why it's sweatless is
  • 00:23:05.197 --> 00:23:06.832
  • 'cause you realize it's already done.
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  • Creflo dollar: as we wrap up today's broadcast,
  • 00:26:05.644 --> 00:26:07.412
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted
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  • And begin an exciting, intimate relationship with jesus,
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  • Pray this prayer with me now.
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  • Heavenly father, come into my heart,
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  • Save me, 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,
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  • I wanna welcome you to the kingdom of god.
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