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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - The Importance Of Not Running From Battles | August 28, 2025
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- Taffi dollar: choose whose side you're gonna be on
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- When you deal with the giants in your life.
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- You've got to make a decision.
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- When a giant stands up, you've got to remind yourself
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- That the lord is my helper.
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- He helps me when i don't even know what to do.
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- He helps me to make the right decision.
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- He helps me when i don't even know i need help.
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- Taffi: so one of the ways that we can do to stop running
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- Away from our problems is to be bigger than your fears.
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- Be bigger than your fears.
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- I remember before the pandemic started, creflo called me in,
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- He said, "i got a call from the mayor of south fulton.
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- He says we've got to cancel services.
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- We've got to shut down the building.
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- We cannot allow any more than,"
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- Whatever the number was at that time.
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- And we were right on the cusp of our annual conference.
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- And i said, "dear lord," this was like, second or third week
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- In march before, you know, things just began--things were
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- Just kind of starting to happen.
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- And it was this toiling between to cancel it or the decision
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- To have it.
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- Now, granted, that was before any events were virtual,
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- Before things--everybody during that time was
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- Just canceling everything.
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- All the major events were canceled.
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- Music festivals, sporting events,
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- Everything, was canceled.
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- Anybody remember that?
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- And so, i said, "lord, i just need to not allow my fear
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- To govern dealing with this situation,
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- Dealing with this problem."
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- And so, i realized the importance of just being led
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- By god and knowing whether or not i'm doing what god wants me
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- To do, 'cause i'm more concerned about pleasing him
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- Than i am anything.
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- And, you know, we had some things in place, thankfully,
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- That we could easily pivot and make the meeting virtual and
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- That's what we decided to do, as opposed to just canceling it
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- Altogether and just, you know, packing up everything that we
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- Had planned, you know, for such a long period of time.
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- We said, "you know what?
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- We're going to face this head on."
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- And you know, we were out there on the water.
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- You know, sometimes when you face problems in your life,
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- You're out there by yourself.
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- It hadn't been done before, no--i mean, you know, there's
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- Nothing new under the sun but, you know, it feels that way.
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- And so, it's important for us to recognize
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- That we must be bigger than our fears.
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- And that's how david was.
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- He was bigger than goliath.
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- He was bigger than the fears that all of the army had.
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- He says, "i'm bigger than that.
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- I've been out here with a lion, i've been out here with a bear.
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- I've been out here and took the animals out of the lion's mouth.
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- I've taken animals out of the bear's mouth.
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- Who is this uncircumcised philistine, because
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- He'll be just like the lion, he'll be just like the bear."
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- And so, david, he showed up.
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- And when he showed up, he showed up in courage.
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- He showed up in confidence.
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- He showed up willing to rely on god's covenant,
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- God's plan, for his life.
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- All of israel were terrified.
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- None of them would dare to challenge goliath, but after
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- David heard about the reward for defeating goliath,
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- He accepted the challenge as if it were nothing.
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- As if it were nothing.
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- Not to mention, he was like a baby in size.
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- In fact, saul asked him, said, "david, are you sure
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- That you wanna do this?"
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- Look at verse 24 and 37,
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- 24 and verse 37.
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- It says: "and all the men of israel, when they saw the man,
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- Fled from him, they were sore afraid."
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- Now, skip down to verse 37, he says, "and david said moreover,
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- The lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out
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- Of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand
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- Of this philistine.
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- And saul said unto david, go."
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- Saul said, "i ain't going, but you can go."
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- Some people leave you out there by yourself,
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- But that's all right.
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- If you know that you know in your knower, hey,
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- The lord will be with you.
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- Just like the lord was with david.
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- Just like the lord was with, you know, gideon.
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- Just like all the other situations
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- And patriarchs of the past.
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- The lord will be with us, amen?
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- And so, number two.
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- So, number one, be bigger than your fears.
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- Be bigger than your fears.
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- Number two, the size of the problem doesn't matter.
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- We have to make a decision.
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- The size of the problem because goliath was huge.
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- He was believed to be 9 foot tall, his armor-bearer went
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- Before him, and the, i think it was the tip of the sword was all
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- These pounds and so, you know, it was very obvious that he was
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- A big man.
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- But you know what?
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- David wasn't moved by that.
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- David wasn't concerned about his size.
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- Now, saul was.
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- And saul brought it to his attention.
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- So in life, we will come across, how many of you know,
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- Big challenges.
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- You know why?
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- 'cause the devil wants to wipe us out.
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- There'll be some small challenges, there'll be tiny
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- Challenges, there'll be enormous challenges.
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- But the size of the challenge, the size of the problem,
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- The size of the obstacle, is irrelevant, because
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- That doesn't determine what's possible for me.
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- The only thing that determines what's possible
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- For you is your mindset.
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- You determine what's possible for you.
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- You determine your mindset, you determine your beliefs,
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- You determine how you see the problem.
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- See, david didn't see the problem, goliath, like everybody
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- Else saw the problem.
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- David didn't see the giant like his brothers saw the giant.
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- David just popped up, "hey, what's going on?"
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- And they were all dismayed and worked up.
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- He said, "oh, absolutely not, because size did not matter
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- To david as it did.
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- And if it did, he wouldn't
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- Have had the courage to take on goliath.
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- Especially with a staff and five smooth stones and a sling.
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- It was david's heart, it was with his courage,
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- And it was his commitment.
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- So, think bigger than the challenge.
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- Be bigger than the obstacle.
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- And you know what david did?
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- Act as if it's impossible for you to fail.
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- When we stepped out and did that conference and i'm like,
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- "oh, lord, we're out here on the water.
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- Internet, don't fail me now."
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- People were joining the stream and some of 'em were
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- Just falling out of the stream, just people falling out
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- Left and right.
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- Texts, emails, "i'm getting kicked out.
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- Somebody help me. i'm out here.
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- I'm trying to watch y'all, but--" you know, i'm like,
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- "oh, father."
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- That first session, it was something else.
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- And then i just said, "lord, i just trust you that you're going
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- To allow the people who need to hear this, the people who need
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- To receive this, to be in the position to get
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- What needs to be gotten."
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- And you've got to be like david.
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- He's--his attitude was "this is impossible for me to fail."
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- You know why?
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- 'cause he had god on his side.
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- He knew who he was.
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- He knew who was backing him.
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- He knew why he was doing it.
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- His motive was right.
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- The reason what he do it--what he was doing was right.
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- And so the size of the problem doesn't matter.
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- We have to make a what?
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- Make a decision.
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- Make a decision.
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- And remind yourself when you make a decision
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- That the lord is with me.
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- David was conscious of the fact that "god was with me when
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- I was out in the shepherd's field, and god's gonna be
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- With me right here in the midst of fighting goliath.
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- God is with me. the lord is with me."
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- I told our team, i said, "the lord is with us.
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- I believe that god wants us to have this meeting.
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- I don't believe god wants us to cancel."
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- And i got messages, people said, "cancel it," "postpone."
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- And at that time, people were postponing to 2022, 2023,
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- You know, "just cancel and postpone."
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- I said, "no, we're gonna have it, bless god."
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- You have to make up in your mind and know in the midst of
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- Challenges that the lord, what?
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- Is with you.
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- The lord is with me.
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- And that's what saul said.
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- Saul said, "hey, dude, you out there on your own.
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- May the lord be with you."
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- And i like what he says over in psalms 23:
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- "that thou art with me.
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- Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."
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- When we get a revelation of who's with us, we know
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- That we are never alone, so i can face the problem.
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- I can face the giants in my life.
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- I don't have to run.
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- I don't have to ignore them.
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- I don't have to hide.
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- I don't have to pretend like it's not there.
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- But i can face it just like david did.
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- I can stare it in the face just like david did because,
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- You know what?
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- I know that the lord has my back.
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- And if we going down, we're going down together,
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- Bless god, amen?
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- But ain't nobody going down.
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- So when everyone told david he couldn't fight goliath,
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- He replied that he had fought the lion and the bear.
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- Glory be to god.
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- You got to make up in your mind and get a revelation.
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- You got to get a revelation of this, and stop running, because
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- The devil will have you running all the days of your life.
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- You just running.
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- And i'm telling you, some of you just need to stop running.
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- Stop running.
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- "i can do this.
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- I'm bigger than this situation."
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- "greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world."
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- If i need to apologize, if i need to take responsibility,
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- If i messed up, hey, i'm not afraid of that.
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- I'll say that too.
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- But the enemy wants us to deceive ourselves, you know,
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- Keep deceiving yourself, keep running.
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- "you know you can't deal with that, you better run.
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- Here they come. ohhh."
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- No.
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- Sometime in your life, child of god, you've gotta make up
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- In your mind that i'm tired of running from the problems in my
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- Life, tired of running from the po-po man, from the repo man.
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- I'm tired now.
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- Tired of running from the debt collectors.
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- Hello, what do you want? i don't have the money.
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- I get the money, i'll pay you back.
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- Tired of running from you.
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- Let's face things, because it causes us to develop,
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- Causes us to get better.
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- Causes god to get involved and to intervene
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- In our everyday affairs.
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- I'm telling you, ooh, glory be to god.
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- Now, let's look at number three:
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- Make use of what you already have.
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- Look at what david did.
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- Make use of what you already have.
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- So many times, we think that we don't have what it takes,
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- We aren't that person who can overcome the giants.
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- We can't do it because we need something else.
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- We need to be another person.
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- We need to come in another way.
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- We need to have x, y, and z.
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- David didn't think about any of that.
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- In fact, when saul came to david and saul was trying to put
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- His armor on david, it just did not fit, it was too big,
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- It was not the right size.
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- So david said, "no, i can't.
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- I can't. this is not me.
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- I can't--i gotta take this off.
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- Give me my five smooth stones and give me my sling."
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- David had everything that he needed.
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- You have god.
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- You get the word and i'm telling you, you get the holy ghost to
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- Tell you what to do, you spend some time in prayer,
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- You get a word from the lord on what to do in situations,
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- How many of you know that's all you need?
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- He'll tell you whether to move forward,
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- He'll tell you whether to stop.
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- He'll tell you which direction to go in, if this is for you.
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- But make use of what you already have.
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- Look at 2 kings chapter 4, verse 2.
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- This is the woman who had lost her husband.
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- She had lost everything.
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- She said to the prophet that "you know, it's just me and
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- My son, and we're just gonna stay here and die."
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- And the prophet asked her, "what do you have in your house?"
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- You have to ask yourself, "what do i have?"
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- Obviously, this situation is coming into my life
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- For a reason.
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- So it's gonna make me stronger, it's gonna make me better,
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- It's gonna develop me or i will decide not to develop,
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- I will decide to shrink back.
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- I will decide to stay in the same situation, in fear,
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- In intimidation, in avoidance.
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- But she had to make the decision just like we do today,
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- To make use of what we have.
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- And the scripture says that "elisha said to her,
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- What shall i do for thee?
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- Tell me, what hast thou in the house?"
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- What do you have in the house?
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- It wasn't what she didn't have, it wasn't, you know, what she
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- Could be, it wasn't this fantasy of how, you know, something
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- Else had happened and that was the reason why.
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- He says, "no, woman, what do you have?"
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- "and she said, thine handmaid hath not any thing
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- In the house," nothing in the house.
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- Man of god, i have nothing in my house, "except a pot of oil."
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- And you know what?
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- That's the very thing that god used.
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- That's what saul had to understand with david.
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- "i don't have this armor, this big, you know,
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- Thing that i can put on me with all the artillery.
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- I got my smooth stones and that's what i know,
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- That's what i have.
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- And that's what i'm going to use."
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- And that's the very thing that god used to defeat goliath.
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- Regardless of the comparison in weight, daniel
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- Was a little small, tiny thing.
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- Regardless of the strength, the armory, the weapons, et cetera,
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- David didn't complain because of the differences,
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- Like the israelites would have.
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- He had a so-what attitude and let everyone in shock
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- After defeating goliath so effortlessly.
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- How many of you know we got to change the trajectory of our
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- Lives, change trajectory of our families, we've got to show up,
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- Start dealing with stuff, trust god, believe god, that
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- When we show up, that he's going to give us the means and
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- The knowledge and the ability to do what needs to be done.
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- Somebody say, "the lord is with me."
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- The lord is with you.
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- Let me give you a couple of scriptures
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- Here on the lord is with you.
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- Remind yourself of these.
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- Over in hebrews, chapter 13, verse 6,
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- Look at this in the amplified bible,
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- Hebrews chapter 13, verse 6.
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- Somebody say, "the lord is with me."
- 00:21:10.982 --> 00:21:15.454
- "the lord is with me." "the lord is with me."
- 00:21:15.454 --> 00:21:22.994
- "the lord is with me."
- 00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:29.234
- "so we take courage and we are encouraged and confidently and
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- Boldly say--" he said, "so we take comfort.
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- So we take comfort."
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- Take comfort.
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- I'm comforting myself in this gigantic situation.
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- I take comfort and i am encouraged, "confidently and
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- Boldly say, the lord is my helper; i will not be seized
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- With alarm [i will not fear or dread or be terrified].
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- What can man do to me?"
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- Turn to psalms 118, verse 6.
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- Psalms 118, let's look at this.
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- Verse 6:
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- "the lord is on my side."
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- Just like david out of revelation.
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- The lord is on my side, big brother.
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- The lord is on my side, saul.
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- The lord is on my side.
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- Whose side am i on?
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- I'm on the side of fear.
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- Am i on the side of dismay?
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- Am i on the--what side am i on,
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- Because the lord wants to be on our side.
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- We have to make a decision.
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- Choose whose side you're gonna be on when you deal
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- With the giants in your life.
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- You gotta make a decision.
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- Male announcer: are you trying to ignore the trouble spots
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- In your life?
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- In the midst of trials.
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- Taffi: he gives us solutions.
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- He doesn't leave us stranded,
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- He doesn't leave us in a place
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- Where we're worse off than where we were before.
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- You gotta make up in your mind,
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- "god will save me, god will deliver me, god will heal me."
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- There're answers that are waiting
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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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