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Taffi Dollar - Life's Battles Are Real But So Is Your Victory

August 29, 2025 | S E | 28:54

Taffi Dollar - Life's Battles Are Real But So Is Your Victory
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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - Life's Battles Are Real But So Is Your Victory | August 29, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Taffi dollar: the size of the battle doesn't have anything
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  • To do with our god.
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  • God is big.
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  • He is bigger than any giant, he is bigger than any problem,
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  • He is bigger than any circumstance, he is big.
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  • We're not talking about a little god.
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  • Some of y'all's gods is too small.
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  • That's the problem right there.
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  • You think your god can't do anything.
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  • You think you gotta help god along, you think that it's
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  • About, you know, your part and then god doing his part, no, god
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  • Is big he doesn't need you.
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  • If you think that you can't overcome, if you think you can't
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  • Win, you think you can't come out of that thing,
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  • Your god is too small.
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  • Creflo dollar: hopefully you're gonna choose to let
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  • Heaven determine your thinking because whatever choice you
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  • Make, then that's gonna be your mentality for the day.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a way-maker, yes!
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low, yes!
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  • ♪ this is your world ♪
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  • Taffi: you know, we've been living in what the bible calls
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  • One of the most dangerous times and the difficult times.
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  • And so that's what we want to understand is that believers
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  • Have a walk before them, a walk that's victorious but isn't
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  • Always going to be easy.
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  • And so, you know, we can do these things.
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  • We can have what the bible says we can have, we can do what the
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  • Bible says we can do and we can be all that he wants us to be.
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  • And so, i wanna start off with this joke and there was one
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  • Afternoon where a guy and his wife walked into a pet store to
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  • Purchase some goldfish food.
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  • The man seeing a beautiful green parrot walked over through the
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  • Bird to admire its fine feathers.
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  • The bird said, "hey man, your wife sure is ugly."
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  • The man was furious and complained to the owner.
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  • He went to the owner of the store and he says, "do you know
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  • What your bird just said to me?"
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  • The owner went over to the parrot, took it out of the cage,
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  • Slapped it around, said, "you better not
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  • Talk to my customers like that.
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  • This is your last chance you did this before, next time i'm gonna
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  • Get rid of you and take you back to the shelter."
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  • He then put the bird back in the cage.
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  • The man and his wife walked past the bird
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  • On their way out of the store.
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  • The parrot looked back at him and said, "you know."
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  • So this morning, you know, it's got some difficult times ahead.
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  • We see just, you know, the rifts of all the things that are
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  • Taking place, inflation and increase
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  • Of interest rates and going down.
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  • Just all kinds of things.
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  • So, you know, but we win in spite of all that's going on
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  • 'cause we know what we have, amen.
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  • So we're gonna look at the new living translation quite a bit
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  • This morning.
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  • You know, pastor's been hanging around in that translation so i
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  • Figured i'd give it a try and found some good nuggets that i
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  • Believe will help us today.
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  • So the body of christ should begin to prepare for great
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  • Trials and testing that lies ahead so that we will not be
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  • Caught or taken in a trap when things begin to occur.
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  • So i wanna begin with this statement this morning, i want
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  • You to take really good notes here on this point.
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  • "battles are real to life but much more real is your triumph
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  • And your victory in them."
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  • Battles are real.
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  • We don't make light of that.
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  • Look at what he says over in ecclesiastes, the book of
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  • Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 12 in the nlt.
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  • I would be unjust and a liar and a hypocrite if i got up here and
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  • Said that there are no battles in life.
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  • Life is full of opportunities, obstacles and challenges.
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  • If we live long enough, then we'll understand these things.
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  • And so he says here in ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 9,
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  • He says, "people can never predict
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  • When hard times might come."
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  • People can never predict when situations--i never would've
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  • Known the things that have happened, a pandemic, and losing
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  • Loved ones such an accelerated rate.
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  • All the things that happen people can never predict.
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  • No one ever expected that to happen.
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  • When hard times might come, he says, "like fish in a net or
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  • Birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy,"
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  • "caught by sudden tragedy."
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  • So battles, somebody say, "battles."
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  • Battles and obstacles are real to life.
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  • And some of you, i'm not telling you anything new but just so
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  • That we understand that as believers,
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  • This is a part of our christian life.
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  • And not to say that we are bad christians or we're doing
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  • Something wrong when we experience battles and obstacles
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  • In our life, no, that is a part as we just saw here in the
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  • Scripture that hard times will come.
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  • And so, we can look at what it says here
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  • In john chapter 16 verse 33.
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  • Turn there in the amplified.
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  • I wanna just walk us through some of the scriptures that
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  • Remind us of who we are and we can understand that, this
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  • Morning as we're talking about faith under pressure that
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  • There's gonna be some pressurous times, some difficult times but
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  • We find comfort in what the scripture says here in the
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  • Amplified of john chapter 16, right here
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  • In the 33rd verse.
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  • It says, "i have told you these things,
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  • So that in me you may have [perfect] peace.
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  • In the world you have tribulation and distress and
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  • Suffering," but look at what it says, "but be courageous, [be
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  • Confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]."
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  • And you know why he says that?
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  • Right here, because it says, "i have overcome the world.
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  • [my conquest is accomplished.]
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  • "so he has already accomplished everything
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  • That we are dealing with in this life.
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  • He says, "my conquest is accomplished."
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  • He's already run to the end of the race, he's already
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  • Seen the end of this thing.
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  • It's just like the book of revelations where we have to
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  • Look over there and understand that we win.
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  • The conquest is accomplished, it's already ours available.
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  • The triumph, the victory.
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  • We have to begin to see the end of the thing.
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  • Not to get caught up in the midst of the challenge, right in
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  • The midst of the present moment, but to understand
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  • That there is an end.
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  • That this too shall pass and this thing will come to pass in
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  • Our life because it's already been accomplished.
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  • And so we don't just, you know, pitch a tent and stay right
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  • There and camp right in the middle of the circumstance, but
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  • We understand that it has been accomplished.
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  • And he says, "my victory abiding."
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  • So he says, "be of good cheer, be courageous because his
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  • Victory is abiding."
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  • So battles and obstacles are real to life, but much more real
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  • Than the battle that's real, is your victory.
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  • Much more real is your triumph, much more real is the conquest.
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  • Those things are real.
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  • We don't make light of the fact and ask that you go around and
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  • Act like things don't exist and ignore situations in our life.
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  • No, we don't try to minimize or say that these things aren't
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  • Real, but we declare that much more real is our victory.
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  • You may be in pain this morning but much more real
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  • Is your healing.
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  • You may be in a difficult situation, much more real is the
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  • Restoration and the wholeness and the deliverance.
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  • Much more real because the battles are temporary.
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  • Those are the things that we have to go through
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  • To get to the other side.
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  • Those are the things that we have to overcome and be willing
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  • To stand and having done all to stand to stand therefore.
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  • And understanding that we have what it takes to go through this
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  • Thing, you know why?
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  • Because we have jesus on the inside of us.
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  • There's that supernatural strength.
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  • I was looking at the scripture last night it just blessed me.
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  • It talked about how, i think it was elijah,
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  • How he overran the chariot.
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  • God gave him supernatural speed.
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  • God will give you supernatural strength in
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  • The midst of test and tribulations.
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  • I'm telling you, whatever it is you're dealing with today,
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  • There's a supernatural strength that will outlast
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  • Your natural strength.
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  • God got on elijah to the point that he ran
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  • Faster than the horses.
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  • And you know, that has to be the power of god because for a man,
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  • A human being to be able to outrun an animal that could go
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  • Twice as fast as a man but you know what?
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  • That grace, that ability began to get over his life and as a
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  • Result, he just began to experience the supernatural.
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  • You think that someone were crazy if you saw an individual
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  • Just outrunning a car to the red light.
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  • You think, "what in the world?"
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  • But that's what this is, that's what we're talking about.
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  • We're talking about how god will cause us to supernaturally,
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  • Supernaturally be able to not put up with, but i'm telling
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  • You, to come out on the other side with
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  • Not even a smell of smoke.
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  • You don't look like you've been drugged through and you know,
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  • Come out the ringer but i'm talking about like daniel did in
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  • The lion's den.
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  • He came out, glory be to god.
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  • And the power was all over him, the glory was all over him, the
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  • Goodness was all over him.
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  • He just had to begin to testify that this is the lord's doing.
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  • "this is the lord's doing and it's marvelous in my eyes."
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  • That's how god will begin to get the glory where we're confident
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  • That in this world we're gonna have some battles in life, but
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  • Much more real than the battles are our victory 'cause our
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  • Victory is assured today.
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  • Somebody say, "my victory is assured today."
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  • So your victory is assured.
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  • He says over in psalms 34 verse 19.
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  • Let's look at this in the amplified.
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  • Let's look at this in the amplified translation.
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  • Psalms 34 verse 19, glory be to god.
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  • He says, "many hardships," "many hardships
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  • And perplexing circumstances confront the righteous."
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  • I could begin to write a book over the different hardships and
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  • Perplexing circumstances.
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  • I'm sure many of you can too because there is a devil loose
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  • And that devil wants to do everything that he can to give
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  • Us an opportunity to throw in the towel,
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  • To cave in and to quit.
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  • But we are not quitters.
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  • We got stand power.
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  • We have the ability to outlast opposition.
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  • We have supernatural strength, we have supernatural grace, we
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  • Have all that we need to win in this life.
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  • And so he says that, "there'll be many hardships
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  • And perplexing circumstances."
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  • But look at what he says, "but the lord rescues him
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  • Or her from them all."
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  • I said, he's a rescuer this morning.
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  • My god, you can be determined to go off on the cliff just don't
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  • Know maybe you're in ignorance, maybe situations just something
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  • That came back from the past but i'm telling you,
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  • He'll get you right off that cliff.
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  • His grace, his mighty hand, the hand of the lord will just begin
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  • To come along and scoop you up and say, "here my child,
  • 00:15:05.607 --> 00:15:09.478
  • I have a plan for your life.
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  • I have a good plan for you."
  • 00:15:11.981 --> 00:15:14.650
  • And so he says, "but the lord rescues them,"
  • 00:15:14.650 --> 00:15:20.155
  • "rescues him from them all."
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  • Some of you may have children who are, you know, gathering
  • 00:15:25.194 --> 00:15:28.530
  • Testimony, doing what they want to do, but you know what?
  • 00:15:28.530 --> 00:15:33.168
  • I find confidence.
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  • Confidence in the scripture that says that "he will rescue him
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  • And he will rescue them, he'll rescue us all."
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  • Glory be to god.
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  • He is a rescuer.
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  • I said, he is a rescuer.
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  • Some of y'all know that it wasn't but the lord, if it were
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  • Not for the lord, you would not be here today.
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  • Rescuing you from yourself, rescuing you from your mess,
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  • Rescuing you from your craziness, rescuing you from
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  • Your rebellion, rescuing you from bondages
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  • And addictions in your life.
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  • I'm telling you this morning, he is a rescuer.
  • 00:16:14.043 --> 00:16:19.982
  • Some of us didn't even know we needed
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  • To be rescued, just living life.
  • 00:16:21.984 --> 00:16:28.690
  • And all of a sudden, his goodness
  • 00:16:28.690 --> 00:16:31.160
  • Just begins to manifest.
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  • And then in the midst of it all, he just begins
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  • To reveal and to show his plan.
  • 00:16:37.166 --> 00:16:40.903
  • Now look over at 1 peter chapter 4, verse 12.
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  • We're gonna look at this from two translations.
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  • 1 peter 4, verse 12.
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  • I'm gonna look at it from the amplified and we also want to
  • 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:54.950
  • Look at it from the message translation 'cause we've been
  • 00:16:54.950 --> 00:17:00.222
  • Talking about battles, we've been talking about how you know,
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  • We have to show up when we looked at how david
  • 00:17:04.626 --> 00:17:07.496
  • Showed up for the battle.
  • 00:17:07.496 --> 00:17:09.098
  • You can't win any battle that you're not willing
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  • To show up for.
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  • You can't run, you can't hide, you can't act like it doesn't
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  • Exist, you gotta show up and then you can't run was what we
  • 00:17:16.205 --> 00:17:21.143
  • Talked about last time.
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  • Don't run from the battle.
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  • You don't have any reason to run.
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  • The goliath was strutting around, he was trying to
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  • Intimidate them in the midst of everything that was going on to
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  • Make them think that, you know, he was bigger than anything else
  • 00:17:32.921 --> 00:17:37.493
  • There, he was bigger than god.
  • 00:17:37.493 --> 00:17:39.528
  • And so, you know, we have to remind ourselves of who we are
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  • And what it is that we have on the inside of us to not be
  • 00:17:45.234 --> 00:17:49.838
  • Afraid that we are bigger than our fears.
  • 00:17:49.838 --> 00:17:54.042
  • The size of the battle doesn't have anything
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  • To do with our god.
  • 00:17:56.778 --> 00:17:59.181
  • God is big.
  • 00:17:59.181 --> 00:18:00.516
  • He is bigger than any giant, he is bigger than any problem, he
  • 00:18:00.516 --> 00:18:04.186
  • Is bigger than any circumstance, he is big.
  • 00:18:04.186 --> 00:18:09.391
  • We're not talking about a little god.
  • 00:18:09.391 --> 00:18:12.427
  • Some of y'all's gods is too small.
  • 00:18:12.427 --> 00:18:16.098
  • That's the problem right there.
  • 00:18:16.098 --> 00:18:17.499
  • You think your god can't do anything.
  • 00:18:17.499 --> 00:18:20.502
  • You think you gotta help god along.
  • 00:18:20.502 --> 00:18:22.337
  • You think that it's about you know your part and then god
  • 00:18:22.337 --> 00:18:26.074
  • Doing his part, no, god is big he doesn't need you.
  • 00:18:26.074 --> 00:18:29.244
  • If you think that you can't overcome, if you think you can't
  • 00:18:29.244 --> 00:18:33.315
  • Win, you think you can't come out of that thing,
  • 00:18:33.315 --> 00:18:35.851
  • Your god is too small.
  • 00:18:35.851 --> 00:18:40.722
  • And so we have to look at the perspective in our lives and
  • 00:18:40.722 --> 00:18:45.494
  • Begin to realize that he is jehovah, he is el elyon, he is
  • 00:18:45.494 --> 00:18:52.634
  • Jehovah gmolah, he is jehovah nissi, he is jehovah ropheka, he
  • 00:18:52.634 --> 00:18:57.706
  • Is god, he is big and he will do what needs to be done.
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  • All he wants us to do is to trust him, to realize that our
  • 00:19:02.344 --> 00:19:08.584
  • Victory is assured, our victory is accomplished,
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  • Our victory belongs to us.
  • 00:19:14.056 --> 00:19:18.160
  • So it says in 1 peter chapter 4 verse 12, "beloved, do not be
  • 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:23.398
  • Surprised at the fiery ordeal," 'cause sometimes we just
  • 00:19:23.398 --> 00:19:31.907
  • Surprise, good god.
  • 00:19:31.907 --> 00:19:35.544
  • But you know, we have to remind ourselves, "okay lord, okay
  • 00:19:35.544 --> 00:19:38.647
  • Lord, help me not to be surprised 'cause
  • 00:19:38.647 --> 00:19:41.717
  • I had not expected this."
  • 00:19:41.717 --> 00:19:44.353
  • So he says, "beloved, do not, do not."
  • 00:19:44.353 --> 00:19:50.993
  • You know you got teenagers why are you surprised that they
  • 00:19:50.993 --> 00:19:55.163
  • Gonna start liking hormones and stuff?
  • 00:19:55.163 --> 00:19:59.101
  • Don't--he says, "do not be surprised."
  • 00:19:59.101 --> 00:20:04.406
  • You know, you married that person, why are you surprised
  • 00:20:04.406 --> 00:20:10.345
  • When it start getting a little rocky?
  • 00:20:10.345 --> 00:20:12.981
  • That's what marriage is, it's work.
  • 00:20:12.981 --> 00:20:15.784
  • It's gonna get rocky sometimes.
  • 00:20:15.784 --> 00:20:20.589
  • You know, you at that job you know, you know that corporate
  • 00:20:20.589 --> 00:20:26.795
  • Can be very messy and political.
  • 00:20:26.795 --> 00:20:30.699
  • He says, "do not, do not be surprised."
  • 00:20:30.699 --> 00:20:35.304
  • Amen.
  • 00:20:35.304 --> 00:20:37.139
  • "beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal
  • 00:20:37.139 --> 00:20:46.848
  • Which is taking place."
  • 00:20:46.848 --> 00:20:49.051
  • We can just put a period right there.
  • 00:20:49.051 --> 00:20:52.321
  • Can we just put a period right there, "that is taking place."
  • 00:20:52.321 --> 00:20:55.791
  • He says, "don't be surprised, beloved."
  • 00:20:55.791 --> 00:20:59.394
  • 'cause it's going to take place.
  • 00:20:59.394 --> 00:21:01.730
  • It's going to happen.
  • 00:21:01.730 --> 00:21:04.566
  • In this world you gonna have some tribulations, some tests,
  • 00:21:04.566 --> 00:21:08.103
  • And some trials.
  • 00:21:08.103 --> 00:21:10.339
  • You're gonna have people to talk about you, you're gonna have
  • 00:21:10.339 --> 00:21:13.442
  • Folks who may just, you know, do all kinds of things.
  • 00:21:13.442 --> 00:21:17.546
  • But he says, "it is going to take place," you know why?
  • 00:21:17.546 --> 00:21:21.817
  • To test you, to try you.
  • 00:21:21.817 --> 00:21:26.688
  • People are gonna try you.
  • 00:21:26.688 --> 00:21:30.659
  • He says, "that is to test the quality of your faith."
  • 00:21:30.659 --> 00:21:37.666
  • What's the quality of your faith?
  • 00:21:37.666 --> 00:21:40.535
  • Does your faith just disappear when hard times come?
  • 00:21:40.535 --> 00:21:44.239
  • Does your quality of your faith, you know, you don't act like a
  • 00:21:44.239 --> 00:21:48.343
  • Christian anymore when the fiery ordeal, well you just turn into
  • 00:21:48.343 --> 00:21:51.646
  • A whole different person.
  • 00:21:51.646 --> 00:21:54.082
  • It's like, no, what's the quality of your faith?
  • 00:21:54.082 --> 00:21:58.820
  • Because that faith comes from god, it's the god kind of faith
  • 00:21:58.820 --> 00:22:03.158
  • That is on the inside of us.
  • 00:22:03.158 --> 00:22:04.960
  • That faith that can move a mountain, he says, "just a
  • 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.430
  • Mustard seed faith."
  • 00:22:08.430 --> 00:22:10.732
  • If we believe and not doubt in our heart, we shall have
  • 00:22:10.732 --> 00:22:14.903
  • Whatever we believe.
  • 00:22:14.903 --> 00:22:17.205
  • So it is designed to test the quality of your faith as though
  • 00:22:17.205 --> 00:22:24.413
  • Something strange or unusual were happening to you.
  • 00:22:24.413 --> 00:22:28.850
  • Look at what it says in the message translation as though
  • 00:22:28.850 --> 00:22:32.354
  • Something were happening to you.
  • 00:22:32.354 --> 00:22:35.123
  • He says, "friends, when life gets really difficult,"
  • 00:22:35.123 --> 00:22:42.297
  • Really difficult.
  • 00:22:42.297 --> 00:22:45.233
  • "these kids are trying me, lord jesus,
  • 00:22:45.233 --> 00:22:48.670
  • Thank you for your patience."
  • 00:22:48.670 --> 00:22:50.338
  • "when life gets difficult, friends," he says, "don't jump
  • 00:22:50.338 --> 00:22:55.310
  • To the conclusion that god isn't on the job."
  • 00:22:55.310 --> 00:23:03.218
  • God is on the job.
  • 00:23:03.218 --> 00:23:06.321
  • He hadn't left the throne.
  • 00:23:06.321 --> 00:23:08.890
  • I said, god is on the job.
  • 00:23:08.890 --> 00:23:13.762
  • He's on the job, what are we doing?
  • 00:23:13.762 --> 00:23:17.799
  • Are we on the job, or are we mia?
  • 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:22.170
  • We abandon.
  • 00:23:23.371 --> 00:23:25.474
  • "lord, this too much.
  • 00:23:25.474 --> 00:23:27.175
  • This battle, this is too much of an obstacle.
  • 00:23:27.175 --> 00:23:30.479
  • This is too much of a difficult circumstance."
  • 00:23:30.479 --> 00:23:33.114
  • He says, "don't be surprised.
  • 00:23:33.114 --> 00:23:39.354
  • Don't think that this is unusual."
  • 00:23:39.354 --> 00:23:44.125
  • He says here, don't jump to the conclusion that god isn't on the
  • 00:23:44.125 --> 00:23:48.497
  • Job, because when hard times come,
  • 00:23:48.497 --> 00:23:50.365
  • We think that god isn't on the job.
  • 00:23:50.365 --> 00:23:52.834
  • No, he wants us to look to him.
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