How To Overcome Procrastination
November 1, 2020
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- Creflo: I promise you, when youfind procrastination, you're
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- gonna probably find a lot ofmissed opportunities and a lot
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- of failure there.
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- And regardless of who we are,it's something that probably
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- requires our examination to makesure that procrastination hasn't
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- become a subtle part of yourlife and how you do what you do.
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- Let's begin in verse 5, SaintJohn 5, and verses 5 through 9.
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- He says, "And a certain man wasthere, which had an infirmity
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- thirty and eight years."
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- How many of you know that's along time to have an infirmary
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- for 38 years?
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- And he said, "When Jesus saw himlie, and knew that he had been
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- now a long time in that case,he saith unto him, Wilt thou be
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- made whole?"
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- Simple question, "Do youwant to be made whole?"
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- And he said, verse 7, "Theimpotent man answered him, Sir,
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- I have no man, when the wateris troubled, to put me into
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- the pool."
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- Now, I said to you before thatsome people, they really give,
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- they turn excuses into reason.
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- It's really an excuse, but theytry to turn it into their reason
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- and really, excuses are givenfor the whole purpose of the
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- fact that you really don't wantto do it, or you don't
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- believe it.
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- He says, "I don't have anybodyto put me in the water, in the
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- pool but while I'm coming,somebody else steps in front of
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- me," just more excuses.
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- Look what he says in verse 8,and this is what I want to talk
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- about tonight.
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- Jesus said unto him, "Rise,take up your bed, and walk.
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- Rise, take up yourbed, and walk."
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- Now, if there's one thing that'sgonna be responsible for change
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- in our life, it's when we takeimmediate action to do the thing
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- that God's revealed to us to do,or to do the thing that we know
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- we need to do.
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- I don't know about you, butthere are things that God makes
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- known to you and you just kindof, I mean, weeks go by and you
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- don't do it, and I can't helpbut to wonder what if you would
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- have applied immediate action tothe thing that you knew to do?
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- And so, it's what I hear Jesussaying here, "Rise, take up your
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- bed, and walk," I hearhim saying, "Do it now."
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- I hear him saying,"Get up, take a step."
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- That's what he's tryingto get the guy to know.
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- You see, the excuses paralyzedhim and nothing was gonna change
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- until he did something now.
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- Do something youhaven't been able to do.
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- I believe that's when somethingsupernatural will begin
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- to happen.
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- You do what you cando in the natural.
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- You do what you can do in thenatural and then what happens is
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- God will add his super to yournatural, and you will experience
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- supernatural results.
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- This deal about just do nothingand, you know, I'm under grace
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- and something supposed tohappen, I truly believe, I just
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- really believe, and please don'tmisunderstand what I'm saying.
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- I'm talking about when the HolySpirit has put something in your
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- heart, he's trying to lead, andguide, and direct your life, and
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- we do nothing.
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- He said, "Get up, takeup your bed, walk."
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- Jesus was ready forhim to be healed.
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- He wasn't ready to step into it.
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- So, this is what I'm talkingabout, don't confuse striving
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- and performance basewith what I'm saying.
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- This is core operation withwhat has already been done.
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- You know, faith has to what?
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- Take possession of whatgrace has already made.
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- So sometimes, it's something sosimple as forgiving someone, or
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- something so simple as givinga gift to someone, or giving an
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- offering to God, or somethingso simple as, you know, praising
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- God when you don't feel like it.
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- Something so simple, as, youknow, just the small things that
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- the Spirit of God is leading youto do and the things you know
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- to do.
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- So, don't worry ifthe progress is slow.
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- Forget about what you haven'tbeen able to do up until now and
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- just be willing to cooperatewith the Holy Spirit as he leads
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- and guides your life, amen?
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- So, what's stopping you?
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- The question, "You know,can I really change?
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- Can I really change?"
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- I know that comes up a lot.
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- "Can I really do this?"
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- Now, you may not believe thingscould have ever changed in your
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- life, but he does.
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- He believes you can and that'swhy he's leading you, and
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- guiding you, and speakingto you, and inspiring you.
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- Some of you have had dreams, youknew it was God, and I just kind
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- of wonder what's on the otherside of me cooperating with what
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- the Spirit of God is clearlyplacing on my heart to do.
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- I mean, God sent us the HolySpirit so he can be a guide into
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- our lives.
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- So, you know, under the law,you know, you know that you're
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- supposed to do this with yourspouse, but under grace he
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- starts guiding youthrough those things.
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- He starts guiding you throughthose arguments, and guiding you
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- through those disagreements.
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- He tells you, he told meone time he says, "Don't say
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- nothing, just shut your mouth.
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- Don't say nothing.
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- Just hug her and be quiet."
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- You know it worked?
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- I said, "God, youknow your stuff."
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- He said, "I've been doingthis for thousands of years."
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- Okay, so when this particularman in John chapter 5 started
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- making excuses saying, "I haveno man," the first thing Jesus
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- said, "Rise, take up yourbed, your pallet, walk."
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- Jesus started givinghim directions.
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- I believe the Holy Spirit wantsto lead and guide you and give
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- you directions.
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- How many of you are open tothe Holy Spirit directing your
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- steps, amen?
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- And that was Jesus giving himdirections, and the way to break
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- out of failure in life and theinability to change in life is
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- to take, watch this,immediate action.
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- What is the HolySpirit saying to do?
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- Sometimes we try to sit and tryto, you know, go through here
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- and he knows better.
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- And the more you do it, theeasier it becomes to begin to
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- cooperate and allow him to lead,and to guide, and direct
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- your life.
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- So, a sure way to failure and aninability to change, a sure way
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- to failure and an inabilityto change is something
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- called procrastination.
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- If you want to--if youabsolutely want to be a failure,
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- procrastinationwill get you there.
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- If you absolutely are not goingto change and just kind of stay
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- the same, procrastinationwill get you there.
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- Let me give you thedefinition of procrastination.
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- It means putting off immediateaction or to put off doing
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- something that you cando today for tomorrow.
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- It's, you know, especially outof habitual carelessness, or
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- dare I say, laziness.
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- And there is an element oflaziness that's involved in
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- procrastination, putting offimmediate action, the thing I
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- can do now, the thing I cando today, I do it tomorrow.
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- The Holy Spirit shows up inyour prayer time and he says,
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- "Listen, I'd like to meet youeveryday about six o'clock.
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- I just want to havesome fellowship time."
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- Not as a rule that's requiredfor me to bless you, but he's in
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- it for the relationship.
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- He's relational.
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- I want to say some thingsto you that will bless you.
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- You'll say some thingsto me that will bless me.
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- And we say, "Okay,Lord, I'll do it."
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- And then a week goes by, and twoweeks go by, and before you know
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- it, it's not being done.
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- So, when a situation happens inyour life or you come to this
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- area of your life, andyou're like what happened?
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- And I'm thinking I can't helpbut think, man, man, on the
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- other side of what he told me todo, and that's the thing, what
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- was it on the other side that myprocrastination, along with my
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- excuses, paralyzed me?
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- And so, there are really threereasons for procrastination.
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- Let's just jump inthis, you ready?
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- Three reasons forprocrastination, number one,
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- indecisiveness, indecisiveness.
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- We can't make up ourminds about what to do.
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- And indecision is something,that as a Christian you don't
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- want to carry and sometimes yourindecision can affect almost
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- anything you want to do.
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- You make up your mind to dosomething with your spouse, but
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- you're so indecisive aboutthings, then y'all never end up
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- doing anything.
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- And so, you know,procrastination would
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- become the reason.
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- I mean, "I don't know what todo, so I procrastinate the point
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- and it doesn't happen.
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- So, indecision, indecisivenessis a reason for procrastination.
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- Number two, perfectionism,perfectionism.
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- Often we won't do anything untilwe think we can do everything.
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- And so, if I can't do it withperfection, then I just, I just
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- won't bother with it.
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- And procrastinationis a result of that.
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- Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 11,verse 4 in the Amplified Bible,
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- Ecclesiastes chapter 11, verse4 in the Amplified Bible.
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- You know, the perfectionistsays, "If I can't do it the way
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- I want to do it, thenI just won't do it."
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- And it's not that he shouldn'tdo that thing, it's just
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- procrastination is a resultof his perfectionism.
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- Look what he says here inEcclesiastes 11 and verse 4, 11,
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- verse 4.
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- He says, "He who observes thewind, and he waits for all
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- conditions to be favorable."
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- You see that?
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- He says he will not sow.
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- "And he who regards theclouds, he will not reap."
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- So, now he's procrastinatingin his sowing, which is now
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- affecting his harvest, why?
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- Because he says, "I'm not gonnagive until all the conditions
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- are favorable."
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- And I don't give when allthe conditions are favorable.
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- The time I'm really motivatedto give when nothing's
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- favorable, okay?
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- And then he says, then he won'treap, verse 4, stay there,
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- that's the only one.
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- He won't reap becausehe's regarding the clouds.
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- He's so busy looking at it, youknow, you know what's going on
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- with the clouds.
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- Notice, waiting on everythingto be perfect, waiting on
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- everything to be favorable.
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- Perfectionism causes you tooperate in procrastination.
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- So, you have indecisiveness,you have perfectionism, and then
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- three, as I said before, thisis tied into procrastination,
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- laziness, laziness.
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- I don't want to put forththe effort to change.
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- I know I need to change, Ijust don't want to do it.
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- I don't want to put forththe effort to change.
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- So, people in their hearts knowwhat they should do, they have
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- good intentions of doing itbut they keep putting it off.
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- And how many of you know that,you know, we don't do things by
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- good intentions.
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- I mean, "One day, I'mgonna get in shape."
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- You know, you know you need to.
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- "You know, one day I'm gonnastop eating like this."
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- You know you need to.
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- You know, "One day, I'm gonnado this," and it just it's--you
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- don't want to call it laziness,and I want to be bold enough to
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- say you're lazy because youknow to do some things, you just
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- won't do it.
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- You just won't do it, and thenyou make a excuse that becomes
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- your reason for not doing it.
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- "Well, the doctor saidmy sugar level high."
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- It should be, youeat a lot of sugar.
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- "Well, that ain'tthe only cause."
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- Whatever, keep finding moreexcuses, instead of trying to
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- find a way.
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- So, you can make an excuse oryou can find a way to do what
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- needs to be done.
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- It's insanity to think you cankeep doing the same thing and
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- expect different results.
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- You have no right toexpect different results.
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- You're doing the same thing.
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- Listen to me carefully, I havegood intentions and someday I
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- plan as, I plan on being, youknow, cooperate, cooperative
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- with the Holy Spirit and workingwith the Holy Spirit, but nah,
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- nah, that's the attitudeof a lot of people.
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- Good Intentions do not equalyour cooperation with the
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- Holy Spirit.
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- It will never equal that.
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- So, you have to understand thatno one is rewarded for
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- good intentions.
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- You don't get rewardsfor good intentions.
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- I just say to people changeisn't change until
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- you've changed.
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- Change isn't change because youhad a conversation about change.
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- Change isn't change becauseyou prayed about change.
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- Change isn't change 'cause youlooked the definition up and you
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- wrote a wholepaper about change.
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- It's not changeuntil it's changed.
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- And so likewise, whereintentions are concerned,
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- there's no profitin good intentions.
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- What does the Bible say aboutthe way the pathway to hell is
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- paved with good intentions.
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- It's gonna be filled with alot of people that had
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- good intentions.
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- Hospitals are filled with alot of people that have
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- good intentions.
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- Graveyards are filled withpeople that had good intentions.
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- You follow what I'm saying?
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- People that are--a lot of peopleare in jail when they
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- had good intentions.
- 00:16:07.268 --> 00:16:09.670
- I taught along these lines yearsago and a prisoner came up to me
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- says, "Doc, if I'd have heardthis before, I wouldn't
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- be here."
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- I had intentions, doesn't work.
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- I'm trying to challenge you tocome away from excuse making,
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- come away fromprocrastination, be decisive.
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- Don't wait till all theconditions are perfect.
- 00:16:27.722 --> 00:16:30.291
- Refuse to be lazy, and watch Godcome in and begin to take you to
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- places that you areprobably now dreaming about.
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- And so, everything starts withone simple act, one simple
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- decision that says that if Godsent the Holy Spirit to lead and
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- guide me, I'm gonnacooperate with him.
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- I'm gonna cooperate with him.
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- If he said something to me,you better believe that's gold.
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- Listen, there's always the otherside of what he said to you.
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- It's real breakthrough, it'sreal breakthrough when you
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- hear God.
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- The breakthrough, breakthroughdoesn't come necessarily from
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- the Word of God.
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- It comes from a Word from God.
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- And when the Holy Spirit'staking the time to direct you,
- 00:17:12.900 --> 00:17:15.837
- then the Holy Spirit's takingthe time to speak to you, and
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- even correct you, or evenrebuke you, that's amazing.
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- That's a huge, huge part ofsomething that's getting ready
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- to be--to breakloose in your life.
- 00:17:26.114 --> 00:17:29.684
- And I just believe that in thename of Jesus, that there's
- 00:17:29.717 --> 00:17:32.720
- something powerful gonna happenbecause we're gonna be people
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- that say, "You knowwhat, Holy Spirit?
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- Wherever you leadme, I'll follow."
- 00:17:37.558 --> 00:17:40.428
- Used to have an old Methodistsong we used to sing in church.
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- ♪ Where he leads me,I will follow ♪
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- ♪ I'll be somewhere ♪
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- I think it was,
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- ♪ Listening for his name ♪
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- ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪
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- ♪ I'll be somewhere, somewhere ♪
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- Creflo: You know, I don'twant to be in hell trying to
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- listen for his name, okay?
- 00:17:54.242 --> 00:17:57.278
- I mean, you know, I can hearsomebody saying, "I knew I was
- 00:17:57.311 --> 00:18:00.581
- supposed to getmy life together.
- 00:18:00.615 --> 00:18:01.983
- I intended on getting saved.
- 00:18:02.016 --> 00:18:04.352
- I intended on coming to church."
- 00:18:04.385 --> 00:18:07.989
- And then when the trouble hits,it's confusion like, "Oh, my
- 00:18:08.022 --> 00:18:11.626
- God, what happened?"
- 00:18:11.659 --> 00:18:13.227
- God saw that thing way beforeit got to you, had a way out,
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- had a path.
- 00:18:18.366 --> 00:18:19.800
- Procrastination kept you inthe place for the failure when
- 00:18:19.834 --> 00:18:25.773
- cooperation with God was gonnamove you out of the path of it.
- 00:18:25.806 --> 00:18:30.178
- You gotta decide, you gotta makeyour mind up to do the things
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- you need to do.
- 00:18:33.481 --> 00:18:34.849
- So remember, when they came toJesus and said that they were
- 00:18:34.882 --> 00:18:38.019
- out of wine in that wedding thatJesus went to, what did he tell
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- them to do?
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- Listen, listen, listen, listen,"We're out of wine, what do
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- we do?"
- 00:18:46.227 --> 00:18:47.962
- He said, "Fill thewater pots with water."
- 00:18:47.995 --> 00:18:51.199
- But that didn't make sense.
- 00:18:51.232 --> 00:18:53.668
- I said we're out of wine.
- 00:18:53.701 --> 00:18:55.169
- You want to put water inthe bottles, in the pots.
- 00:18:55.203 --> 00:18:58.906
- We're out of wine, and you sayput water, but that didn't make
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- sense to them.
- 00:19:02.443 --> 00:19:03.878
- They needed wine, not water.
- 00:19:03.911 --> 00:19:05.213
- They needed a miracle but itstarted with the, with them
- 00:19:05.246 --> 00:19:08.416
- taking immediate action, anddoing whatever Jesus told them
- 00:19:08.449 --> 00:19:13.554
- to do.
- 00:19:13.588 --> 00:19:15.590
- I believe the HolySpirit lives in you.
- 00:19:15.623 --> 00:19:18.025
- He lives in us, and he's njust been sent there so we can
- 00:19:18.059 --> 00:19:21.195
- jerk or jiggle.
- 00:19:21.229 --> 00:19:22.563
- He wants to guide us.
- 00:19:22.597 --> 00:19:24.332
- He wants to speak to us.
- 00:19:24.365 --> 00:19:26.067
- He wants to giveus instructions.
- 00:19:26.100 --> 00:19:27.935
- He wants to give us a warningabout things that have not yet
- 00:19:27.969 --> 00:19:31.939
- come to your place and if it'sany place where we talk about in
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- needing immediate action,it's when he speaks.
- 00:19:36.177 --> 00:19:40.815
- When he speaks, you should nothave this casual attitude of
- 00:19:40.848 --> 00:19:43.251
- just kind of puttingit on the side.
- 00:19:43.284 --> 00:19:45.620
- When he speaks, it needs tobe priority, put it on a sticky,
- 00:19:45.653 --> 00:19:48.723
- put it on your refrigerator.
- 00:19:48.756 --> 00:19:50.558
- That's a major piece in whateverGod's trying to do in your life.
- 00:19:50.591 --> 00:19:53.060
- That's a major piecein your safety.
- 00:19:53.094 --> 00:19:57.098
- I don't believe that somebodyjust goes out and just dies.
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- I believe if you back it up,rewind, somewhere between that
- 00:20:01.235 --> 00:20:05.706
- situation, that terriblesituation and when God said
- 00:20:05.740 --> 00:20:10.945
- something could have stoppedthat particular situation.
- 00:20:10.978 --> 00:20:15.049
- I remember when it was almost19 years ago, when I went to
- 00:20:15.082 --> 00:20:19.020
- Sacramento, California, therewas a thing about preachers
- 00:20:19.053 --> 00:20:22.356
- being people of their words.
- 00:20:22.390 --> 00:20:24.525
- And I was teaching on integrity,and I wrote a book on integrity.
- 00:20:24.558 --> 00:20:28.195
- And I was on my way toSacramento, and I heard the
- 00:20:28.229 --> 00:20:33.968
- Spirit of God say, "Don't go."
- 00:20:34.001 --> 00:20:36.404
- And I said to him, "Lord, butmy integrity is on the line."
- 00:20:36.437 --> 00:20:42.109
- Think about it, I thoughtthis is so stupid.
- 00:20:42.143 --> 00:20:45.179
- The Prince of integrityjust told me don't go.
- 00:20:45.212 --> 00:20:51.686
- So I said, you know, Idon't--here I am talking to him.
- 00:20:51.719 --> 00:20:54.355
- He tells me one thing and I'mlike, "No, I'm watching out
- 00:20:54.388 --> 00:20:56.524
- for you.
- 00:20:56.557 --> 00:20:57.958
- I want to be aman of integrity."
- 00:20:57.992 --> 00:20:59.827
- But I wouldn't, I wouldn't letlike Jeremy I think was in high
- 00:20:59.860 --> 00:21:05.232
- school, he wanted to go.
- 00:21:05.266 --> 00:21:07.368
- And I'm like, you can't go.
- 00:21:07.401 --> 00:21:09.270
- I said, your uncle Ken's gonnago with me because, you know,
- 00:21:09.303 --> 00:21:12.206
- you know, he's an ex footballplayer, his body can take it.
- 00:21:12.239 --> 00:21:15.409
- And I'm like, I can't believethat came out of my mouth.
- 00:21:15.443 --> 00:21:18.346
- I'm like trying,what did I just say?
- 00:21:18.379 --> 00:21:20.448
- So, we get up, we get down, wefly there, we get there and get
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- up in the morning.
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- We say our confessions, wepray, spend time with the Lord.
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- We clothe ourselves likewe've done for years.
- 00:21:29.290 --> 00:21:33.427
- And just really strangethings are happening.
- 00:21:33.461 --> 00:21:36.097
- He had a new Suburban, thepreacher I was visiting, and I
- 00:21:36.130 --> 00:21:40.868
- normally don't sit in the frontseat because I don't want to put
- 00:21:40.901 --> 00:21:43.304
- my seatbelt on because Idon't want to wrinkle my coat.
- 00:21:43.337 --> 00:21:47.942
- So, he talked me intogetting me in the front seat.
- 00:21:47.975 --> 00:21:50.745
- So, I got in the front seat,so I put the seatbelt on.
- 00:21:50.778 --> 00:21:53.748
- And we're riding and, you know,all of a sudden this car, runs
- 00:21:53.781 --> 00:21:59.353
- the red light and the Suburbangoes airborne in front of these
- 00:21:59.387 --> 00:22:04.258
- people, and itturns over and over.
- 00:22:04.291 --> 00:22:07.895
- It literally knockedthe wheels off the tire.
- 00:22:07.928 --> 00:22:11.465
- Minister Ken went out the sidebackdoor, almost probably 60
- 00:22:11.499 --> 00:22:16.036
- yards or something, landed inthe windshield of this car at
- 00:22:16.070 --> 00:22:19.974
- the other red light.
- 00:22:20.007 --> 00:22:22.042
- So, you imagine this ladysitting there and a flying man
- 00:22:22.076 --> 00:22:23.944
- comes through the car.
- 00:22:23.978 --> 00:22:26.414
- And we turn over and over andover again, and all that
- 00:22:26.447 --> 00:22:29.483
- stuff happens.
- 00:22:29.517 --> 00:22:32.153
- And I asked myself, of course,the--I believe the blood of
- 00:22:32.186 --> 00:22:36.590
- Jesus was over our lives becausewe took authority before
- 00:22:36.624 --> 00:22:39.627
- we left.
- 00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:41.796
- But did that have to happen?
- 00:22:41.829 --> 00:22:44.131
- See, he was wayahead of the game.
- 00:22:44.165 --> 00:22:47.468
- And if I had would've died,it wouldn't have been,
- 00:22:47.501 --> 00:22:49.370
- "What happened?
- 00:22:49.403 --> 00:22:50.771
- Oh, God, what happened?
- 00:22:50.805 --> 00:22:52.239
- Why did God let this happen?"
- 00:22:52.273 --> 00:22:53.641
- No, no, no, no, no.
- 00:22:53.674 --> 00:22:55.042
- God said don't go.
- 00:22:55.075 --> 00:22:57.044
- There was nocooperation on my part.
- 00:22:57.077 --> 00:22:59.547
- I'm trying to have integrity.
- 00:22:59.580 --> 00:23:02.082
- Now, that don't happen no more.
- 00:23:02.116 --> 00:23:06.454
- I was in a situation, and Iwas on my way to Lagos and he
- 00:23:06.487 --> 00:23:09.256
- said, "Don't go."
- 00:23:09.290 --> 00:23:10.658
- I called him I said, "I'll paywhatever you paid on marketing,
- 00:23:10.691 --> 00:23:13.561
- but I can't come, Godtold me not to go."
- 00:23:13.594 --> 00:23:16.964
- And there was even strangethings there that happened.
- 00:23:16.997 --> 00:23:19.834
- But he's--he knows what yourfuture has and if he takes the
- 00:23:19.867 --> 00:23:25.539
- time to tell you, and to warnyou, and to talk to you, but he
- 00:23:25.573 --> 00:23:29.043
- also can talk to youabout other things.
- 00:23:29.076 --> 00:23:30.911
- "Buy that piece ofland right there."
- 00:23:30.945 --> 00:23:33.781
- "But Lord, that ain't nothing."
- 00:23:33.814 --> 00:23:35.282
- "Buy it."
- 00:23:35.316 --> 00:23:36.684
- And you send a letter.
- 00:23:36.717 --> 00:23:38.252
- Hmm, and thensomebody comes and says,
- 00:23:38.285 --> 00:23:39.653
- "I'll give you ten timeswhat that's worth.
- 00:23:39.687 --> 00:23:42.223
- I got to have this thingin order to get
- 00:23:42.256 --> 00:23:43.891
- my project through."
- 00:23:43.924 --> 00:23:45.292
- You didn't know it.
- 00:23:45.326 --> 00:23:46.694
- What would happen in our life,where success is concerned, if
- 00:23:46.727 --> 00:23:49.363
- we would start providingimmediate action to when the
- 00:23:49.396 --> 00:23:52.800
- Holy Spirit starts speaking tous and telling us what to do?
- 00:23:52.833 --> 00:23:55.870
- A lot of stuff wouldbegin to happen.
- 00:23:55.903 --> 00:23:58.172
- Procrastination is anenemy to that success.
- 00:23:58.205 --> 00:24:01.876
- Procrastination is an enemyto that type of progress.
- 00:24:01.909 --> 00:24:06.313
- Procrastination is an enemyto that type of safety,
- 00:24:06.347 --> 00:24:09.116
- and preservation.
- 00:24:09.149 --> 00:24:11.752
- And I just thank God that hewas merciful and kind enough I
- 00:24:11.785 --> 00:24:16.857
- didn't get what I deserved.
- 00:24:16.891 --> 00:24:18.926
- And, you know, had Idied in that wreck,
- 00:24:18.959 --> 00:24:20.928
- I would have been dead foralmost 20 years and missed out
- 00:24:20.961 --> 00:24:24.398
- on all of this wonderful stuff.
- 00:24:24.431 --> 00:24:27.434
- And I'm telling you, it justpays to listen and to cooperate
- 00:24:27.468 --> 00:24:32.172
- with the Holy Spirit and notallow procrastination to keep
- 00:24:32.206 --> 00:24:36.911
- you in places that will keep youon the outside of your success.
- 00:24:36.944 --> 00:24:41.315
- Creflo: God has so muchthat he wants to do for you.
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