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How To Overcome Procrastination

Creflo Dollar

November 1, 2020

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Creflo Dollar: I'm trying tochallenge you to come away from
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excuse making, come away fromprocrastination, be decisive.
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Don't wait till all theconditions are perfect.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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And I just believe that in thename of Jesus, that there's
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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."
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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?
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I mean, you know, I can hearsomebody saying, "I knew I was
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supposed to getmy life together.
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I intended on getting saved.
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I intended on coming to church."
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And then when the trouble hits,it's confusion like, "Oh, my
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God, what happened?"
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God saw that thing way beforeit got to you, had a way out,
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had a path.
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Procrastination kept you inthe place for the failure when
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cooperation with God was gonnamove you out of the path of it.
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You gotta decide, you gotta makeyour mind up to do the things
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you need to do.
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So remember, when they came toJesus and said that they were
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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?"
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He said, "Fill thewater pots with water."
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But that didn't make sense.
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I said we're out of wine.
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You want to put water inthe bottles, in the pots.
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We're out of wine, and you sayput water, but that didn't make
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sense to them.
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They needed wine, not water.
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They needed a miracle but itstarted with the, with them
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taking immediate action, anddoing whatever Jesus told them
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to do.
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I believe the HolySpirit lives in you.
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He lives in us, and he's njust been sent there so we can
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jerk or jiggle.
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He wants to guide us.
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He wants to speak to us.
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He wants to giveus instructions.
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He wants to give us a warningabout things that have not yet
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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.
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When he speaks, you should nothave this casual attitude of
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just kind of puttingit on the side.
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When he speaks, it needs tobe priority, put it on a sticky,
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put it on your refrigerator.
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That's a major piece in whateverGod's trying to do in your life.
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That's a major piecein your safety.
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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
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situation, that terriblesituation and when God said
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something could have stoppedthat particular situation.
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I remember when it was almost19 years ago, when I went to
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Sacramento, California, therewas a thing about preachers
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being people of their words.
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And I was teaching on integrity,and I wrote a book on integrity.
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And I was on my way toSacramento, and I heard the
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Spirit of God say, "Don't go."
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And I said to him, "Lord, butmy integrity is on the line."
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Think about it, I thoughtthis is so stupid.
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The Prince of integrityjust told me don't go.
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So I said, you know, Idon't--here I am talking to him.
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He tells me one thing and I'mlike, "No, I'm watching out
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for you.
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I want to be aman of integrity."
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But I wouldn't, I wouldn't letlike Jeremy I think was in high
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school, he wanted to go.
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And I'm like, you can't go.
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I said, your uncle Ken's gonnago with me because, you know,
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you know, he's an ex footballplayer, his body can take it.
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And I'm like, I can't believethat came out of my mouth.
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I'm like trying,what did I just say?
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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.
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And just really strangethings are happening.
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He had a new Suburban, thepreacher I was visiting, and I
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normally don't sit in the frontseat because I don't want to put
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my seatbelt on because Idon't want to wrinkle my coat.
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So, he talked me intogetting me in the front seat.
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So, I got in the front seat,so I put the seatbelt on.
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And we're riding and, you know,all of a sudden this car, runs
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the red light and the Suburbangoes airborne in front of these
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people, and itturns over and over.
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It literally knockedthe wheels off the tire.
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Minister Ken went out the sidebackdoor, almost probably 60
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yards or something, landed inthe windshield of this car at
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the other red light.
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So, you imagine this ladysitting there and a flying man
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comes through the car.
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And we turn over and over andover again, and all that
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stuff happens.
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And I asked myself, of course,the--I believe the blood of
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Jesus was over our lives becausewe took authority before
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we left.
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But did that have to happen?
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See, he was wayahead of the game.
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And if I had would've died,it wouldn't have been,
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"What happened?
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Oh, God, what happened?
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Why did God let this happen?"
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No, no, no, no, no.
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God said don't go.
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There was nocooperation on my part.
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I'm trying to have integrity.
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Now, that don't happen no more.
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I was in a situation, and Iwas on my way to Lagos and he
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said, "Don't go."
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I called him I said, "I'll paywhatever you paid on marketing,
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but I can't come, Godtold me not to go."
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And there was even strangethings there that happened.
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But he's--he knows what yourfuture has and if he takes the
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time to tell you, and to warnyou, and to talk to you, but he
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also can talk to youabout other things.
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"Buy that piece ofland right there."
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"But Lord, that ain't nothing."
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"Buy it."
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And you send a letter.
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Hmm, and thensomebody comes and says,
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"I'll give you ten timeswhat that's worth.
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I got to have this thingin order to get
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my project through."
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You didn't know it.
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What would happen in our life,where success is concerned, if
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we would start providingimmediate action to when the
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Holy Spirit starts speaking tous and telling us what to do?
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A lot of stuff wouldbegin to happen.
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Procrastination is anenemy to that success.
00:23:58.205 --> 00:24:01.876
Procrastination is an enemyto that type of progress.
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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
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didn't get what I deserved.
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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
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on all of this wonderful stuff.
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And I'm telling you, it justpays to listen and to cooperate
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with the Holy Spirit and notallow procrastination to keep
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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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