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The Power of Confessions Part 2

Creflo Dollar

August 20, 2020

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Coming up next on"Changing Your World."
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Creflo Dollar: We don'tcall away things that exist.
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We call things intoexistence that don't exist.
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That's the key there.
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You know, don't spend timetrying to call away your debt
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or--that exists.
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Don't spend time trying to callaway your marital problem
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that exists.
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Don't spend time trying tocall away racism that exists.
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Call those things that don'texist and they'll come and get
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rid of the thingthat does exist.
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That's the powerof confession, man.
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Creflo: Now, I wanna talk toyou about something that it came
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up in my thinking and cameup in my heart years ago.
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Have you ever said some of thethings that God says about you
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and then later on feltlike the biggest liar ever?
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I remember doing it.
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I remember, you know, you know,when I wasn't being successful
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and I learned about confessionsand I'd open my mouth up and
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say, "Well, praiseGod I'm successful."
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And I just felt like I'm thebiggest liar
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because I wasn't at the time.
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But I was taught and trained,well, you need to say it anyway.
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You need to agree with God.
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And I felt likethe biggest liar.
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And I know peoplelike that today.
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They refrain from confessingGod's Word because they wanna
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try to do something to line upwith God's Word
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before they say it.
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And I wanna dealwith that a little bit.
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Go to Romans chapter3, verses 3 through 4.
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You see, God doesn't see you theway you are, but God sees you
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the way the Word says you are.
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Let me say that again.
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God doesn't see you the way youare; God sees you the way the
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Word says you are.
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Huh, man, that got me.
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I'm thinking, wait a minute, hedoesn't--and he--this is God.
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This is how he does.
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He doesn't see me a failure.He doesn't see me broke.
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He doesn't see me sick.He doesn't see me depressed.
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He sees me the way theWord says that I am.
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And so I started looking back atsome Scriptures and I was seeing
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these little areas where Godwas sliding this truth in.
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Verse 3 and 4 says: "Forwhat if some did not believe?"
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What if some didn't believe?
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I mean, I come up to you now,say, you know,
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"You're already healed."
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"What if some did not believe?
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Shall their unbelief make thefaith of God without effect?"
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Absolutely not.
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So some don't believe becausethey're, like, "Well, you know,
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you're saying this but right nowI feel like I am this," and God
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says, "If some don't believeit's still not gonna make the
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Word of God of no effect."
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And verse 4 says: "God forbid:yea, let God be true,"
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this is cool.
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"Let God be true,but every man a liar."
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"Let God be true andevery man a liar."
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So, basically, what he's sayingis you take what God has to say
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about it and you take what youhave to say about it and,
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he says, God be true.
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Says, God--let God be true.
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Or, you know, you're goingthrough this and you trust God,
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you think, but you're like,"Well, I don't know
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if I can believe that."
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But God has alreadyestablished it in his Word.
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Let God be true.
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So in every situation where youmight be saying something that
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doesn't line up with the Word,he says, "Let the Word of God
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be true even thoughthe circumstances
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does not line up with it.
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Let the Word be true andlet the Word be true."
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Let the Word be true.
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Let God be true.
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Now look at this.
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Go to James 3:14.
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This is important.
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I believe that you change yourfacts--you change the facts
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that don't agree withGod's Word in your life.
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I think that'swhat has to happen.
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You got certain facts in yourlife but those facts may not be
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the truth of God.
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See, a person who is in fear hasoppression--has oppression--a
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person that's in fear and aperson has oppression,
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will usually say stuff like, youknow, "I'm lying if I say
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I'm far from oppression."
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You know, Isaiah 54 and 14 saysthat we're far from oppression
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and fear and some people maysay, "Well, I'm lying if I say
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that because I'm inoppression and I'm in fear.
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I can't go around saying I'm farfrom oppression and fear does
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not come near me.
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I'm lying if I say that."
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But this is what God said inJames 3:14: "But if you have
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bitter envying and strife inyour heart, glory not,"
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and watch this.
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"And lie not against the truth."
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Lie not against the truth.
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If the truth says that you'redelivered from oppression
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and fear, don't you goand say, "No, I'm not."
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Lie not against the truth.
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Boy, that reallycaught my attention.
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"Lie not against the truth."
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What does the truth have to say?
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What does the truth have to say?
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"Well, Brother Dollar,you don't understand.
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I'm just not--I'm just--I'moppressed and I'm full of fear."
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You're lying against the truth.
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You're lying against the truth.
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"Well, I'm sick andI'm about to die."
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You're lying against the truth.
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Oh my gosh.
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See, there are many facts aboutyour life that don't agree with
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God's Word.
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It might be truethat you are fearful.
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It might be true thatyou are under oppression.
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Those may be facts in your lifebut don't lie against the truth
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that God speaks about you.
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The Word of God is the truth.
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God says that you are far fromoppression, and God says that
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fear does not come near you.
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God sees you that way.
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So God's Word istruth before it happens.
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Think on that now.
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God's Word is truthbefore it happens.
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It doesn't have tohappen for it to be true.
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It's true 'cause he said it.
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Yeah, you know, when Abrahambelieved God and God said in
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Genesis, he said, "You'rerighteous," Abraham wasn't
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righteous because hedid something right.
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He was righteous'cause God said it.
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You see, understand that.
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God's Word is truthbefore it happens.
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And he said, "Abraham, you'rerighteous," before he even did
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anything righteous.
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Why was he righteous?'Cause he said it.
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Why are you and Irighteous right now?
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'Cause he said it.
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Why are we here right now?
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'Cause he said it.
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Why are we delivered right now?
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'Cause he said it.
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"Well, I'm still stuckin that same bondage."
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No, no, no, no, don'tlie against the truth.
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"Well, well, I'mstill oppressed."
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No, no, no, don'tlie against the truth.
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God's Word is truebefore it happens.
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Whoo, praise God.That's good.
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See, I've always understood thatthere's a difference
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between fact and truth.
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It may be a fact according tothe x-ray that you have cancer.
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But the truth is what God saidand he said, "By his stripes
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you're healed."
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So now you're gonna have to makea decision, "Am I gonna hang out
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with the fact and then meditateon it until it kills me?
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Or am I gonna switch overregardless of the fact and hang
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out with the truth and it'llheal me," 'cause that's the
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truth before it even happens.
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Before healing ever happens inyour body, it's the truth that
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with his stripes you are healed.
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There are some lying vanities.
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I was really shocked andremember this in Jonah.
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There are some lying vanitiesand here's what the Word of God
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has to say about lying vanities.
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If you'll look in Jonah chapter2 and 8, he says that "they that
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observe lying vanitiesforsake their own mercy."
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They're so busy observing lyingvanities and the vanities of
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this world that theyforsake their own mercy.
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So you've got to understand now,"So what do I do with all this?"
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You confess, "I am far fromoppression, and fear does not
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come near me."
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You confess, "With hisstripes I am healed."
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You confess that"I am successful."
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You confess what God has to sayabout it, even though it hasn't
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manifested in your life.
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You make that confession.
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That's what you say, praise God.
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You confess it, praise God.
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You confess,"Coronavirus is over right now."
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You confess, "Praise God ourcountry's being healed and in
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Jesus's name there'll beunity like never before."
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You confess.
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You confess the Word of God.
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Someone may say, "Well, youwould be lying if you said that
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when you were--if you saidsomething like that when you
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were really fearful."
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No, I'm speaking the truth.
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It may not be true in my lifeyet but that's the reason I'm
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saying it.
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The reason I'm saying it'cause it's not true in my life.
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Are you listening to me?
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I'm calling the thingsthat be not to manifest.
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I'm calling the thing that isnot manifest, I'm calling it so
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it can manifest.
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Are you listeningto what I'm saying?
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So, "Well, you're notspeaking the truth."
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Well, it may not be true in mylife but that's why
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I'm saying the Word of God.
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That's why I'mspeaking the truth.
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That's why I'mconfessing the truth.
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That's really whatconfession is all about.
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It is calling things thatare not as though they were.
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It's calling things thatare not as though they were.
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You're not healed so you'reconfessing what you're not.
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You're saying, "I'mhealed," when you're not healed.
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You're saying, "I'm delivered,"when you're not delivered.
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You're saying you're prosperouswhen you're not prosperous.
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You're saying you're the headand not the tail
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when you're not.
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That's what confession is for.
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It's to release creative powerto change those things
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that are not to line up withthe truth of God's Word.
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Even God did this.
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Look at Romans chapter 4:17.
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And we are called in the bookof Ephesians 5
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to be imitators of him.
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And in Ephesians chapter5--'scuse me, Romans 4 and 17,
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he says, "As it is written, Ihave made thee a father of many
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nations, before him whom hebelieved, even God--even God,
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who quickeneth the dead, andcalleth those things which be
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not as though they were."
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God looked at darknessbut he said, "Light."
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See, he called things thatwere not as though they were.
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Look at 1 Corinthianschapter 1, verse 26 and 28.
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God'll use the things that arenot to change
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the things that are.
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And this is awesome power andauthority that we, as Christian
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people, have and we'vegot to start using it.
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We've got to start, youknow--we've got to say "peace"
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when there's not peace.
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Glory be to God.
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We got to say "deliverance"when there's not deliverance.
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That's what we doas Christian people.
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But we turned it into such afad, we just kind
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of forgot about it.
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Now watch this, 1 Corinthians1:26, 28: "For you see your
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calling, brethren, how that notmany wise men after the flesh,
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not many mighty, notmany noble, are called."
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Verse 27: "But God has chosenthe foolish things of the world
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to confound the wise; and Godhas chosen the weak things of
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the world to confound the thingswhich are mighty; and base
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things of the world, and thingswhich are despised, hath God
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chosen, yea, and things whichare not, to bring to nought,"
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or zero, "things that are."
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He says he'll use things thatdon't exist, things that are
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not, and he'llchange things that are.
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Boy, that's powerful.
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That's powerful.
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He's gonna take things that areand change them with things that
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are not.
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Praise God.
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And that's why I'mspeaking his Word.
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That's why I'mmaking confession.
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That's the power in confessionthat I can begin to call things
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that are not, I can speakto chaos and say, "Peace."
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Jesus did it, didn't he?
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He was on the boat and there wasa storm going and the disciples
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woke him up and there was nopeace on that water until Jesus
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changed the hurricane withsomething
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that didn't exist: peace.
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That's powerful.
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That's somethingthat's noteworthy.
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That's noteworthy.
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You take that and meditate onthat and begin
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to operate it in your life.
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Now, see, here's whatyou don't wanna do.
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He didn't say, "Don't callthings that are as though
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they were not."
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That's what some people do.
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I met this lady in way back,maybe 30, close 40 years ago,
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and we were going out to arestaurant and she knew Taffi
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and I and she broke her arm.
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And I ask, I say,"How's your arm?"
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She says, "It's not broke.
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It's not broke."
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Well, I knew what she wastrying to do but it was wrong.
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Don't call things that areas though they were not.
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She was trying to callher broken arm away.
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No, the broken arm existed.
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We don't call awaythings that exist.
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We call things intoexistence that don't exist.
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That's the key there.
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You know, don't spend timetrying to call away your debt
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or--that exists.
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Don't spend time trying to callaway your marital problem
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that exists.
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Don't spend time trying tocall away racism that exists.
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Call those things that don'texist and they'll come and get
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rid of the thingthat does exist.
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That's the powerof confession, man.
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That's the power of confession.
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We call things that are not.
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We call things that are not.
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Look around in yourlife and see what's not.
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We call things that are not.
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What do we callthings that are not?
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As though they were.
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As though they were.
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That's what we do.
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That is the power that we havebeen graced by God to release.
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That is the power that we haveby the Almighty God to release,
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hallelujah, praise God.
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It'll change somethings in your life.
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You see, death and life isin the power of the tongue.
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And we have got to startpaying attention to what we say.
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Or we could end up beingtrapped by what we say.
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Look at Proverbs 11, verse 3.
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Proverbs 11 and verse 3.
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This will reallyhelp you out, man.
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Hallelujah, somebody says,"Well, you sound
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like you're excited."
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I am.I am.
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I'm determined that I don'tfight against flesh and blood.
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I do my fighting in the Spiritand I have authority that's been
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given to me by the grace of Godto change things,
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to see things change.
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And I'm asking, you know,100.000 of you Christians
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to join me, praise God.
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We're gonna start speakingthe right things, praise God.
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We're gonna start calling thingsthat are not
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as though they were.
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And we're not gonna be callingthings away that are, amen.
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Proverbs 11 and verse 3 says:"The integrity of the upright
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shall guide them: but theperverseness of transgressors
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shall destroy them."
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Now I was interested to find outwhat did he mean when he used
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that word "perverseness"?
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Perverseness iscrooked and contrary speech.
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Crooked and contrary speech.
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So he says, "The crookedand contrary speech of the
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transgressorshall destroy them."
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They are destroyed bycrooked and contrary speech.
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Speaking the very opposite ofwhat you mean, is what he's
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talking about.
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Speaking the veryopposite of what you believe.
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And sometimes what we do, youknow, like, we'll see a little
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bitty Chihuahua and we say,"Look at that big old dog."
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Well, like, I mean,that's contrary speech.
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You're speaking somethingcontrary
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to what really is there.
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That big old dog.
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And then you're speakingsomething you don't even
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believe.
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"I'll tell you what, boy.
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I about to die whenthat man fell like that."
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No, you--that kind of talk rightthere, it'll stop up some stuff.
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We really shouldn't speakanything that we don't desire to
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come to pass orthat is not our will.
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Are you speaking things that youdon't desire to come to pass?
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I mean, do you really wantsomebody to tickle you to death?
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Are you speaking thingsthat you don't really mean?
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I'm learning to say what youmean and mean what you say.
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Now, nobody's perfect at thisbut what do we do with this?
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You don't let it beat you upand condemn you and go into the
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works of the flesh andset up your program.
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You just simply go before God,say, "God, help me not to speak
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perverseness.
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Help me to be sensitive to speakwhat I mean and what I believe."
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And when you begin to do that,then you begin to--your Spirit
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begins to become sensitive tothe fact that I don't have to
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pause because sometimes you'resaying something and I don't
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know if you really wantthat to happen or not.
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And so that's importantthat we understand that.
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No perversenessor crooked speech.
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And then in Proverbs 18 andverse 21, Proverbs 18 and verse
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21, he says, "Death andlife are in the power of the
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tongue--death and life are inthe power of the tongue: and
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they that love it shalleat the fruit thereof."
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It's important for you tounderstand that this tongue in
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your mouth is so powerful, itwould do you good for you to
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learn how to use it properlyso you could reap good benefits
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from it.
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Again, I go back to thatthing of, you know, some people
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saying, you know, "What youdon't know won't hurt you," and
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yet when you don't know aboutwhat we're talking about here
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tonight, it'll kill you.
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It'll cause you to be sick.
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It'll keep you poor.
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It'll keep your marriage somessed up that it'll eventually
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break up.
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It'll--you've got to understandthat you release words that will
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produce death, words that willturn on the death cycle or you
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can release words that willproduce life, words that will
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turn on the life cycle.
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It also is connected to wherethe Bible says that "I place
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before you life or death,a blessing or a cursing.
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You choose."
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I believe he'stalking about words.
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I believe he's talking about theopportunity, "I place before you
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life and death,blessings or cursing.
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You choose," and then hesays, "If you don't know what to
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choose," he gives you a hint.
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"Choose life so that youand your seed can prosper."
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How do I choose life?
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I choose life byloading life in my mouth.
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I choose death byloading death in my mouth.
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And this is a everyday choice.
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It's an everyday choice and youmay have to start off by just
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biting your tongue so you don'trelease words out of your mouth
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that will come in and then visityou the, you know, soon and
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thank God for his grace.
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I'm sure we've had an abundanceof grace that we didn't see a
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lot of stuff thatwe said, praise God.
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I'm sure we've had abundance ofmercy that a whole bunch of bad
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stuff that maybe couldhave, should have, would have
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happened, it didn't happen.
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Thank God for his graceand thank God for his mercy.
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But it doesn't mean that Icompletely ignore wanting to be
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able to operateeffectively in this authority.
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And so I go before Godand I say, "Lord, I have
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a relationship with you.
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Help me to speak life.
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Help me to fill myheart with life.
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Help me to fill my heartwith the Word of life
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so that I can see life.
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Praise God.
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Crooked speech means less faith'cause you're spending more time
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speaking perverseness and verylittle time
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speaking words of faith.
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So many times, we have nullifiedour faith by crooked speech,
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by contrary speech, andthank God for his grace.
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Thank God for his mercy.
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But my prayer is, is that we getbetter at this, that this is a
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way that we walk in seriousauthority on this planet,
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but we can't ignore this power.
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What a powerful tool.
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What a powerful grace-givenauthority that what happens is I
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just believe if--when Godcontinues to help us to do this,
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then we'll start seeing thingsmanifest a lot quicker
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than what we see 'em.
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Because our confession becomesintense and hot and he gives us
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quick, quick response.
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And that's why I taughtthis to you.
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I just want to train and teachyou in some of the basics so
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that you can understand how toapply those things in your life
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right now even in the midst of apandemic, even in the midst of a
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lot of hurt and a lot of pain.
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People are hurt,people are full of pain.
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You know, people are hurtbecause they've lost loved ones
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and they're broken and they'rejust in disbelief about a lot of
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things and my heart goes out andI'm, like,
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"God, how can I help 'em?"
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And it's just by abiding whatI've been called to do,
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teach you.
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Teach you there's a better way.
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Teach you that there's anauthority, there's a way that we
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can speak that can shape yourattitude, that can shape your
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emotions, that can get you in aposition where you can see God
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work in your life and you canexecute the life of the Spirit
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that God has given to you.
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And remember, we arefighting in the unseen realm.
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We're fighting--we're fightingthings that can't be seen.
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We're not fightingflesh and blood.
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We're fighting principalitiesand powers and wicked spirits
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That's what we're fighting.
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