Ron Carpenter

Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 3)

April 1, 2026 | 27:29

Atlanta, GA Pastor Rod Parsley hosts Pastor Mark Vega from Mark Vega Ministries, Pastor R.J. Matthews from Kingdom Vision International Church, Pastor Ed Ramirez from Harvest Outreach Ministry, Pastor Ron Carpenter from Redemption Church and music by Breakthrough Praise Team.

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Ron Carpenter | Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 3) | April 1, 2026

- when david was running from saul,
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The bible says he went into a cave
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Called the cave of adullam.
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It means the place of the squeeze.
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And the bible says he was with 400 men in that cave.
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They were broke, they were in debt,
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And they were bitter, and they were disgruntled.
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And they came out years later.
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And guess what those same 400 men were?
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They're called david's mighty men.
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Because he went into an environment that was bitter,
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That was broke, that was negative,
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But he did not become his environment.
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He came in there and changed the environment
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Because he was a light, he was city,
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And he was the salt for that environment to change it.
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Put up ephesians two,
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And then i'll go to ephesians 4:7.
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For by grace.
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Remember, favor and grace are the same.
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Grace means unmerited favor.
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It means god doing something for you you don't deserve.
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Okay.
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For by grace you have been saved.
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Okay.
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Your whole relationship with god begins with favor.
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God didn't have favor on you once you got right.
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God had favor on you when you still live in crazy.
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God had favor on you when you didn't even like him
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Or maybe even acknowledge him.
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You had favor with god.
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That's how this works.
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Favor's undeserved.
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It's unexplained.
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It's not rational.
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So we could have been out living any old crazy way,
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But you got saved.
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Why, because god looked on you and you had favor with him.
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So the whole relationship starts with favor,
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Not of yourselves.
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It is the gift of god.
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Verse nine, not of works lest any man should boast.
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Now go to ephesians 4:7.
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But to each one of us, grace was given
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According to the measure of the gift.
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So favor is given according to the measure of the gift.
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Let me break that down. okay?
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You got saved through the favor of god.
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Now you will continue to walk through a journey of favor
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To the same measure as the purpose that is on your life.
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That's why you can't ever compare your favor
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To somebody else's.
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It'll make you the worst kind of person.
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It'll make you a favor hater,
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Because you'll be judging by,
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Did god do more for me than he did for them?
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And did he open more doors for me?
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Am i at a higher place?
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Am i further along in life than him?
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And the bible says
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Do not compare yourselves amongst yourselves.
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Because if you do that, that's not wise.
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Why is that not wise?
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Because i could feel like i'm all right
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Because i'm way ahead of you,
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But i could be far below my potential,
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And i have missed my potential because i was all right
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Just because i was a step ahead of you.
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The only thing you ever compare yourself against
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Is your potential.
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You don't ever compare yourself to anybody else ever.
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So it ain't, is my church or my ministry as big?
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What is my potential and am i maximizing that potential
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On a daily basis?
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And god...
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Listen up, you got saved by favor
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And favor will continue to the same measure
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Of the purpose that's on your life.
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Okay?
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If i took you to hebrews four,
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It said, let us come before the throne room of god
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In our time of need, listen, to obtain mercy and find favor.
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So favor is a journey.
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In other words, god didn't just have salvation for you.
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God has got a lifelong string of things
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That you don't deserve, it is unexplained,
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And there's no rationale behind it,
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But he's gonna do it for you, and it is personal to you.
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Can't nobody else get your favor.
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It's only your favor.
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It's things god wants to do.
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It's your life.
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Touch a neighbor, say, "it's your life."
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Come on, it's your life.
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It's not anybody else's.
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It's yours.
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Okay, that is my five-minute review.
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So father, bless your word in jesus' name.
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And everybody said, amen and amen.
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Let me teach today. let me teach.
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Thank you, terence.
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I'm gonna give you a few verses out of genesis 37
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That begins to talk about joseph.
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Throw that up there if you would please.
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Now, israel, his father loved joseph
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More than all his children.
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Uh-oh.
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That's the beginning of trouble right there,
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Because he was the son of his old age
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And he made him a tunic of many colors,
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A coat of many colors.
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But when the brothers saw that their father
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Loved him more than all of his brothers,
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They hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
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It is very difficult to make peace
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With people who have war in their heart, very, okay.
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Some people, there's just no peace with 'em.
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So, is there next verse right here?
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Let's go into the next.
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Now move on to verse 18.
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When they saw their brother from afar off,
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Even before he came near,
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They conspired against him to kill him.
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Now, for those of you that are unfamiliar with the story,
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Joseph had two dreams.
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Both the dreams were about his brothers bowing down to him.
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Probably don't need to tell 'em that dream.
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If you have that dream, just kinda keep that to yourself.
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That's not gonna go well
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Because there ain't no siblings wanting to hear
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They're gonna bow down to any brother or sister.
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But he had two dreams and his problem was
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He spoke his dreams.
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Y'all, there's so much.
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I'm having a hard time really preaching today
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'cause i showed hope in the back.
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I said, "my problem today is i just got way too much stuff."
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One of the things you need to understand
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Is you can't share your dream with everybody,
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Okay?
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Because some of you, the fact that you have a dream,
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You're hated because that is an indictment
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Against the fact they don't have one.
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Some people, it's not that you're accomplishing your dream.
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It's just that you have one.
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They're mad that you have one
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Because they have not woken up that morning with a plan.
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They've not woken up with something
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That energizes them with passion internally
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And causes them to chase and move toward purpose.
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They don't wake up with that,
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And so that when they hear you communicating
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That you do have something like that,
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It is an indictment against the fact
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They feel like their life is not moving.
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And so they may not hate you,
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But they hate the dream that you have
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And they hate the fact that you have one.
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So don't take it personal.
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If you are a person with big ambitions and big dreams
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You feel like god has put in your heart,
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Everybody's not gonna stand on the sideline
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And clap while you talk about it.
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Amen.
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"well, pastor, you're wrong.
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Everybody loves me."
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Okay.
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You just keep on living on living.
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Okay, you just ain't lived long enough yet.
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Okay.
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Next verse. did i miss any of verses?
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They said to another,
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"look, the dreamer's coming."
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By the way, that's a huge compliment.
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The dreamer's coming.
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Come therefore, now let's kill him and cast him into a pit,
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And we shall say some wild beast has devoured him.
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We shall see what becomes of his dream.
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See, it's not him.
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We take it so personal.
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I had to learn this.
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I really am. god, i tell you.
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I'm a pretty nice guy, i hope.
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I'm a nice guy.
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I like people and i want to be liked.
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Okay?
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So i used to take it personal,
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So deeply personal,
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Almost like grieving and having a funeral
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If somebody didn't like me,
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'cause i thought about
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I've done everything i can to be likable
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That i don't understand why they don't like me.
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Okay?
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And
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I always had something in me
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That i thought god wanted to use me to do
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That had never been done before.
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I wasn't old enough and mature enough to know
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Not everybody celebrates that,
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'cause there are people that are in love with mediocrity.
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- [congregant] you preaching me.
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- i know i'm preaching.
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(congregation applauding)
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They love mediocrity.
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Mediocrity has a system.
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They are comfortable with that system,
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And they do not want that system challenged.
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I went into the deep south.
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All the spanish people go to spanish church.
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All the african american go to african american church.
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All the asians go to asian church.
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All the white people go to white church.
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And me and hope rolled in there 35 years ago and said,
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"we're gonna have a multicultural church."
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You know what, everybody didn't like us
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Because when we started multiculturalism
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And it went from hundreds to thousands, what are you doing?
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They said, "you taken from our community."
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And so guess what?
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Whenever we went out to eat at the pastor's conference,
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We sat at table by ourself.
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Why? because i had a dream.
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Hope had a dream that god was gonna do something different,
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But the dreamer isolates you.
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Okay?
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And i had to realize, i thought they didn't like ron.
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It ain't that they didn't like ron.
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They didn't like ron's dream.
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(congregation applauding)
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See, this is coming out totally different
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Than the first service.
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They threw him in a pit. why?
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They'll try to create something around you
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To kill what's in you.
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(congregation applauding)
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They put him in a pit.
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They didn't wanna kill him.
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"let's not kill him.
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I don't wanna kill him.
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I wanna kill his dream."
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So when you got a dream,
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You gotta understand when people are throwing you here,
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Throwing you there, selling you out, betraying you,
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The more trouble you go into,
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The more value your dream has.
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Come on, somebody.
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So don't you ever, ever, ever sell out your dream.
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I'm prophetic now.
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I'm out of my notes. i'm totally prophetic.
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This is what i just heard the lord say.
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He said, "speak to these people."
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Some people are...
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You are so needy for relationships
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That you're compromising your dream just to have friends.
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(congregation applauding)
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And i heard the lord say
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He's got a whole nother group of friends for you
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That when you write the vision and make it plain,
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He has some people that when they hear it and read it,
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They're gonna run with you.
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The reason you are frustrated
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Is, the people around your circle now,
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They can't run with the thing that's on the inside of you,
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But that doesn't mean god doesn't have a circle.
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It just means you ain't found that circle yet,
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And there's one group that'll hate on your dreams,
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But there's another group
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That'll run with you with your dreams.
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And if you ain't hit that group yet, just keep on walking.
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Hallelujah.
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(upbeat music)
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(dramatic music)
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Favor is not just the way you meet god.
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Favor is your entire benefit package with god.
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When god gets you a word,
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Very rarely does he give you details.
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He just starts giving you a framework
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Of how it's gonna take.
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So he'll take a run,
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And hope carpenter, who got a little warehouse,
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And he let a prophetic word
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Come through someone to us and said,
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"i'm gonna take y'all one day
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And i'm gonna give you a voice
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And let redemption speak to the nations."
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I don't know what that looks like.
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I don't know about san jose.
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I don't know what "you're gonna speak to the nations"
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Even mean.
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Can i be explained?
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- hope that you've been joined this word
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On "the favor effect."
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You know what, the bible says
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That when the sower sows the seed, which is the word of god,
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That it goes upon the ground.
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So there's many types of ground.
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That's actually the condition of a person's heart,
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But the bible says, when it falls upon good ground,
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An open heart, ready, hungry,
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Passionate for the word of god,
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That it can produce a harvest 30, 60, and a hundred fold.
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May these words...
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May you be good ground.
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May this be great word,
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And may it fall into your heart,
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And may god do something so amazing.
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You know what, i told people, i said,
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I want the word to make such a difference in me
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That people that knew me
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Don't even recognize me anymore.
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May god do something so profound in you through these words.
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I wanna share a few minutes with you,
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How you can help us do what we do right here.
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We are a viewer supported ministry,
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And we believe that when you sow into good things,
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God will harvest it back in your life.
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For weeks, for months, for years,
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I'm dating myself, but decades,
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Going back to the late '90s
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When we started local television.
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I wanna thank all of you who've made this happen
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And helped us get to where we are.
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It takes a lot to get this to you.
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It takes a lot of people who know what they're doing
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And a lot of resources.
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And because we don't advertise or anything else,
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We just believe you, if you're being blessed by it,
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That you'll bless what blesses you,
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Strengthen what strengthens you.
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Give back to what's giving to you.
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We ask you just to seek god and continue
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As he would lead you.
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If you have become a first-time giver,
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We have this gift to send to you
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Just to say thank you,
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Just as a token of our appreciation,
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Recognizing that you've placed value on us,
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And we're grateful for that.
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We wanna serve and we wanna serve well,
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And we want this message to go out clear,
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And do something positive in your life
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Every single time you turn on this telecast.
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Thank you for your willful sacrifice
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And your generous giving.
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It helps us do what we do.
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Now let's get back to "the favor effect."
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Matthew 10.
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Give me a few more minutes.
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Matthew 10.
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Joseph
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Is going to be the prince of egypt.
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Okay.
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So god has gotta take the righteous
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And put them in an adverse environment
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And cause success to come through favor.
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The bible says you are the salt not of the church.
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You are the salt of the earth.
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You are a city on a hill that cannot be hidden,
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And you are the light of the world.
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Earth, world, city.
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But we want to get to church so we can be salty.
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So i've been holding my salt all week,
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So i gotta go to church and just salt everybody.
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Not understanding in here, you're just salting the salt.
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When you put salt on something,
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You sprinkle it over it to change its taste.
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- [congregant] hallelujah.
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- and jesus said this.
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I like jesus. he's a great businessman.
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He said if the salt loses its saltiness,
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It's only good for the dung heap.
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If you don't know what dung is, go google it.
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(congregation laughing)
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That's what jesus said.
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Those are his words.
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So if god takes you and puts you in a difficult environment
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And sprinkles you,
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He didn't put you there to become it.
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He puts you there to affect it.
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See, i'm not getting much claps right now
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And they're delayed, okay?
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Because there are people under the sound of my voice,
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You are working in hostile environments.
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Some of you are operating in hostile environments.
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Some of you are in environments
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That are different from your core values
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And the things that you hold dear,
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The things that you believe in,
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And you're like, "god, get me out of this.
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God, give me..."
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Not understanding that god sent you right straight into it.
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See, i know i'm messing with your head.
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I've had people come here and they have interviewed for jobs
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Because they wanna get out of a worldly environment.
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"i'm so tired of working around
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All that lying, cheating, and corruption.
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Pastor, i wanna come.
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Do y'all have any job openings?"
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And i help people understand.
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You gotta understand the revival is not in here.
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The revival is when you can take what's in here
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And move it out there.
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Okay?
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Now, this is simple, but let me burn it into your spirit
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Because if this is gonna be a year
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Of great expansion and growth,
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It's gonna be because of this principle
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I'm teaching you right now.
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We live in the day of social media
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Where we try to debate everybody into everything.
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Now this diet's better than this diet,
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So let's get on a podcast and let's debate it.
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This political view is better than this political view,
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So let's debate it all the time.
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Okay?
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Now, i don't believe in this theological thing,
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And i don't believe this.
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I don't believe this is what happened in creation.
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I believe creation was seven literal days.
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Well, i believe every day is a thousand years,
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So it took god seven...
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And everybody debates theology.
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Everybody gets into debates.
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And that is not what god said.
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He said be a light, be a city that can't be hidden,
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And be salt.
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And people don't understand that as a light,
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All you gotta do is shine.
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I very rarely ever go anywhere
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And preach to people like i do here.
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I don't go out there and do that.
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I just shine.
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Let me tell you.
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If you are in a corrupt environment
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And you're honest, you shine.
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(congregation applauding)
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I promise you they notice
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That they can't get you to function like them.
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And i'll tell you this.
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They also notice that if you claim to go to church
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And function like them, that you're hypocritical.
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And in the time where you try to preach to 'em,
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They will bring that up to you in your face.
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If you're around an entire environment
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That's a bunch of liars, speak the truth.
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You will shine.
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You will be a city that cannot be hidden.
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You will be a light in the darkness
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And you will be the salt that god is sprinkling.
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You're changing your environment
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And you don't even know you're doing it.
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The bible says that when david was running from saul
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Because god anointed him to be king,
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And saul wanted to kill him
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Because saul knew if david was gonna be king,
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That means he's gonna lose his kingship.
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So saul was chasing.
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The bible says he went into a cave
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Called the cave of adullam.
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It means the place of the squeeze,
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And the bible says he was with 400 men in that cave.
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Listen to how he described them.
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They were broke, they were in debt, and they were bitter,
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And they were disgruntled.
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Oh boy, ain't that what you wanna start a company with?
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That's the way they were.
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And they came out years later.
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And guess what those same 400 men were?
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They're called david's mighty men,
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Because he went into an environment that was bitter,
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That was broke, that was negative,
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But he did not become his environment.
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He came in there and changed the environment
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Because he was a light, he was city,
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And he was salt sent into that environment to change it.
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God will take the righteous
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And put them amongst the unrighteous.
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And he says, "let your light so shine before men
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That they see your good works and glorify god."
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I know it's hard to clap,
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But maybe just maybe that place is your assignment
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And god put you there to change it
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Instead of letting it change you.
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Hey, hallelujah.
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(congregation applauding)
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Do you know how much a change agent you could be
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If you just shine.
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I gotta do this and i gotta do something great.
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No, you don't shine.
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Shine.
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Be light, be salt.
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Understand that god...
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God is going to take joseph,
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And this journey looks maddening.
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Joseph
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Goes excitedly and tells a god-given dream to his brothers.
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They want to kill him.
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I mean, that's a whole different kind of anger.
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I ain't never felt that.
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I don't ever want to either.
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And decide instead just to throw him in a pit.
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Okay, that's better.
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Throw me in a hole.
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Okay.
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Then comes a band of ishmaelites.
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They take him and sell him as a slave to the ishmaelites.
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He's a slave there, and look what the bible says.
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But the lord had favor on him.
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And then he went and there was a captain of the guard
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Who was a military captain in egypt
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Who bought him as a slave.
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And he had favor with potiphar.
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That was his name.
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And he had such favor said potiphar,
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"put him over everything over all of his household."
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So god let him rise.
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But then there was potiphar's wife
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Who also wanted some of that favor that was on his life.
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She kept making advances. he rejected them.
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So finally she got mad 'cause he rejected her,
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And she went and told her husband he tried to rape her,
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So he got thrown into prison again.
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And the bible says but the lord had favor on him,
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And he met a butler, and he met a baker,
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And both of them had dreams.
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And because of their dreams,
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They fell out of favor with pharaoh.
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And he said, "tell me these dreams."
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He interpreted both of 'em.
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And then they went back to pharaoh.
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He didn't like the baker.
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He had him slain.
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But he liked the butler and had him restored.
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And then you want people to remember you
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When you helped 'em out.
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But the bible says when the butler was restored,
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He didn't remember joseph anymore.
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He left him where he was.
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Come on, somebody.
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Ain't it terrible when you help somebody get somewhere
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And then they forget all about you?
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That's what happened.
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But the bible said but the lord had favor on him.
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And then pharaoh had dreams
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And nobody could interpret his dreams.
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They said, there's a guy in prison that interprets dreams.
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They took the dream to him and he interpreted them.
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And then pharaoh said,
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"is there anyone in all of egypt
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That has the wisdom this man has?"
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And he said, "i'm putting you over the whole country
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And your word will be greater than anybody's.
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Only my word will be above your word."
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And now this guy who was a dreamer
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In a pit with his brothers is now the prince of egypt.
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And when there's a famine in the land,
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His brothers come back around hunting for food,
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And they're standing before the prince of egypt
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And they bow down.
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Oh god's gonna make your dream come to pass,
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But your journey may look crazy while god's on it,
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But god has not given up the steering wheel.
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The enemy has not thrown god out of the sea,
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And he's running your life rush on.
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God is the puppet master behind the curtain
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Pulling the strings of your life.
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And it don't matter if you're up, you got favor.
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And when you are down, you got favor.
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When you're in the middle, you got favor.
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God is going to get you where he wants you to go,
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And he's going to use favor to do it.
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Take 30 seconds and give your god a praise.
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(congregation cheering and applauding)
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High five people who say favor is coming, favor is coming,
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Favor is coming, favor is coming.
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We don't ever know who's on the other side
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Of these camera lenses.
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And maybe you're in a low place.
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Maybe you're in a dark place.
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Maybe it's the middle of the night.
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Maybe substance abuse.
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Maybe people have exited your life.
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Maybe you've experienced extreme loss.
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Maybe you're on the backside of bad decisions.
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I don't know.
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But i will tell you this,
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God will reach right to where you are.
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The bible says where sin abounds,
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Grace does all the more abound.
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There will never be anything you mess up
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That is greater than the grace of god
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To come and fix it and clean it up.
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And i want to invite you right now
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To this wonderful family called the family of god,
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Where you accept christ as your lord and savior.
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He comes in and forgives you of your sins,
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And it becomes that voice that never leaves,
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And that friend that never abandons you.
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He begins to fill up all the empty places
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On the inside of your soul,
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That accomplishment and money
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And all these things can't touch.
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Would you accept him now?
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The prayer goes like this.
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Lord, i thank you that you can feel the empty spaces.
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I thank you that you accept me like i am,
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But you don't leave me like i am.
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Thank you that you love me.
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I confess my sins to you today and ask you forgiveness.
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I ask you to wash me clean in your blood.
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I confess with my mouth and believe with my heart.
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You died and rose again on the cross
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To purchase my salvation.
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Come live in me.
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Be my lord and savior.
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I put my faith in you this day.
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In jesus' name. amen.
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If you prayed that prayer, i need you to let us know.
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We gotta celebrate with you.
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That's why we do what we do.
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Let us be a part going forward of your spiritual growth.
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Let us make an investment into your life every time we can.
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So grateful you made this decision.
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Congratulations.
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It is the best decision you could have ever made.
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We'll see you again real soon.
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Until then, be blessed.
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Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 3)

April 1, 2026 | 27:29

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