Tim Timberlake - Moved By Hunger

March 3, 2026 | 27:29

Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Moved By Hunger | March 3, 2026
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  • Hey, family is
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  • Pastor tim timberlake again,
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  • And i'm honored to be back with you.
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  • Whether you're
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  • Watching me on your cell phone
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  • Or maybe you're watching me in your home, wherever the case is
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  • And wherever you
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  • May be watching, i am honored to share the good news
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  • Of jesus christ with you.
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  • Last week,
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  • We unpacked this message that god placed on my heart,
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  • Marked before moved, and we talked about abraham,
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  • And we discussed how abraham, he got halfway.
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  • He was partially obedient,
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  • But partial obedience is still disobedience.
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  • And in this particular message that god has given me,
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  • We continue the story of stephen in front of the sanhedrin
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  • Council, and he's explaining to them
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  • What god did for abraham and what god did for joseph.
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  • And i want us to go to the word, as it has already begun,
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  • Entitled moved by hunger.
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  • Let's go to the word of god and glean from it.
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  • Get from it, grow from it the ways that only god can do.
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  • And i'll be back here very soon.
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  • Be blessed.
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  • So god
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  • Will, in fact, let you occupy a title
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  • And strip you of your anointing.
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  • And some of us carry the title,
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  • But we don't carry the weight with it.
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  • Some of us have the look,
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  • But we don't have the influence that goes behind
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  • What it is that god has called us to steward.
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  • Some of us have the possessions,
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  • But we don't have the priorities in order,
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  • So we won't keep them.
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  • And stephen is utilizing the life of joseph
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  • To demonstrate
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  • And model to us that if we don't have the presence of god,
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  • You in fact can have the provision
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  • And think that the provision
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  • Is the promise,
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  • When in fact the promise is his presence.
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  • When you stay surrendered and submit it to the feet of jesus.
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  • Point number one, i encourage you to take notes
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  • Because life is going to press you.
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  • And when life presses you,
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  • What's on the inside of you will come out of you.
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  • And if you're not prepared for it,
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  • Your flesh will speak for you instead of your spirit man.
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  • Point number one is this god will starve.
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  • What you refuse to surrender.
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  • I love you to.
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  • God will use famine
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  • To finish what circumcision started.
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  • See what the knife begin.
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  • Famine completes.
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  • Look at the text.
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  • Joseph is sold and jacob
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  • Remains comfortable.
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  • His son is placed
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  • Into a pit and is lost by his other sons.
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  • And jacob remains comfortable.
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  • And so what happens around his comfort?
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  • Famine hits
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  • And god has a way
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  • Of using famine to move you.
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  • When your faith gets lazy.
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  • And so god will starve.
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  • What? you refuse to surrender
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  • When famine shows up, it forces movement
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  • That your faith has not yet produced.
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  • So the covenant of circumcision, it marked abraham,
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  • But it was hunger that mobilized jacob.
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  • And in this passage we understand and see that
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  • Famine is not punishment.
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  • It is pressure applied to unfulfilled obedience.
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  • And some of you, you're in a season of famine right now,
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  • Not because god is penalizing you, but
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  • Because god is positioning you for greater purpose.
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  • And god will leave you there long enough to starve you
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  • To the point where you depend only on him and on nothing else.
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  • You find satisfaction and fulfillment in.
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  • And so god will
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  • In fact remove provision
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  • To reveal direction.
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  • I'll say it again god will remove provision from your life
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  • To reveal direction.
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  • Because if you get hungry enough,
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  • You'll look for substance somewhere.
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  • You get thirsty enough,
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  • You look for water somewhere.
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  • So we don't know what it is
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  • To really be hungry here in america,
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  • To really long and search for clean water
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  • Here in the states, because we have it in abundance.
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  • But you go with me to africa.
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  • One of these are
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  • The third will countries where water is not a luxury.
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  • It is essential
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  • Because it is hard to come by.
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  • When you discover it, you're grateful for it.
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  • And you, you relish in what it is that you receive
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  • Because you understand
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  • That this is not something you just want.
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  • This is something that you need.
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  • And when you get hungry enough for the things of god,
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  • It drives you to find his presence.
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  • And the reality is, is some of us
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  • Are not hungry enough because we're so full of ourselves.
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  • You want to know
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  • How i know you're full of yourself.
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  • Because you pick and choose.
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  • When you spend time with god,
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  • Like your soul and your spirit, don't depend on it.
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  • You want to know how?
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  • Know you full of yourself.
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  • Because if i was to ask you,
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  • Why should you make it into heaven?
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  • You probably would start
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  • The conversation off by saying, because i.
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  • How do you know you're going to make it into heaven?
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  • Because i because i did this because i'm not a bad person
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  • And because i'm okay, and because i had this many days
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  • Where i didn't sin.
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  • And the reality is, if that conversation
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  • Does not start with because he.
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  • You're not hungry enough.
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  • And guess what god would do?
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  • He will continue
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  • To let life
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  • Squish
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  • Until you are empty.
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  • And starving
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  • For the only thing
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  • That can fulfill your soul
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  • And nourish your spirit.
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  • Stephen
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  • Is teaching the sanhedrin council.
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  • If comfort could mature, you,
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  • Then egypt would have never been necessary.
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  • But god will let hunger preach
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  • When his voice remains ignored in your life,
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  • Because you're too full of yourself.
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  • Point number two.
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  • God doesn't protect you from rejection.
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  • He redeems you through it.
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  • Rejection did not counsel joseph's purpose and assignment.
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  • It positioned him for it.
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  • Scripture says they sold him into slavery.
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  • They sold him.
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  • But look at what god does.
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  • God stationed him in the prison.
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  • They threw him in the pit, and god stationed him in the prison.
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  • Because god understands what promotion looks like
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  • Beyond your pain and you won't understand it
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  • If you allow pain to speak louder than his promise.
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  • But what do you mean by that?
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  • If joseph would have complained in the prison,
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  • He would have never got an opportunity to prophesy.
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  • I said of joseph, would have complained in the prison.
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  • He never would have got an opportunity to prophesy
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  • What happened.
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  • He interpreted the dreams
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  • Of a baker and a butler.
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  • What is the significance of this for us?
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  • A baker? prepare something.
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  • A butler serves it.
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  • Hear me.
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  • If you think that this season of isolation.
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  • If you think that this season of confinement.
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  • If you think that the season of restriction
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  • Is god punishing you, that you never will continue to proclaim
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  • The purpose that god has placed in you
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  • Because it's so focused on yourself.
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  • But when you see the current season that you're in
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  • As god prepping you
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  • For greater purpose,
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  • Then everyone that comes across your path,
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  • You call out what god has called out on the inside of them.
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  • Because god's purpose for your life is not just for you,
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  • It's for everyone that comes into contact with you.
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  • And this is what joseph understood.
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  • Although i may not know what they do,
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  • I understand who is at work on the inside of them.
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  • So i have to interpret what it is that they're
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  • Carrying, because maybe god will activate the gift in them.
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  • By my gift being activated, even when i feel like i'm hidden
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  • And restricted and enslaved to the very thing
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  • That got me here.
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  • And so joseph begins to interpret
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  • The dream of a baker and a butler.
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  • The baker prepares and a butler serves.
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  • The point in this for us
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  • Is you never know who god will position you in front of
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  • When you feel hidden, overlooked.
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  • Hear me?
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  • The very thing that got joseph thrown into the pit
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  • Is the very thing that got joseph imprisoned.
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  • And is the very thing
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  • That got him promoted to the place of honor in egypt
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  • When he was not in egyptian.
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  • So god will take what you have, look pastor,
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  • And he will take what you deem as punishment,
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  • And he will promote you
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  • In the very season that you feel restricted in.
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  • Before anyone knows who you are, before anyone sees
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  • Anything different, before you even feel different,
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  • God will elevate you in pain so that you don't think you are
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  • The one that put yourself out of the prison
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  • That you've been stuck in for all these different years.
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  • You know what god was doing with joseph?
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  • He was digging a well in him that only he could feel.
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  • You want to know what god was doing in joseph?
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  • He was cultivating a whole a hunger
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  • That only could be fulfilled by the presence of god.
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  • He was developing a dependance in joseph
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  • That can only be relieved
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  • By the power of god.
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  • And what would have been a great story
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  • Would have been.
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  • And joseph was free from egypt,
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  • And god promoted him.
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  • Joseph was released out of prison,
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  • And he went back home,
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  • And he lived the rest of his days with his family.
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  • But scripture does not say that
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  • Joseph did not rise after egypt.
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  • He rose inside of egypt.
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  • And it is possible
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  • That the very place you're trying to escape
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  • Is the very place god is wanting to
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  • Promote you.
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  • Because god
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  • Would use hunger
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  • To move you.
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  • And stephen is saying to the sanhedrin council,
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  • You've always rejected the deliverer,
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  • But you have freely received deliverance.
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  • And if we're not careful, we will try to manipulate
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  • Our relationship with jesus to get what we want
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  • Instead of depend on him for what we need.
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  • And i want you to hear me when i tell you this.
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  • Any spirit you try to manipulate for your own personal
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  • Gain is witchcraft.
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  • When you rely
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  • On the presence of god
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  • In every season,
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  • Whether you find yourself in the pit,
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  • In the prison, or in the palace, you understand
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  • That rejection is often god's transportation system
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  • That gets you from the current season to the season.
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  • He is calling you into.
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  • What they meant to bury you with
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  • God will use to build toward you.
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  • Hear me?
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  • The pit was not an interruption to god's plan.
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  • It was the itinerary that god had drew up
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  • To get joseph to the place he wanted for him to be.
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  • And this is what god will do in your life.
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  • God will remove provision
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  • When provision becomes the goal
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  • Instead of his presence.
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  • Hey, family, as we take a break,
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  • My prayer is that this broadcast is blessing you.
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  • I pray this message as we journey
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  • Through the book of acts,
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  • Unlocks destiny on the inside of you.
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  • Remove the scales from your eyes
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  • And it removes whatever earmuffs you may have on your ears
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  • That are blocking you from hearing god.
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  • And i believe that as we go on this journey of going towards
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  • And i believe that as we go on this journey of going towards
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  • Better, there's some bumps that we have
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  • To navigate, some mountains that we have to scale,
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  • And some giants that we have to defeat.
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  • Let's go back into today's message as we continue to learn
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  • The word of god.
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  • When provision
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  • Replaces the presence of god, salvation
  • 00:14:47.903 --> 00:14:52.041
  • Is traded for slavery.
  • 00:14:52.041 --> 00:14:55.744
  • And no one has to put shackles on you
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  • Because you placed them on yourself.
  • 00:15:00.082 --> 00:15:04.219
  • And that's why some of you
  • 00:15:04.787 --> 00:15:05.721
  • Can't lift your hands today.
  • 00:15:05.721 --> 00:15:09.191
  • Because you're stuck in provision.
  • 00:15:09.191 --> 00:15:12.428
  • And that's why some of you can't worship,
  • 00:15:12.428 --> 00:15:14.930
  • Because you're thinking about all the things
  • 00:15:14.930 --> 00:15:17.900
  • Instead of the one who allows you to store
  • 00:15:17.900 --> 00:15:20.102
  • Them.
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  • Stephen is telling the sanhedrin
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  • Council, don't forget
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  • The promises because you've been provided for.
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  • Can we dig a little bit?
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  • Point number three.
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  • Anything god uses to save you
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  • That you don't refuse to release
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  • Will eventually rule you.
  • 00:15:47.730 --> 00:15:51.333
  • Anything god uses to save you,
  • 00:15:51.967 --> 00:15:54.803
  • That you refuse to release will eventually rule you.
  • 00:15:54.803 --> 00:15:58.841
  • What does it mean?
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  • God will keep you hungry long enough
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  • To the
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  • Point where you don't depend more on food than you do.
  • 00:16:06.915 --> 00:16:10.085
  • Him being your source.
  • 00:16:10.085 --> 00:16:13.422
  • God intentionally delayed the resources
  • 00:16:13.422 --> 00:16:16.825
  • So that he could develop
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  • A hunger on the inside of jacob and the rest of his sons.
  • 00:16:18.560 --> 00:16:22.164
  • Why did god do this?
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  • It's the same reason god does it in your life.
  • 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:27.970
  • Because god's focus is not just on grain,
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  • It's on him getting glory.
  • 00:16:32.141 --> 00:16:35.544
  • God's focus
  • 00:16:35.878 --> 00:16:37.780
  • Is not so that you confuse safety with sonship.
  • 00:16:37.780 --> 00:16:43.052
  • And if you're a daughter, you're still a son.
  • 00:16:43.052 --> 00:16:45.687
  • According to the text.
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  • God will create a well on the inside of you.
  • 00:16:50.259 --> 00:16:52.795
  • Here he will dig a,
  • 00:16:52.795 --> 00:16:55.197
  • Ditch on the inside of you that only he can fill
  • 00:16:55.197 --> 00:16:58.100
  • Because he does not want you to confuse
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  • Rescue with relationship.
  • 00:17:00.002 --> 00:17:05.074
  • The reality
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  • For some of our lives
  • 00:17:07.176 --> 00:17:09.078
  • Is that god knows that if he pulls you
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  • Out of the pit now, he'll never hear from you again.
  • 00:17:11.647 --> 00:17:17.553
  • So he'll leave you there.
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  • Until you know that, you know that
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  • You know i can't get myself
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  • Out of the mess i am in right now.
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  • Only god can do that.
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  • And i will make a covenant with god that if he brings me
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  • Out of the pit, i won't forget the promise
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  • And the provision and his presence.
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  • Stay hungry.
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  • Stay thirsty.
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  • Stay yielded.
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  • Stay submitted.
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  • Stay humble.
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  • Stay open.
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  • Stay flexible.
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  • Stay pliable to the will that god has
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  • For your life.
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  • Point number four is this.
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  • God will feed your hunger
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  • Without healing it.
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  • If you continue to act like you are your source.
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  • What led them to egypt?
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  • Hunger.
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  • But it was dependance on provision that kept them
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  • There instead of the promise in the presence of god.
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  • If you hear nothing else,
  • 00:18:54.249 --> 00:18:55.417
  • I say today, i pray you heard this next statement.
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  • Egypt add to their appetite,
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  • But only god could answer their ache.
  • 00:19:01.823 --> 00:19:07.329
  • And some of you are full, but you're still empty.
  • 00:19:08.330 --> 00:19:11.700
  • Some of you are full, but you're still aching.
  • 00:19:12.668 --> 00:19:16.071
  • Some of you are full, but you're not satisfied.
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  • It is because you have settled in egypt
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  • And you have gotten your appetite quenched,
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  • But you have not allowed the presence and the power of god
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  • To ease the ache that you've been carrying
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  • All this time.
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  • And the reality is,
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  • It's only god can do
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  • What you've been looking
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  • And other places
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  • And other people to do.
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  • People will reject you.
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  • Situations and circumstances will reject you.
  • 00:19:49.838 --> 00:19:53.208
  • People you thought you could depend on
  • 00:19:53.976 --> 00:19:55.510
  • For the rest of your life.
  • 00:19:55.510 --> 00:19:56.578
  • What turned their back on you.
  • 00:19:56.578 --> 00:19:57.779
  • But guess you won't. god.
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  • For scripture says.
  • 00:20:05.120 --> 00:20:08.390
  • And yet god was with them.
  • 00:20:08.390 --> 00:20:12.527
  • I want you to hear me when i tell you this.
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  • God is with you.
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  • Pastor i'm going through the worst season of my life.
  • 00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:20.669
  • And yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:20.669 --> 00:20:23.805
  • Pastor i'm confused on what god desires for me.
  • 00:20:23.805 --> 00:20:26.241
  • And yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:26.241 --> 00:20:28.677
  • I have no direction and i have no clarity.
  • 00:20:28.677 --> 00:20:31.013
  • Yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:31.013 --> 00:20:33.048
  • Pastor, i have not heard the voice
  • 00:20:33.048 --> 00:20:34.583
  • Of god in so many years, and yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:34.583 --> 00:20:38.186
  • I have not felt this presence in so many years
  • 00:20:38.186 --> 00:20:40.689
  • And yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:40.689 --> 00:20:42.424
  • I'm confused about what he desires for me.
  • 00:20:42.424 --> 00:20:44.726
  • And yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:44.726 --> 00:20:48.096
  • Pastor, my life is falling apart and yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:48.096 --> 00:20:52.601
  • Pastor, my body is wracked with pain and yet god is with you.
  • 00:20:52.601 --> 00:20:56.805
  • Here is how i know god is with you,
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  • Because his word promises that he'll never leave you,
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  • Nor will he forsake you, and yet god is with you.
  • 00:21:01.877 --> 00:21:05.847
  • And the reason god stays with you
  • 00:21:05.847 --> 00:21:08.050
  • Is because god will develop a hunger
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  • Before he moves you to the place he desires for you to be.
  • 00:21:10.218 --> 00:21:15.457
  • So god will feed your hunger without healing it.
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  • If you continue to act like you are your own source.
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  • God keeps using hunger
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  • Because hunger reveals lordship.
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  • God will let you be hungry long enough
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  • To move you.
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  • And he will let you get fed long enough
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  • To expose what you trust the most.
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  • What are you hungry for today?
  • 00:21:53.729 --> 00:21:56.998
  • If you got what you prayed for,
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  • Who would have blessed?
  • 00:21:59.034 --> 00:22:02.404
  • If god answered all your prayers,
  • 00:22:03.138 --> 00:22:04.639
  • What promises would be fulfilled?
  • 00:22:04.639 --> 00:22:10.078
  • If you got everything
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  • That your heart desired and longed for.
  • 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.283
  • Would you still crave his presence?
  • 00:22:16.084 --> 00:22:20.422
  • But you still crave
  • 00:22:20.889 --> 00:22:23.392
  • His purpose.
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  • You still crave his power.
  • 00:22:26.128 --> 00:22:30.332
  • My prayer.
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  • Is that you remain hungry
  • 00:22:34.770 --> 00:22:37.672
  • So that you never settle
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  • In provision.
  • 00:22:40.642 --> 00:22:43.912
  • And so my prayer for you today,
  • 00:22:43.912 --> 00:22:46.181
  • A strange prayer request.
  • 00:22:46.748 --> 00:22:49.751
  • But when i pray, marks you for the rest of your life,
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  • I pray you fail.
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  • You say well thats cold pastor.
  • 00:22:58.360 --> 00:23:01.830
  • No no i pray you fail.
  • 00:23:01.830 --> 00:23:03.799
  • I pray you fail that everything god never intended
  • 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.067
  • For you to succeed.
  • 00:23:06.067 --> 00:23:10.505
  • You know what else i pray for?
  • 00:23:11.106 --> 00:23:12.140
  • Your life.
  • 00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:14.242
  • I pray you encounter a closed door.
  • 00:23:14.242 --> 00:23:18.914
  • I pray you encounter every closed door
  • 00:23:19.748 --> 00:23:21.583
  • That god never intended for you to walk to.
  • 00:23:21.583 --> 00:23:24.820
  • I pray, hear me.
  • 00:23:24.820 --> 00:23:26.822
  • I pray
  • 00:23:26.822 --> 00:23:28.857
  • You get rejected.
  • 00:23:28.857 --> 00:23:32.627
  • I pray you get
  • 00:23:32.961 --> 00:23:33.695
  • Rejected in every relationship
  • 00:23:33.695 --> 00:23:36.698
  • That god never purpose for you to be in.
  • 00:23:36.698 --> 00:23:45.207
  • And i pray
  • 00:23:45.507 --> 00:23:47.375
  • That you only find fulfillment
  • 00:23:47.375 --> 00:23:50.812
  • In his presence through his power
  • 00:23:50.812 --> 00:23:54.916
  • Because of his purpose and plan that he has for your life.
  • 00:23:54.916 --> 00:23:59.521
  • And so it's not until you feel that you realize
  • 00:23:59.521 --> 00:24:02.023
  • You can't succeed without him.
  • 00:24:02.023 --> 00:24:03.592
  • Scripture teaches us
  • 00:24:03.592 --> 00:24:04.926
  • That there are some things that are possible without him,
  • 00:24:04.926 --> 00:24:07.562
  • But all things are possible to those that believe.
  • 00:24:07.562 --> 00:24:16.872
  • And so if you feel,
  • 00:24:17.339 --> 00:24:19.508
  • You feel like you don't know where to turn,
  • 00:24:19.508 --> 00:24:22.110
  • You feel like you don't know which way is up,
  • 00:24:22.110 --> 00:24:23.912
  • Which way is down, you feel like you have no idea
  • 00:24:23.912 --> 00:24:27.048
  • Where your next spiritual meal
  • 00:24:27.048 --> 00:24:28.917
  • Is coming from,
  • 00:24:28.917 --> 00:24:30.185
  • Because you have been searching and you found yourself hungry
  • 00:24:30.185 --> 00:24:33.221
  • In a dry land and thirsty and a desert.
  • 00:24:33.221 --> 00:24:36.525
  • I'm telling you, you will find fulfillment and satisfaction
  • 00:24:36.525 --> 00:24:40.462
  • Only in jesus.
  • 00:24:40.462 --> 00:24:44.900
  • So look to him.
  • 00:24:45.267 --> 00:24:47.736
  • He'll never fail you.
  • 00:24:47.736 --> 00:24:50.872
  • Look to him.
  • 00:24:50.872 --> 00:24:51.473
  • He'll never leave you.
  • 00:24:51.473 --> 00:24:53.842
  • Look to him.
  • 00:24:53.842 --> 00:24:54.776
  • He'll never let you down or disappoint you.
  • 00:24:54.776 --> 00:24:57.679
  • Look to him
  • 00:24:58.013 --> 00:24:58.680
  • Because he is
  • 00:24:58.680 --> 00:24:59.381
  • The only one that can do for you
  • 00:24:59.381 --> 00:25:00.982
  • What you can never do for yourself.
  • 00:25:00.982 --> 00:25:03.418
  • Turn your eyes, fix your gaze on him and watch
  • 00:25:03.418 --> 00:25:07.589
  • How jesus provides for you.
  • 00:25:07.589 --> 00:25:11.393
  • Was you blessed by that word?
  • 00:25:12.027 --> 00:25:13.929
  • I sure do pray so i pray that we can see
  • 00:25:13.929 --> 00:25:17.732
  • How our lives are better shaped when we no longer
  • 00:25:17.732 --> 00:25:22.637
  • Depend on egypt, but depend on god.
  • 00:25:22.637 --> 00:25:26.174
  • I want you to understand this.
  • 00:25:26.808 --> 00:25:28.810
  • Egypt was not the promise egypt was to preservation.
  • 00:25:28.810 --> 00:25:33.815
  • And oftentimes we think that what god uses to preserve us
  • 00:25:33.815 --> 00:25:38.119
  • Is, in fact, the promises of god.
  • 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:40.689
  • And i don't want us to get stuck
  • 00:25:40.689 --> 00:25:42.691
  • In what god uses to preserve us.
  • 00:25:42.691 --> 00:25:45.627
  • Let us be a people
  • 00:25:45.627 --> 00:25:46.695
  • That continue to move towards the presence of god,
  • 00:25:46.695 --> 00:25:49.664
  • That are filled with the power of god,
  • 00:25:49.664 --> 00:25:51.900
  • That are obedient,
  • 00:25:51.900 --> 00:25:52.934
  • Submitted and surrendered to the will of god.
  • 00:25:52.934 --> 00:25:55.737
  • I pray you were blessed by this broadcast today,
  • 00:25:55.737 --> 00:25:58.440
  • And i pray you continue to go on this journey with us.
  • 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:00.675
  • As we go through the acts of the apostles.
  • 00:26:00.675 --> 00:26:03.645
  • Our team is going to do
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  • Some information at the bottom of the screen
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  • As to how you can partner with us.
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  • I want you to know that all your contributions
  • 00:26:08.216 --> 00:26:10.752
  • And all your investment
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  • Into the kingdom of god in this broadcast,
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  • They go to help us advance the gospel of jesus christ.
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  • These broadcasts and these opportunities,
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  • They're not cheap and they're not free.
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  • Us in a great way.
  • 00:26:27.268 --> 00:26:29.437
  • And my
  • 00:26:29.671 --> 00:26:30.872
  • Prayer is that you would pray about partnering with us.
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  • I want you to know that we're praying for you.
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  • I pray that as you start this year, 2026,
  • 00:26:36.878 --> 00:26:39.514
  • You're starting it with jesus.
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  • And i truly believe this is your best year.
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  • Spiritually, it will be your best year yet.
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  • If you're ever
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  • In the jacksonville area, stop by celebration church any sunday
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  • Visit. it's 9 a.m. or 11 a.m..
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  • If you're not within the north florida area, it's okay.
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  • Continue to stop by here on this incredible network
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  • As we continue to bring you the gospel of jesus christ.
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  • I look forward to being back with you next week.
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  • Until then, i'll let you know god loves you and i
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  • Love you too. be blessed.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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