Praise | John Hannah | October 7, 2019
October 7, 2019
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Pastor Choco De Jesus Hosts Pastor John Hannah author of Desperate For Jesus
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Praise | John Hannah | October 7, 2019
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- - TODAY ON PRAISE, FROM
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- CHICAGO, SENIOR PASTOR OF NEW
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- LIFE COVENANT CHURCH PASTOR JOHN
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- HANNAH.
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- AND NOW PASTOR ...
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- - WELCOME, WELCOME.
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- WELL, GOD BLESS YOU, WELCOME,
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- WE'RE SO EXCITED ABOUT THE SHOW
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- TONIGHT.
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- I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.
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- THIS IS UNUSUAL, THIS PROBABLY
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- HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN 15 YEARS,
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- THE BROTHER I'M ABOUT TO
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- INTRODUCE TO YOU ALL IN JUST A
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- FEW MOMENTS, AND JUST WHAT GOD
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- HAS DONE IN HIS LIFE AND THE
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- JOURNEY THAT WE HAVE TAKEN, AND
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- SO WHAT A JOY TO HAVE PASTOR
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- JOHN HANNAH.
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- COME ON, LET'S GIVE IT UP ONE
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- MORE TIME.
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- PASTOR JOHN HANNAH.
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- JUST FOR THOSE TO JUST KIND OF
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- GIVE A HISTORY, PASTOR JOHN, OF
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- HIS RELATIONSHIP AND THE GENESIS
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- OF ALL THAT?
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- - IT'S AMAZING HOW WE BOTH
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- STARTED OUT DOING YOUTH MINISTRY
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- WHEN WE FIRST CONNECTENED.
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- I WAS DOING A CONFERENCE IN
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- CHICAGO CALLED THE INNER CITY
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- YOUTH SPRING BREAK CONFERENCE
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- AND TO GO FROM ALL OVER THE CITY
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- DURING THE SPRING BREAK TIME, SO
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- YOU AND I CONNECTED DURING THAT
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- TIME BECAUSE WE WERE BOTH DOING
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- YOUTH MINISTRY.
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- - YES, PALESTINE CHURCH.
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- AND YOU INVITED ME AND SAID, NOW
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- JOHN, YOU'LL BE THE FIRST
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- AFRICAN AMERICAN TO EVER PREACH
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- AT THIS CHURCH.
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- - HOW OLD WAS THAT?
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- - IT WAS OVER 35 YEARS, SO I
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- REMEMBER THERE BEING THERE FOR
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- YOUR INSTALLATION, STILL NOT THE
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- KNOWING WHAT GOD WAS GOING TO
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- DO, AND THEN EVENTUALLY, I WAS
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- AT MY CHURCH FOR 19 YEARS, AND
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- IN PRAYER, THE LORD SAID TO ME
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- LIKE HE SAID TO ABRAHAM, GET
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- THEE OUT OF YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE
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- AND AMONG THY KINDRED, AND IN
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- PRAYER, I WAS, LIKE, NO.
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- AND IT'S COMPLETELY OUT OF MY
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- COMFORT ZONE AND MY WIFE AND I
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- WERE THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN
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- MEMBERS.
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- AND I WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN
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- AMERICAN PASTOR OF THIS CHURCH
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- AND I'LL NEVER FORGET, YOU
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- LOOKED AT ME AND SAID, I SEE
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- WHAT'S IN YOU.
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- I SEE WHAT'S ON YOU.
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- IT DOESN'T SCARE ME.
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- IT DOESN'T INTIMIDATE ME AND AS
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- A MATTER OF FACT, I PLANNED IT.
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- AND WHENEVER YOU KNOW THAT GOD
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- HAS CALLED YOU TO SOMETHING
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- SPECIAL, YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL
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- WHO YOU SUBMIT YOUR VISION OR
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- YOUR DREAMS TO.
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- ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS -- THE
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- PROBLEM WAS WHEN JOSEPH SHARED
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- HIS DREAM WITH HIS BROTHERS, THE
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- BIBLE SAYS, AND THEY HATED HIM
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- THE MORE.
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- - THAT'S RIGHT.
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- - SO YOUR FUTURE CAN CAUSE
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- PEOPLE TO HATE YOU AND IF YOU
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- CAN'T HANDLE MY PRESENT, WHAT
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- ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH MY
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- FUTURE?
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- [ Cheering and Applause ]
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- - BUT YOU MADE ME COMFORTABLE
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- ENOUGH TO COME IN AND SUBMIT
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- THAT.
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- I WAS WITH YOU FOR FOUR YEARS.
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- IT TOOK ME TWO YEARS TO JUST
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- SUBMIT, BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID TO
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- LAY EVERYTHING DOWN.
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- I WAS RELUCTANT.
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- AND I REMEMBER PEOPLE WERE
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- CALLING SAYING, WE THINK YOU
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- WOULD BE GOOD TO COME OVER HERE
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- AND INTERVIEW TO BE A PASTOR AND
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- YOU WERE SAYING, I JUST DON'T
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- FEEL LIKE THIS GUY ... AND I
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- WAS, LIKE, WELL, I'M GOING TO
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- SEE AND I WOULD ALWAYS COME BACK
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- AND I NEVER FORGET A SUNDAY YOU
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- AND I WERE DOING A DUAL SERMON,
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- AND WE WERE PREACHING ABOUT
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- MOSES.
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- I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS AS LONG
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- AS I LIVE.
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- WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN GOD SAID,
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- THROW THE STAFF ON THE GROUND,
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- THAT SUBMISSION AND THE LORD
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- SAID TO ME, YOUR MINISTRY RIGHT
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- NOW IS THAT STAFF AND I NEED YOU
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- TO SUBMIT IT ONSTAGE IN FRONT OF
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- EVERYONE AND I WAS, LIKE, NO!
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- AND WITH TEARS, I PUT THE STAFF
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- AT YOUR FEET AND THEN I KNEELED
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- AT YOUR FEET AND SAID FROM THIS
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- POINT ON, I SUBMIT MY FUTURE.
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- AND WE BOTH WEPT.
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- AND DAYS LATER, YOU TOLD ME, I
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- WON'T PLANT YOU UNTIL I KNOW YOU
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- HAVE A SHEPHERD'S HEART.
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- - THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT.
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- WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
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- IS THAT JOHN WAS A WELL-KNOWN
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- EVANGELIST, TRAVELLED THE
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- COUNTRY PREACHING, HAD AN
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- ITINERARY THAT WAS PACKED.
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- WHEN HE CAME TO HUMBLE PARK
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- BECAUSE HE LIVED IN THE SOUTH
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- SIDE AND GOD BROUGHT HIM TO A
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- GROUP OF PUERTO RICANS AND HE
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- WAS THE FIRST --
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- - AND I ONLY SPOKE ONE
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- LANGUAGE, WHICH WAS SPANISH.
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- - THAT'S ALL YOU NEED, AND SO
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- JOHN COMES WITH ENNA, HIS
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- BEAUTIFUL WIFE, AND HE'S THERE
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- ON A SUNDAY.
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- I'M PREACHING AND I'M SEEING HIM
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- OUT IN THE AUDIENCE AND ASKED,
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- WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
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- AND HE SAID, THE LORD TOLD ME TO
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- COME HERE AND SO THERE HE WAS
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- FOR TWO YEARS.
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- HE GOT THAT PART AND THEN I SAID
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- TO JOHN, I SAID, JOHN -- BECAUSE
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- HE WOULD PREACH AT OUR CHURCH
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- AND IT WAS ALMOST LIKE DROPPING
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- BOMBS.
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- THAT'S WHAT EVANGELISTS DO.
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- THEY COME, THEY DROP THE BOMBS.
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- I SAID, JOHN, I'M NOT GOING TO
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- PLANT YOU UNTIL YOU HAVE A
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- PASTOR'S HEART.
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- YOU NEED TO LOVE PEOPLE.
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- YOU NEED TO LOVE SHEEP AND KNOW
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- WHERE THEY'RE AT.
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- AND SO TAKE IT FROM THERE.
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- WHAT WAS YOUR ASSIGNMENT?
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- BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THE WORLD
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- KNOWS WHAT YOU WERE DOING ON A
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- THURSDAY NIGHT FOR ONE YEAR.
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- - SO I WAS A PROBATION OFFICER.
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- - THAT'S RIGHT.
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- - AND I HAD A RADIO SHOW.
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- AND YOU SAID, YOUR ASSIGNMENT
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- MOVING FORWARD IS TO COME TO
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- THIS MEN'S SHELTER.
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- YOU ARE TO GIVE THEM A
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- SEVEN-MINUTE DEVOTION AND THEN
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- YOU'RE GOING TO FIX THEM
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- SOMETHING TO EAT.
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- YOU'RE GOING TO FEED HOMELESS
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- MEN.
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- - THAT'S RIGHT.
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- - AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO GET
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- IN THE VAN AND YOU'RE GOING TO
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- DRIVE AROUND HUMBLE PARK AND
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- WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE HUNGRY
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- AND YOU'RE GOING TO FEED THEM
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- AND SHARE THE LOVE OF CHRIST.
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- SO EVERY THURSDAY, EVERY
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- THURSDAY FOR A FULL YEAR,
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- SUMMER, WINTER, YEAR-ROUND, I
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- WOULD DRIVE FROM THE SOUTH SIDE.
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- SOMETIMES I WOULD BE SO TIRED.
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- AND THE SHELTER DIDN'T OPEN UP
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- UNTIL, LIKE, 8:30.
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- I'D GO IN THE CHURCH, GO ON THE
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- BALCONY, AND TAKE A NAP BUT THEN
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- BE ON THE POST.
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- THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S BETTER TO
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- MAKE A VOW THAN NOT TO BREAK IT
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- AND IF YOU COMMIT TO SOMETHING,
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- YOU NEED TO DO IT REGARDLESS OF
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- HOW TIRED YOU ARE, NO EXCUSES,
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- SO EVERY THURSDAY AND I COULD BE
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- SOMEWHERE PREACHING BUT THE
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- BREAKDOWN WAS NOW GO IN HERE AND
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- PREACH TO WE THE MEN.
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- NO, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PREACH
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- FOR AN HOUR.
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- JUST GIVE THEM A SEVEN-MINUTE
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- DEVOTION.
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- DISCIPLINE YOURSELF TO SIT THERE
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- AND GET OVER HOW THEY SMELL AND
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- SIT THERE AND FEED THEM AND TALK
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- TO THEM AND LOVE ON THEM.
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- NOW GET IN THIS VAN AND LET'S GO
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- FIND -- THAT SCENE BEGAN TO
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- BREAK ME, COMPLETELY BREAK ME OF
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- WHAT I THOUGHT MINISTRY WAS.
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- BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE THINK IT'S
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- ABOUT BEING IN THE FOUR WALLS OF
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- THE CHURCH, STANDING IN THE
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- PULPIT, PREACHING A SERMON.
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- THAT IS A SMALL PIECE OF THE
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- PIE.
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- AND I BEGAN TO JUST LOVE ON
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- PEOPLE AND I JUST WILL NEVER
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- FORGET WHEN GOD BROKE ME AND I
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- BEGAN TO LOVE PEOPLE.
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- WHEN I SAY LOVE PEOPLE, NOT LOVE
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- MY VILLAGE.
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- BECAUSE IT'S EASY TO LOVE THOSE
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- THAT ARE WITHIN THE FOUR WALLS
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- OF THE CHURCH.
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- BUT WHEN YOU CAN THROW YOUR ARMS
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- AROUND THOSE THAT DON'T LOOK
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- LIKE YOU, SMELL LIKE YOU, ACT
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- LIKE YOU, DON'T COME FROM YOUR
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- BACKGROUND ... [Applause]
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- - YEAH, YEAH.
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- - AND THEN I HAD A PASSION FOR
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- SOULS.
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- THEN THE LORD BEGAN TO SHOW ME
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- HOW CHARGE BECAME SWAP-A-RAMA.
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- HOW WE WOULD ROTATE NUMBERS.
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- BUT FORGET THE WALLS.
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- THE CHURCH BECAME A GATED
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- COMMUNITY BECAUSE IF I BROUGHT
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- YOU IN THE GATE, WE MIGHT LOOK
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- AT YOU LIKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING
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- UP IN HERE?
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- SO I WANTED TO TAKE THE GATE OFF
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- THE HINGES.
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- I SUBMITTED TO THAT PROCESS AND
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- NOT UNTIL I SUBMITTED TO THE
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- PROCESS THEN YOU SAID, OKAY, NOW
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- YOU'RE READY TO BE ANOINTED.
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- NOW GO FIND YOUR PLACE.
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- NOW GO SEEK THE LORD FOR WHAT
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- COMMUNITY YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN
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- AND I KNEW GOD BROUGHT ME HERE
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- TO TAKE ME BACK THERE.
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- - THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT.
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- YOU CAME TO US.
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- YOU WERE WITH US FOR FOUR YEARS.
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- IN 2004, NOW WE'RE FAST
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- FORWARDING A LITTLE BIT TO 2004
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- AFTER ONE YEAR OF ASSIGNMENT,
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- ONE YEAR OF FEEDING THE
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- HOMELESS, ONE YEAR OF GIVING A
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- SEVEN-MINUTE DEVOTION.
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- THAT WAS CRUCIAL.
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- IT WAS NOT 30 MINUTES.
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- SEVEN MINUTES DEVOTION.
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- GET IN THE VAN, GO FIND HOMELESS
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- PEOPLE UNDER THE BRIDGES.
- 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.080
- I NEED YOU TO BE WITH THEM,
- 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.160
- SMELL LIKE A SHEEP.
- 00:09:33.160 --> 00:09:34.170
- WE KNOW THAT THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN
- 00:09:34.170 --> 00:09:36.110
- SAMUEL ANOINTED DAVID, THE BIBLE
- 00:09:36.110 --> 00:09:38.260
- SAYS THAT AFTERWARDS, HE WENT
- 00:09:38.260 --> 00:09:40.190
- BACK TO THE SHEEP AND WHAT'S
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- MISSING TODAY IN AMERICA IS
- 00:09:42.160 --> 00:09:44.260
- PASTORS WHO LACK THE SMELL OF
- 00:09:44.260 --> 00:09:46.240
- THE SHEEP.
- 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:47.220
- - OF THE SHEEP.
- 00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:48.230
- [Applause]
- 00:09:48.230 --> 00:09:49.050
- - WE NEED TO CONTINUE.
- 00:09:49.050 --> 00:09:52.020
- AND THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT
- 00:09:52.020 --> 00:09:53.030
- YOU, JOHN.
- 00:09:53.030 --> 00:09:53.280
- YOU TOOK THE ASSIGNMENT, YOU
- 00:09:53.280 --> 00:09:55.060
- TOOK IT HEAD-ON.
- 00:09:55.060 --> 00:09:56.240
- YOUR HEART WAS IN IT AND IT
- 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.130
- BEGIN TO BREAK YOU.
- 00:09:59.130 --> 00:10:01.020
- IN 2004, I SAID, WE'RE READY TO
- 00:10:01.020 --> 00:10:02.260
- PLANT YOU.
- 00:10:02.260 --> 00:10:03.180
- WE SENT YOU OUT WITH A VAN AND
- 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:07.220
- THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT CAME
- 00:10:07.220 --> 00:10:09.130
- INTO OUR CHURCH WITH US AND
- 00:10:09.130 --> 00:10:10.290
- GETTING THE HEARTBEAT OF NEW
- 00:10:10.290 --> 00:10:12.190
- LIFE AND SO IN 2004, NEW LIFE
- 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.120
- COVENANT SOUTHEAST WAS PLANTED.
- 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.250
- TELL US THAT JOURNEY.
- 00:10:18.250 --> 00:10:20.000
- - SO WHAT I DID WAS I TOLD GOD,
- 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.000
- I SAID, GOD, IF YOU HAVE ME IN
- 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.250
- THE RIGHT PLACE, SEND THOSE THAT
- 00:10:25.100 --> 00:10:28.100
- YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF MY
- 00:10:28.100 --> 00:10:29.280
- TEAM, SEND THEM TO ME IN HUMBLE
- 00:10:29.280 --> 00:10:32.090
- PARK.
- 00:10:32.090 --> 00:10:32.180
- IF THIS IS YOU, SEND THEM HERE
- 00:10:32.180 --> 00:10:34.130
- AND LET THEM MAKE THE SAME
- 00:10:34.130 --> 00:10:36.060
- SACRIFICE I MADE AND MY PHONE
- 00:10:36.060 --> 00:10:37.210
- BEGAN TO RING AND THEY SAID, GOD
- 00:10:37.210 --> 00:10:40.120
- TOLD ME WHEREVER YOU ARE TO COME
- 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:41.110
- WHERE YOU ARE.
- 00:10:41.110 --> 00:10:41.250
- I SAID, I'M OVER HERE.
- 00:10:41.250 --> 00:10:43.230
- WHERE ARE YOU?
- 00:10:44.280 --> 00:10:47.280
- IT'S A GUY NAMED CHOCO.
- 00:10:50.230 --> 00:10:53.230
- I SAY CHO WHO?
- 00:10:54.270 --> 00:10:57.270
- WE SEE THE SHEEP WITH VISION
- 00:10:57.270 --> 00:11:00.090
- AMONG THE SHEPHERDS AND I SAID,
- 00:11:00.090 --> 00:11:02.210
- CHOCO, WE'RE NOT EVER GOING TO
- 00:11:02.210 --> 00:11:04.230
- ALLOW SHEEP TO DIVIDE SHEPHERDS.
- 00:11:04.230 --> 00:11:06.110
- YOU SAID, MARK YOUR SHEEP SO
- 00:11:06.110 --> 00:11:08.110
- WHEN YOU LEAVE, WE DON'T GET OUR
- 00:11:08.110 --> 00:11:10.080
- SHEEP MIXED UP.
- 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.180
- YOU DID SAY TO ME, NOW THAT
- 00:11:12.180 --> 00:11:14.010
- THEY'RE HERE, THEY BELONG TO ME
- 00:11:14.010 --> 00:11:15.250
- AND I REMEMBER SOME OF YOUR
- 00:11:15.250 --> 00:11:17.220
- MEMBERS SAID, WHEN YOU LEAVE,
- 00:11:17.220 --> 00:11:19.010
- I'M GOING WITH YOU.
- 00:11:19.010 --> 00:11:19.290
- I SAID, NO, YOU'RE NOT.
- 00:11:19.290 --> 00:11:22.000
- YOU DON'T BELONG TO ME BECAUSE I
- 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:24.110
- DIDN'T WANT SHEEP TO CAUSE
- 00:11:24.110 --> 00:11:26.010
- DIVISION AMONG SHEPHERDS AND YOU
- 00:11:26.010 --> 00:11:27.100
- PLANTED ME.
- 00:11:27.100 --> 00:11:27.250
- YOU SAID, GO FIND YOUR PLACE.
- 00:11:27.250 --> 00:11:29.220
- I FOUND A SPOT.
- 00:11:29.220 --> 00:11:32.090
- YOU PAID MY FIRST THREE MONTHS
- 00:11:32.090 --> 00:11:34.250
- RENT, BOUGHT MY FIRST SOUND
- 00:11:34.250 --> 00:11:36.080
- SYSTEM, YOU TOOK ME TO THE BANK,
- 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.110
- OPENED UP MY FIRST BANK ACCOUNT,
- 00:11:38.110 --> 00:11:41.020
- AND THEN YOU LEFT ME AND NEVER
- 00:11:41.020 --> 00:11:43.180
- CAME BACK!
- 00:11:43.180 --> 00:11:44.190
- [ LAUGHTER ]
- 00:11:44.190 --> 00:11:47.080
- [Applause]
- 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:47.280
- - YOU NEVER CAME BACK TO CHECK
- 00:11:47.280 --> 00:11:50.160
- ON ME!
- 00:11:50.160 --> 00:11:51.160
- - THE REASON WHY IS THAT WHEN I
- 00:11:51.160 --> 00:11:53.020
- PLANTED JOHN, HE WAS OUT
- 00:11:53.020 --> 00:11:55.030
- RUNNING.
- 00:11:55.030 --> 00:11:55.140
- HE WAS OUT RUNNING.
- 00:11:55.140 --> 00:11:56.020
- I'M, LIKE, HE GOT IT.
- 00:11:56.020 --> 00:11:57.080
- HE'S GOT IT.
- 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:58.060
- HE DOESN'T NEED ME TO OVERSEE
- 00:11:58.060 --> 00:12:01.040
- HIM.
- 00:12:01.040 --> 00:12:01.120
- AND I TELL YOU THE STORY AND THE
- 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.010
- BLESSING THAT GOD HAS DONE IN
- 00:12:03.010 --> 00:12:04.100
- THIS MAN'S LIFE AND HIS WIFE AND
- 00:12:04.100 --> 00:12:06.150
- THE CHURCH, AND THEY JUST
- 00:12:06.150 --> 00:12:08.010
- STARTED EXPLODING.
- 00:12:08.010 --> 00:12:10.130
- BECAUSE THAT TOOK THE HEARTBEAT.
- 00:12:10.130 --> 00:12:12.230
- - WE'RE IN A DAY RIGHT NOW THAT
- 00:12:12.230 --> 00:12:15.000
- IT'S OKAY TO BE YOURSELF BUT YOU
- 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:15.290
- HAVE TO COME FROM UNDER
- 00:12:15.290 --> 00:12:17.020
- SOMETHING.
- 00:12:17.020 --> 00:12:17.260
- - COME ON.
- 00:12:17.260 --> 00:12:18.170
- THAT'S GOOD.
- 00:12:18.170 --> 00:12:19.190
- - THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HANNAH
- 00:12:20.210 --> 00:12:23.210
- TOOK SAMUEL TO THE TEMPLE AND
- 00:12:23.210 --> 00:12:26.020
- LEFT HIM WITH ELI.
- 00:12:26.020 --> 00:12:27.220
- AND HE STAYED IN THE HOUSE.
- 00:12:27.220 --> 00:12:30.010
- HE SERVED THE LORD AND ELI, SO
- 00:12:32.070 --> 00:12:35.070
- REGARDLESS, THE OIL GOT ON
- 00:12:35.070 --> 00:12:36.210
- SAMUEL, AND SO I TOOK WHAT I
- 00:12:36.210 --> 00:12:38.140
- LEARNED THERE BACK TO MY
- 00:12:38.140 --> 00:12:40.040
- COMMUNITY.
- 00:12:40.040 --> 00:12:40.160
- BUT THEN KEPT IT TRUTH TO MY
- 00:12:40.230 --> 00:12:43.230
- IDENTITY.
- 00:12:43.230 --> 00:12:44.040
- AND I SAW GOD BEGIN TO BLESS
- 00:12:44.040 --> 00:12:46.110
- WHAT WE WERE DOING AND WE WENT
- 00:12:46.110 --> 00:12:48.080
- FROM -- WE STARTED A BUILDING AT
- 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.260
- 300.
- 00:12:50.260 --> 00:12:51.040
- WE HAD TO MOVE WITHIN NINE
- 00:12:51.040 --> 00:12:52.190
- MONTHS TO A SCHOOL THAT SEATS
- 00:12:52.190 --> 00:12:54.240
- 700.
- 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:55.020
- WE WENT FROM ONE SERVICE, TWO
- 00:12:55.020 --> 00:12:56.220
- SERVICE, THREE SERVICES, AND
- 00:12:56.220 --> 00:12:58.010
- THEN WE BOUGHT A BUILDING AND
- 00:12:58.010 --> 00:13:00.140
- I'LL NEVER FORGET, WE ALWAYS SAY
- 00:13:00.140 --> 00:13:02.260
- THIS, WHENEVER WE DISCUSS WHAT
- 00:13:02.260 --> 00:13:04.150
- HAPPENED WITH US, IT IS
- 00:13:04.150 --> 00:13:06.280
- IMPERATIVE THAT WE SAY TO GOD BE
- 00:13:06.280 --> 00:13:08.170
- THE GLORY.
- 00:13:08.170 --> 00:13:09.100
- WE DIDN'T DO THIS.
- 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:10.260
- - NO, NO.
- 00:13:10.260 --> 00:13:11.240
- - WE DID NOT DO THIS.
- 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:12.220
- THIS WAS ALL THE HAND OF GOD.
- 00:13:12.220 --> 00:13:14.090
- - YES.
- 00:13:14.090 --> 00:13:15.040
- - I'LL NEVER FORGET THE DAY I
- 00:13:15.040 --> 00:13:16.130
- CALLED YOU UP, CHOCO, WE SAVED A
- 00:13:16.260 --> 00:13:19.260
- MILLION DOLLARS!
- 00:13:19.260 --> 00:13:20.250
- - YOU'RE LIKE, WHAT?
- 00:13:20.250 --> 00:13:22.080
- WE GOT A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE
- 00:13:22.110 --> 00:13:25.110
- BANK.
- 00:13:25.110 --> 00:13:25.200
- YOU'RE LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU GOING
- 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:26.240
- TO DO WITH IT?
- 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:27.150
- I SAID, I DON'T KNOW, JUST LOOK
- 00:13:27.150 --> 00:13:28.290
- AT IT!
- 00:13:28.290 --> 00:13:30.090
- [ LAUGHTER ]
- 00:13:30.090 --> 00:13:30.250
- - AND THE MOMENT THAT WE SAY
- 00:13:30.250 --> 00:13:32.150
- THIS, AND I THINK THIS IS THE
- 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:36.120
- REVELATION.
- 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.160
- PREPARATION PLUS OPPORTUNITY
- 00:13:38.160 --> 00:13:39.210
- EQUALS SUCCESS.
- 00:13:39.210 --> 00:13:40.230
- - COME ON, THAT'S GOOD.
- 00:13:40.230 --> 00:13:42.060
- - WE PREPARE BY SAVING THAT
- 00:13:42.060 --> 00:13:44.110
- MONEY.
- 00:13:44.110 --> 00:13:44.200
- OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED ITSELF FOR
- 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:45.230
- US TO BUY THAT BUILDING.
- 00:13:45.230 --> 00:13:47.270
- WE PAID CASH FOR THAT BUILDING.
- 00:13:47.270 --> 00:13:49.200
- AND THEN WE SAW THE SUCCESS OF
- 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.160
- GOD.
- 00:13:51.160 --> 00:13:51.270
- - YES.
- 00:13:51.270 --> 00:13:53.000
- - WE WANT THE BLESSINGS BUT
- 00:13:53.070 --> 00:13:56.070
- WE'RE NOT PREPARED.
- 00:13:56.070 --> 00:13:57.150
- - I THINK THAT'S SO CRUCIAL
- 00:13:57.150 --> 00:13:59.080
- WITH SO MANY PASTORS THAT ARE
- 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:01.120
- WATCHING RIGHT NOW AND HEARING
- 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:02.040
- YOUR SIDE OF IT, BECAUSE THEY
- 00:14:02.040 --> 00:14:03.060
- LOOK AT IT AND THEY SAY, WELL,
- 00:14:03.060 --> 00:14:05.020
- HE'S SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF THIS,
- 00:14:05.020 --> 00:14:06.050
- BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THE
- 00:14:06.050 --> 00:14:07.040
- BEGINNING PART OF IT.
- 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:08.160
- AND THE SACRIFICE THAT YOU DID
- 00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:09.250
- AND THE PLANNINGS THAT YOU DID
- 00:14:09.250 --> 00:14:12.140
- AND THE INTENTIONALITY OF
- 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:15.280
- SAVING.
- 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:16.080
- OF SAVING.
- 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:17.290
- - CUT BACK AND BEGIN TO SAVE
- 00:14:17.290 --> 00:14:19.090
- AND I JUST BEGAN TO SAVE MONEY.
- 00:14:19.090 --> 00:14:20.290
- I TOLD MY TEAM, LET'S CUT BACK.
- 00:14:20.290 --> 00:14:23.210
- WE JUST STARTED STACKING MONEY.
- 00:14:23.210 --> 00:14:25.180
- AND I'LL NEVER FORGET, THE
- 00:14:25.180 --> 00:14:27.250
- MOMENT, THE ACTUAL MOMENT THAT
- 00:14:27.250 --> 00:14:28.240
- WE SAVED A MILLION, THAT'S WHEN
- 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.080
- THE E-MAIL CAME -- NOT THE
- 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:32.210
- E-MAIL BACK THEN, THE FAX!
- 00:14:32.210 --> 00:14:34.210
- THE FAX CAME THROUGH OF A CHURCH
- 00:14:34.210 --> 00:14:36.150
- BEING ON SALE AND FIVE OTHER
- 00:14:36.150 --> 00:14:38.270
- CHURCHES IN THERE LOOKING AT THE
- 00:14:38.270 --> 00:14:40.100
- BUILDING AND I FOUND THE PASS
- 00:14:40.100 --> 00:14:41.050
- TAR ANPASTORAND I SAID, I GOT C!
- 00:14:44.230 --> 00:14:47.230
- HE SAID, I NEED EVERYBODY TO
- 00:14:47.230 --> 00:14:49.170
- CLEAR THE ROOM!
- 00:14:49.170 --> 00:14:51.160
- [ LAUGHTER ]
- 00:14:51.160 --> 00:14:52.010
- - AND WE ENDED UP PAYING --
- 00:14:52.010 --> 00:14:53.290
- - A LOT OF IT!
- 00:14:53.290 --> 00:14:56.100
- - -- PAYING CASH FOR THE CHURCH
- 00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:57.200
- THAT WE NOW CALL THE TABERNACLE.
- 00:14:58.070 --> 00:15:01.090
- THEN WE WALKED DOWN THE STREET,
- 00:15:01.090 --> 00:15:03.100
- IT WAS ANOTHER CHURCH AVAILABLE,
- 00:15:03.100 --> 00:15:04.130
- WE PAID CASH FOR THAT.
- 00:15:04.130 --> 00:15:06.140
- WE PAID CASH FOR A HOUSE TO
- 00:15:06.140 --> 00:15:08.010
- START OUR CHILDREN'S MINISTRY.
- 00:15:08.010 --> 00:15:09.250
- THE WAY WE WERE ABLE TO DO IT IS
- 00:15:09.250 --> 00:15:11.270
- BECAUSE WE WERE PREPARED FOR THE
- 00:15:11.270 --> 00:15:12.200
- BLESSING AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
- 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.260
- EVERYONE, THAT'S MINISTRY,
- 00:15:14.260 --> 00:15:15.250
- THAT'S BUSINESS, THAT'S EVEN
- 00:15:15.250 --> 00:15:17.250
- YOUR PERSONAL.
- 00:15:17.250 --> 00:15:18.270
- PREPARATION.
- 00:15:18.270 --> 00:15:19.190
- YOU'VE GOT TO BE PREPARED SO
- 00:15:19.190 --> 00:15:20.140
- WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS ON
- 00:15:20.140 --> 00:15:21.160
- THE DOOR, YOU'RE READY TO OPEN
- 00:15:21.160 --> 00:15:22.260
- THAT DOOR.
- 00:15:22.260 --> 00:15:23.200
- NOW YOU CAN RECEIVE YOUR
- 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:24.230
- BLESSING.
- 00:15:24.230 --> 00:15:25.040
- - THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:26.130
- IF THERE'S ANYTHING ABOUT YOU
- 00:15:26.130 --> 00:15:28.100
- JOHN, I'VE NOTICED, EVEN WHEN
- 00:15:28.100 --> 00:15:29.280
- YOU WERE NOT EVEN PREACHING, YOU
- 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:31.200
- WERE WITH US AT NORTH SIDE, YOU
- 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.170
- WERE ALWAYS AT THE ALTAR
- 00:15:33.170 --> 00:15:36.090
- KNEELING.
- 00:15:36.090 --> 00:15:36.200
- WEEPING BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF
- 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:39.120
- GOD.
- 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:39.260
- AND I THINK THAT YOUR BOOK
- 00:15:39.260 --> 00:15:41.200
- DESCRIBES A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
- 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.140
- WHAT YOU YEARN, RIGHT?
- 00:15:43.140 --> 00:15:45.010
- HIS BOOK IS CALLED "DESPERATE
- 00:15:45.010 --> 00:15:46.280
- FOR JESUS," AND I WANT YOU TO
- 00:15:46.280 --> 00:15:49.070
- TAKE A LOOK AT HIS BIBLE AND
- 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.080
- WE'LL COME RIGHT BACK AND TALK
- 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.050
- ABOUT HIS BOOK ACCOUNTS "DESPERR
- 00:15:58.290 --> 00:16:02.010
- JESUS."
- 00:16:02.010 --> 00:16:03.180
- - AMID EARLY CHILDHOOD
- 00:16:03.180 --> 00:16:04.090
- CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES, PASTOR
- 00:16:04.090 --> 00:16:06.100
- HANNAH HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNIQUELY
- 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:08.180
- ANOINTED, HIS WIT, INTUITIVE
- 00:16:08.180 --> 00:16:10.090
- NATURE AND CALM DEGREE MEE NOR
- 00:16:10.090 --> 00:16:11.210
- HAS SERVED HIM WELL IN
- 00:16:11.210 --> 00:16:13.190
- TRANSFORMING LIVES FOR THE
- 00:16:13.190 --> 00:16:14.140
- KINGDOM OF GOD.
- 00:16:14.140 --> 00:16:15.260
- AS SENIOR PASTOR SOUTHEAST, JOHN
- 00:16:15.260 --> 00:16:17.270
- IS RADICALLY TRANSFORMING THE
- 00:16:17.270 --> 00:16:20.000
- WAY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE GOD'S LOVE
- 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:21.140
- WITH A MEMBERSHIP OF 30.000 AND
- 00:16:21.270 --> 00:16:24.270
- GROWING.
- 00:16:24.270 --> 00:16:25.220
- NEW LIFE COVENANT CHURCH
- 00:16:25.220 --> 00:16:26.280
- SOUTHEAST PROMOTES A FAMILY
- 00:16:26.280 --> 00:16:28.110
- ENVIRONMENT OF CLOSENESS THAT'S
- 00:16:28.110 --> 00:16:29.240
- COMMITTED TO SERVING GOD AND THE
- 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:31.290
- COMMUNITY.
- 00:16:31.290 --> 00:16:32.100
- JOHN HAS TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE
- 00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:33.190
- WORLD PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND
- 00:16:33.190 --> 00:16:35.030
- GOD HAS AFFORDED HIM THE
- 00:16:35.030 --> 00:16:36.220
- OPPORTUNITY TO MINISTER IN
- 00:16:36.220 --> 00:16:38.180
- AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, MALAYSIA, AND
- 00:16:38.180 --> 00:16:40.230
- PANAMA.
- 00:16:40.230 --> 00:16:41.030
- HE IS A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND A
- 00:16:41.030 --> 00:16:42.270
- HUMBLE MAN OF GOD WITH A SINCERE
- 00:16:42.270 --> 00:16:45.090
- DESIRE TO REACH EVERY SOUL.
- 00:16:45.150 --> 00:16:48.150
- HIS UNIQUE HUMOUR, CHARISMATIC
- 00:16:48.150 --> 00:16:50.190
- NATURE, AND COMICAL PERSONALITY
- 00:16:50.190 --> 00:16:53.000
- HELP BRING TO LIFE HIS OWN
- 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.060
- NATIONALLY SYNDICATED RADIO
- 00:16:55.060 --> 00:16:57.140
- SHOW, THE JOHN HANNAH MORNING
- 00:16:57.140 --> 00:16:58.240
- SHOW BRINGING 13 YEARS OF
- 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.080
- LAUGHTER AND POSITIVE CHANGE ALL
- 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:01.250
- WHILE ENRICHING THE LIVES OF
- 00:17:01.250 --> 00:17:03.150
- THOUSANDS.
- 00:17:03.150 --> 00:17:03.270
- PASTOR HANNAH'S MISSION IS TO
- 00:17:03.270 --> 00:17:05.240
- ENSURE THAT GOD'S PEOPLE
- 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.030
- EXPERIENCE HIS POWER, GLORY AND
- 00:17:07.030 --> 00:17:08.290
- ANOINTING ON A CONSISTENT BASIS.
- 00:17:08.290 --> 00:17:10.160
- HERE ON PRAISE, PASTOR JOHN
- 00:17:11.210 --> 00:17:14.210
- HANNAH!
- 00:17:14.210 --> 00:17:15.030
- [ Cheering and Applause ]
- 00:17:15.080 --> 00:17:18.080
- - WELCOME BACK.
- 00:17:18.210 --> 00:17:21.210
- IF YOU'RE JUST TUNING IN, I'M
- 00:17:21.210 --> 00:17:23.150
- HERE WITH PASTOR JOHN HANNAH AND
- 00:17:23.150 --> 00:17:25.110
- YOU'RE CATCHING THE BEST PART,
- 00:17:25.170 --> 00:17:28.170
- "DEBT PRATT FOR JESUS" IS HIS
- 00:17:28.170 --> 00:17:30.280
- BOOK AND I WANTED JOHN TO TALK
- 00:17:30.280 --> 00:17:32.270
- ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THIS AND
- 00:17:32.270 --> 00:17:33.200
- I SHARED EARLIER THAT WHEN JOHN
- 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.190
- WAS AT OUR CHURCH AND I WAS
- 00:17:35.190 --> 00:17:38.110
- PREACHING, HE WAS ALWAYS AT THE
- 00:17:38.110 --> 00:17:39.100
- ALTAR KNEELING DOWN, WEEPING
- 00:17:39.100 --> 00:17:41.110
- BEFORE GOD, HIS PRESENCE.
- 00:17:41.110 --> 00:17:43.230
- WHAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THIS
- 00:17:43.230 --> 00:17:45.230
- BOOK, DESPERATE FOR JESUS, JOHN?
- 00:17:45.230 --> 00:17:48.230
- - SO I ACCEPTED CHRIST AT THE
- 00:17:48.230 --> 00:17:51.050
- AGE OF 17.
- 00:17:51.050 --> 00:17:51.240
- I WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL.
- 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:54.240
- BORN AND RAISED IN CHURCH WITH
- 00:17:55.060 --> 00:17:58.060
- LITERALLY MY SPIRITUAL BIRTHDAY
- 00:17:58.060 --> 00:18:00.070
- WAS WHEN I WAS 17.
- 00:18:00.070 --> 00:18:02.200
- I AM NOW 55.
- 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.000
- AND SO 30-PLUS YEARS, GOD HAS
- 00:18:07.020 --> 00:18:10.020
- KEPT ME.
- 00:18:10.020 --> 00:18:12.180
- IN CHURCH, I'VE SEEN SOME IN
- 00:18:12.180 --> 00:18:14.180
- CHURCH FOR YEARS THAT THEY
- 00:18:14.180 --> 00:18:16.080
- BECOME COMMON WITH GOD.
- 00:18:16.080 --> 00:18:17.130
- THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE HUNGER,
- 00:18:17.130 --> 00:18:18.270
- THE THIRST.
- 00:18:18.270 --> 00:18:19.290
- YOU EVEN HAVE TO BEG THEM TO
- 00:18:19.290 --> 00:18:21.070
- COME TO BIBLE STUDY, COME TO
- 00:18:21.070 --> 00:18:23.290
- PRAYER, AND EVEN WHEN THEY'RE IN
- 00:18:23.290 --> 00:18:25.130
- THE PRESENCE OF GOD, THEY
- 00:18:25.130 --> 00:18:27.140
- RELUCTANTLY LIFT THEIR HANDS AND
- 00:18:27.140 --> 00:18:28.240
- I WAS, LIKE, HOW DID YOU -- THE
- 00:18:29.070 --> 00:18:32.070
- SCRIPTURE THAT COMES TO ME, YOU
- 00:18:32.070 --> 00:18:35.050
- DID RUN WELL.
- 00:18:35.050 --> 00:18:36.220
- WHO HINDERED YOU?
- 00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:38.060
- WHAT STOPPED YOUR WORSHIP AND
- 00:18:38.060 --> 00:18:40.070
- HUNGER, WHAT STOPPED YOUR THIRST
- 00:18:40.070 --> 00:18:41.110
- AND I USED TO SAY TO THE NEXT
- 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:44.180
- GUY, PLEASE NEVER LET ME ...
- 00:18:49.230 --> 00:18:52.230
- [Applause]
- 00:18:56.100 --> 00:18:59.100
- - OKAY.
- 00:18:59.100 --> 00:19:00.070
- NEVER LET ME LOSE THAT THIRST,
- 00:19:00.100 --> 00:19:03.100
- THAT HUNGER.
- 00:19:03.130 --> 00:19:06.130
- LIFE CAN HIT.
- 00:19:06.130 --> 00:19:07.120
- THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT CAN
- 00:19:07.120 --> 00:19:08.180
- KNOCK THE WIND OUT OF YOU, THAT
- 00:19:08.180 --> 00:19:11.030
- IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, IT WOULD
- 00:19:12.150 --> 00:19:15.150
- TAKE YOUR PASSION, YOUR HUNGER,
- 00:19:15.150 --> 00:19:17.090
- BECAUSE THERE'S A PART OF YOU
- 00:19:17.090 --> 00:19:19.190
- THAT YOU HOLD GOD GUILTY OF YOUR
- 00:19:19.190 --> 00:19:22.070
- LIFE ENCOUNTERS.
- 00:19:22.070 --> 00:19:23.240
- AND THAT IS WHAT THE ENEMY SAID
- 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:26.200
- THAT JOB WOULD DO IF YOU LET ME,
- 00:19:28.010 --> 00:19:31.010
- I'LL EFFECT WORSHIP.
- 00:19:31.010 --> 00:19:32.140
- IF YOU LET ME AT HIM, I'LL TAKE
- 00:19:32.140 --> 00:19:34.120
- HIS PASSION, BUT THE LORD KNEW
- 00:19:34.120 --> 00:19:36.060
- HE COULD HANDLE IT.
- 00:19:36.060 --> 00:19:38.270
- AND SO GOD, THE BEST REVELATION
- 00:19:38.270 --> 00:19:41.260
- TO GET IS GOD GAVE THE ENEMY
- 00:19:43.260 --> 00:19:46.260
- PERMISSION.
- 00:19:46.260 --> 00:19:47.080
- THE DEVIL CAN'T DO ANYTHING
- 00:19:47.080 --> 00:19:48.090
- WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF GOD.
- 00:19:48.090 --> 00:19:50.000
- - COME ON, COME ON.
- 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:51.230
- THAT'S A GOOD WORD.
- 00:19:51.230 --> 00:19:54.010
- [Applause]
- 00:19:54.010 --> 00:19:54.150
- - A GOOD WORD.
- 00:19:54.150 --> 00:19:55.060
- AND YOU MENTIONED JOB, JOHN,
- 00:19:55.060 --> 00:19:57.280
- BECAUSE IF WE NOTICE IN THE
- 00:19:57.280 --> 00:20:00.030
- SCRIPTURE, THE FIRST THING THE
- 00:20:00.030 --> 00:20:01.260
- ENEMY CAME AFTER WASN'T JOB'S
- 00:20:01.260 --> 00:20:03.230
- MONEY.
- 00:20:03.230 --> 00:20:04.020
- IT WASN'T HIS HOUSE, HIS 401k
- 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.200
- PLAN.
- 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:07.290
- THE FIRST THING HE CAME AFTER
- 00:20:07.290 --> 00:20:09.210
- WAS THE ANIMALS.
- 00:20:09.210 --> 00:20:10.140
- IT WAS THE ANIMALS, BECAUSE JOB
- 00:20:10.270 --> 00:20:13.270
- WOULD USE THOSE ANIMALS TO
- 00:20:13.270 --> 00:20:16.120
- SACRIFICE TO THE LORD.
- 00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:17.140
- HIS WORSHIP TO THE LORD.
- 00:20:17.210 --> 00:20:20.210
- AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR
- 00:20:20.210 --> 00:20:22.290
- CULTURE, JOHN, THAT WE ARE
- 00:20:22.290 --> 00:20:25.000
- LOSING THIS DESPERATENESS FOR
- 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.030
- JESUS?
- 00:20:27.030 --> 00:20:28.020
- - BECAUSE WE LIVE IN THE
- 00:20:28.020 --> 00:20:30.100
- "SELFIE" GENERATION.
- 00:20:30.100 --> 00:20:31.200
- THE SELFIE GENERATION.
- 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:33.150
- I MEAN, WE'RE ENCOURAGED, POST
- 00:20:33.150 --> 00:20:35.280
- YOURSELF.
- 00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:36.090
- TALK ABOUT YOURSELF.
- 00:20:36.090 --> 00:20:37.240
- CREATE YOUR BRAND.
- 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:39.030
- PUSH YOURSELF.
- 00:20:39.030 --> 00:20:40.160
- WE'RE LIVING IN A SELFIE
- 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:42.130
- GENERATION AND THE MORE OF YOU
- 00:20:42.130 --> 00:20:44.170
- YOU PUSH, THE MORE HE DECREASES.
- 00:20:44.170 --> 00:20:46.230
- AND SO WITH THAT BEING SAID,
- 00:20:46.230 --> 00:20:49.180
- EVERYBODY'S OUT TO CREATE THE
- 00:20:49.180 --> 00:20:51.020
- BRAND, AND I BELIEVE IN THIS,
- 00:20:51.020 --> 00:20:53.060
- BUT HE HAS TO BE PRIORITY.
- 00:20:53.060 --> 00:20:55.140
- - YES, YES.
- 00:20:55.140 --> 00:20:58.020
- - HE HAS TO BE ... [Applause]
- 00:20:59.060 --> 00:21:02.080
- - JOHN THE BAPTIST SAYS I MUST
- 00:21:02.080 --> 00:21:04.150
- DECREASE AS HE INCREASES.
- 00:21:04.150 --> 00:21:05.290
- SO EVEN IF YOU SEE ME, HOPEFULLY
- 00:21:05.290 --> 00:21:08.210
- YOU SEE CHRIST.
- 00:21:10.010 --> 00:21:13.010
- WE JUST HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT
- 00:21:13.010 --> 00:21:14.110
- WE DON'T MINIMIZE EVEN OUR
- 00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:17.180
- MINISTRIES.
- 00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:18.000
- EVEN OUR POSITIONS, OUR TITLES,
- 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:20.140
- OUR NAMES.
- 00:21:20.140 --> 00:21:21.060
- I'M NOTICING WE'RE BUILDING UP
- 00:21:21.060 --> 00:21:22.290
- OUR CHURCHES AND PASTORS AND
- 00:21:22.290 --> 00:21:25.220
- DENOMINATIONS AND WE'RE
- 00:21:25.220 --> 00:21:28.020
- WORSHIPING THAT MORE THAN WE'RE
- 00:21:28.020 --> 00:21:30.040
- WORSHIPING HIM.
- 00:21:30.040 --> 00:21:30.290
- SO I LIVE ON THE ALTAR.
- 00:21:30.290 --> 00:21:33.090
- I PRAY THAT I NEVER -- I WANT TO
- 00:21:33.090 --> 00:21:36.050
- ALWAYS BE SENSITIVE TO HIS
- 00:21:36.050 --> 00:21:38.100
- PRESENCE.
- 00:21:38.100 --> 00:21:38.210
- I NEVER WANT TO BE LIKE SAMSON.
- 00:21:38.270 --> 00:21:41.270
- THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN THEY WOKE
- 00:21:41.270 --> 00:21:43.060
- HIM UP, HE SAYS, I'LL JUST GO
- 00:21:43.060 --> 00:21:45.110
- OUT AND SHAKE YOURSEL MYSELF ASD
- 00:21:46.270 --> 00:21:49.270
- BEFORE.
- 00:21:49.270 --> 00:21:50.070
- THAT ONE LINE.
- 00:21:50.070 --> 00:21:51.170
- HE KNEW NOT THAT THE LORD HAD
- 00:21:51.170 --> 00:21:53.290
- DEPARTED.
- 00:21:53.290 --> 00:21:54.230
- LORD, IF I GET UP AND YOU'RE NOT
- 00:21:55.110 --> 00:21:58.110
- THERE, LET ME BEGIN TO SHAKE.
- 00:21:58.110 --> 00:22:00.090
- LET ME BEGIN TO HUNGER AND
- 00:22:00.090 --> 00:22:02.270
- THIRST YOU FOR YOU THAT YOU
- 00:22:02.270 --> 00:22:04.150
- CANNOT GET TOO FAR AWAY FROM ME.
- 00:22:04.150 --> 00:22:07.060
- YOU KNOW, WHEN ELIJAH AND THEY
- 00:22:07.100 --> 00:22:10.100
- TRAVELLED THROUGH THOSE FIVE
- 00:22:10.100 --> 00:22:11.260
- CITIES AND ELIJAH, THE MENTEE
- 00:22:14.170 --> 00:22:17.170
- PICKED UP THE MENTOR AND HE
- 00:22:17.170 --> 00:22:19.210
- CROSSED OVER THE JORDAN RIVER
- 00:22:19.210 --> 00:22:21.180
- AND THE RIVER WAS CLOSED.
- 00:22:21.180 --> 00:22:22.250
- HE MET UP WITH SOME PEOPLE FROM
- 00:22:22.250 --> 00:22:24.110
- A TOWN AND THEY SAID TO HIM, I'M
- 00:22:24.110 --> 00:22:26.180
- A FIRM BELIEVER THAT HE
- 00:22:26.180 --> 00:22:27.190
- REPRESENTED THE CHURCH, AND THEY
- 00:22:27.190 --> 00:22:29.010
- SAID TO HIM, CAN YOU CHANGE THIS
- 00:22:29.010 --> 00:22:31.260
- BITTER WATER TO SWEET?
- 00:22:31.260 --> 00:22:34.180
- AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN AMERICA
- 00:22:34.180 --> 00:22:36.150
- IS THAT WE HAVE A CULTURE THAT'S
- 00:22:36.150 --> 00:22:37.290
- DRINKING BITTER WATER AND
- 00:22:37.290 --> 00:22:40.030
- THEY'RE ASKING THE CHURCH, LIKE,
- 00:22:40.030 --> 00:22:42.240
- IN PSALMS 42, WHERE ARE YOU,
- 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:45.180
- GOD?
- 00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:45.260
- WHERE'S THE POWER?
- 00:22:45.260 --> 00:22:48.030
- AND I THINK THIS DESPERATE FOR
- 00:22:48.030 --> 00:22:50.040
- JESUS BOOK IS TALKING TO US THAT
- 00:22:50.040 --> 00:22:51.090
- WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE
- 00:22:51.090 --> 00:22:52.260
- BEGINNING.
- 00:22:52.260 --> 00:22:53.100
- KEEP YOUR PASSION.
- 00:22:53.100 --> 00:22:55.060
- - KEEP YOUR PASSION.
- 00:22:55.060 --> 00:22:56.160
- EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE, WE GOT
- 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.160
- BECAUSE WE LOVE HIM.
- 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:01.100
- SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM AND ALL
- 00:23:01.100 --> 00:23:03.070
- THIS OTHER STUFF WILL BE ADDED.
- 00:23:03.100 --> 00:23:06.100
- DO NOT SEEK THE STUFF.
- 00:23:06.100 --> 00:23:07.120
- - THAT'S A GOOD ORDER.
- 00:23:07.120 --> 00:23:09.050
- [Applause]
- 00:23:09.050 --> 00:23:09.170
- - THAT'S A GOOD ORDER.
- 00:23:09.170 --> 00:23:11.070
- AND EVERY NOW AND THEN, GOD WILL
- 00:23:11.070 --> 00:23:13.070
- DO CERTAIN THINGS TO JUST MAKE
- 00:23:13.070 --> 00:23:15.220
- SURE THAT YOU'RE DESPERATE FOR
- 00:23:15.220 --> 00:23:17.050
- HIM.
- 00:23:17.050 --> 00:23:17.150
- LIKE, WHEN HE TOLD ABRAHAM,
- 00:23:17.150 --> 00:23:19.200
- BRING ME YOUR ONLY SON.
- 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:24.160
- AND HE WILLFULLY WENT THERE AND
- 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:27.070
- PLACED HIS SON ON THE ALTAR,
- 00:23:27.170 --> 00:23:30.170
- BECAUSE I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO
- 00:23:30.170 --> 00:23:32.280
- EVER THINK THAT IT'S MORE THAN
- 00:23:32.280 --> 00:23:35.130
- YOU.
- 00:23:35.130 --> 00:23:36.010
- AND SO THAT DESPERATE THINK IS
- 00:23:36.010 --> 00:23:38.050
- FOR US TO CHECK OURSELVES TO
- 00:23:38.050 --> 00:23:40.060
- SAY, DO I WANT HIM OR DO I WANT
- 00:23:40.060 --> 00:23:42.040
- TO BE NOTICED?
- 00:23:42.040 --> 00:23:43.080
- DO I WANT HIM OR DO I WANT A
- 00:23:43.080 --> 00:23:45.150
- TITLE?
- 00:23:45.150 --> 00:23:45.240
- DO I WANT HIM OR I WANT TO BE
- 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.110
- NUMBER ONE?
- 00:23:48.110 --> 00:23:48.290
- AND EVERY NOW AND THEN, GOD WILL
- 00:23:48.290 --> 00:23:51.140
- MAKE US STOP TO CHECK OUR SEAT.
- 00:23:51.140 --> 00:23:54.130
- AND I PRAY THAT MY SEAT -- I
- 00:23:54.130 --> 00:23:56.250
- TOLD GOD, I WANT MY LAST BREATH
- 00:23:58.130 --> 00:24:01.150
- TO BE SEEKING YOU.
- 00:24:01.150 --> 00:24:02.140
- I WANT TO GROW OLD IN THE
- 00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:04.210
- CHURCH.
- 00:24:04.210 --> 00:24:05.010
- I WANT TO BE AN OLD MAN LIKE,
- 00:24:05.230 --> 00:24:08.230
- AH, AND WHEN I WAVE MY HAND, I
- 00:24:10.020 --> 00:24:13.020
- CAN STILL FEEL HIM.
- 00:24:14.260 --> 00:24:17.260
- PSALMS 42, JOHN.
- 00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:22.180
- AS THE COLD WATER SO MY SOUL
- 00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:24.270
- LONG AFTER ME AND I THINK WHAT
- 00:24:24.270 --> 00:24:27.010
- I'M SAYING IN THIS CULTURE,
- 00:24:27.010 --> 00:24:28.040
- THERE IS A SENSE OF LOSS OF
- 00:24:28.040 --> 00:24:30.260
- DESPERATION FOR THE PRESENCE OF
- 00:24:30.260 --> 00:24:32.130
- GOD.
- 00:24:32.130 --> 00:24:32.210
- WE'VE BECOME SO MECHANICAL THAT
- 00:24:32.210 --> 00:24:35.090
- WE DON'T CRY ANYMORE.
- 00:24:35.090 --> 00:24:36.190
- WE'RE NOT IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD
- 00:24:36.190 --> 00:24:38.200
- ANYMORE.
- 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:39.040
- WE COME IN, GET OUR 30-MINUTE
- 00:24:39.100 --> 00:24:42.100
- SERMON OR AN INSPIRATION, BUT WE
- 00:24:43.040 --> 00:24:46.040
- LEAVE OUT GOD'S PRESENCE.
- 00:24:46.170 --> 00:24:49.170
- - DECLARATION HAS DECREASED IN
- 00:24:49.170 --> 00:24:51.030
- AMERICA.
- 00:24:51.030 --> 00:24:51.140
- WHEN YOU TRAVEL THE WORLD, IT'S
- 00:24:52.070 --> 00:24:55.070
- DIFFERENT.
- 00:24:55.070 --> 00:24:55.290
- - WE TRAVELLED THE WORLD.
- 00:24:55.290 --> 00:24:57.140
- I WENT TO GO PREACH AT PASTOR
- 00:24:57.170 --> 00:25:00.190
- OUT'S CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA.
- 00:25:00.190 --> 00:25:02.210
- THE BUILDING SEATS 6.000.
- 00:25:02.210 --> 00:25:04.280
- THE OVERFLOW IS ANOTHER 2.000.
- 00:25:04.280 --> 00:25:06.230
- THEY EVEN HAVE A SCREEN OUTSIDE.
- 00:25:06.230 --> 00:25:09.010
- PEOPLE ARE STANDING UP IN PICKUP
- 00:25:09.010 --> 00:25:10.250
- TRUCKS PUTTING THEIR LIVES IN
- 00:25:10.250 --> 00:25:11.280
- DANGER.
- 00:25:11.280 --> 00:25:12.090
- THEY STREAM IT.
- 00:25:12.090 --> 00:25:13.070
- YOU CAN STAY HOME AND WATCH IT
- 00:25:13.070 --> 00:25:16.000
- ON FACEBOOK.
- 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:17.100
- THEY STILL SAY, I NEED TO GET IN
- 00:25:17.100 --> 00:25:19.120
- THE BUILDING.
- 00:25:19.120 --> 00:25:20.140
- THEY'RE PUTTING THEIR LIVES IN
- 00:25:20.140 --> 00:25:21.170
- DANGER TO GET IN THE BUILDING,
- 00:25:21.170 --> 00:25:23.210
- BUT WITH US, IF THE AIR'S NOT
- 00:25:24.010 --> 00:25:27.010
- WORKING, I'M NOT GOING.
- 00:25:27.010 --> 00:25:28.000
- I CAN'T FIND A PARKING SPACE, I
- 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.050
- AIN'T GOING.
- 00:25:30.050 --> 00:25:31.210
- PASTOR, I AIN'T PREACHING.
- 00:25:31.210 --> 00:25:33.150
- - YOU DIDN'T COME HERE FOR ME!
- 00:25:33.150 --> 00:25:34.280
- YOU CAME HERE FOR GOD, SO WE'RE
- 00:25:35.020 --> 00:25:38.020
- NOTICING AND AMERICA NEEDS TO
- 00:25:38.020 --> 00:25:39.110
- CHECK THEMSELVES, BECAUSE IF
- 00:25:39.110 --> 00:25:40.240
- WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, GOD WILL PULL
- 00:25:41.080 --> 00:25:44.080
- BACK TO BUILD A SEAT.
- 00:25:44.140 --> 00:25:47.140
- - THAT'S GOOD.
- 00:25:47.140 --> 00:25:50.090
- - GOD WILL PULL BACK JUST TO
- 00:25:50.090 --> 00:25:51.120
- GET A SEAT OUT OF US.
- 00:25:51.120 --> 00:25:54.120
- UNFORTUNATELY, DURING 9/11 WHEN
- 00:25:54.120 --> 00:25:56.060
- THE PLANES WENT THROUGH THAT
- 00:25:56.060 --> 00:25:57.150
- WORLD TRADE CENTER, AMERICA
- 00:25:57.150 --> 00:25:59.250
- GRABBED ON TO THE HORNS OF THE
- 00:25:59.250 --> 00:26:01.110
- ALTAR AND BEGAN TO SEEK GOD.
- 00:26:01.270 --> 00:26:04.270
- DON'T LET IT HAVE TO BE A
- 00:26:04.270 --> 00:26:07.010
- TRAGEDY TO MAKE YOU SEEK GOD.
- 00:26:07.010 --> 00:26:09.200
- THINK ABOUT HOW GOOD HE'S BEING.
- 00:26:09.260 --> 00:26:12.260
- HE CAN DO MORE.
- 00:26:12.260 --> 00:26:15.090
- - JOHN, EVERYONE KNOWS YOU AS
- 00:26:15.090 --> 00:26:16.100
- FAR AS A GREAT PREACHER, BUT
- 00:26:16.100 --> 00:26:18.080
- THERE IS ANOTHER ANOINTING
- 00:26:18.080 --> 00:26:19.280
- THAT'S ON YOU AND I WANT TO TALK
- 00:26:19.280 --> 00:26:22.100
- TO YOU ABOUT IT.
- 00:26:23.070 --> 00:26:26.070
- JOHN HAS THIS 4 a.m. PRAYER.
- 00:26:26.070 --> 00:26:28.030
- HE'S GOT THE SUNRISE PRAYER AND
- 00:26:28.130 --> 00:26:31.130
- THOUSANDS, THOUSANDS ARE COMING.
- 00:26:31.130 --> 00:26:33.030
- BUT JOHN, REMEMBER JOHN STARTED
- 00:26:33.030 --> 00:26:35.040
- FEEDING HOMELESS PEOPLE.
- 00:26:35.190 --> 00:26:38.190
- HUNGRY, THIRSTY FOR JESUS,
- 00:26:38.190 --> 00:26:40.060
- DESPERATE FOR HIM.
- 00:26:40.060 --> 00:26:41.010
- AND THIS NEW ANOINTING HAS BEEN
- 00:26:43.030 --> 00:26:46.030
- EVOLVING, IF YOU WILL, WHERE NOW
- 00:26:46.030 --> 00:26:47.190
- PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE
- 00:26:47.190 --> 00:26:48.290
- CALLING YOU TO COME LEAD IN
- 00:26:49.180 --> 00:26:52.180
- PRAYER IN THEIR CONFERENCES.
- 00:26:52.180 --> 00:26:54.150
- TALK TO US ABOUT THIS AND YOUR
- 00:26:54.150 --> 00:26:56.130
- PRAYER SHAWL HERE I'M SHOWING
- 00:26:56.130 --> 00:26:57.150
- HERE.
- 00:26:57.150 --> 00:26:59.010
- - I'M AMAZED THAT THERE'S AN
- 00:26:59.010 --> 00:27:01.040
- OPENING FOR PRAYER.
- 00:27:02.030 --> 00:27:05.030
- LIKE, I'M PRAYING AT 5:00 IN THE
- 00:27:05.030 --> 00:27:07.000
- MORNING IN OTHER STATES.
- 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:09.050
- AND THEN THE LORD, I CAN
- 00:27:09.050 --> 00:27:11.050
- HONESTLY SAY THIS.
- 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.160
- WE'VE MASTERED STRUCTURE.
- 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.260
- WE'VE MASTERED PROGRAMMING, BUT
- 00:27:17.260 --> 00:27:19.210
- WE DID IT WITHOUT PRAYER.
- 00:27:19.210 --> 00:27:22.010
- WE LITERALLY DID IT -- I HAD A
- 00:27:22.010 --> 00:27:24.050
- PASTOR TELL ME, I'M GOOD AT
- 00:27:24.050 --> 00:27:27.000
- PLANTING.
- 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:27.110
- I'M GOOD AT STRUCTURING.
- 00:27:27.110 --> 00:27:28.230
- I'M GOOD AT -- AND NICE STORIES,
- 00:27:29.090 --> 00:27:32.090
- BUT HE SAID, WE LACK PRAYER AND
- 00:27:32.090 --> 00:27:34.150
- I'M THINKING, HOW DID YOU GET
- 00:27:34.150 --> 00:27:37.030
- THIS WITHOUT PRAYER?
- 00:27:37.030 --> 00:27:39.000
- BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAID WHEN THEY
- 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:40.200
- GOT READY TO BUILD THE TOWER OF
- 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.260
- BABEL, HE SAID IF THESE PEOPLE
- 00:27:42.260 --> 00:27:44.110
- PUT THEIR MINDS TOGETHER,
- 00:27:44.110 --> 00:27:45.040
- THERE'S NOTHING THAT THEY CAN'T
- 00:27:45.040 --> 00:27:46.290
- DO.
- 00:27:46.290 --> 00:27:47.070
- YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT GOD?
- 00:27:47.210 --> 00:27:50.210
- THAT'S SCARY.
- 00:27:50.210 --> 00:27:51.120
- - THAT IS SCARY.
- 00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:53.240
- - BECAUSE JESUS WILL GET THE
- 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:54.270
- SUCCESS OF IT, BUT THE LORD SAID
- 00:27:54.270 --> 00:27:57.110
- TO ME, THE CHURCH HAS STOPPED
- 00:27:57.110 --> 00:27:59.070
- COMING TO ME.
- 00:27:59.070 --> 00:28:02.000
- SO YOUR ASSIGNMENT, I LOVE MY
- 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.230
- ASSIGNMENT!
- 00:28:04.230 --> 00:28:05.050
- COME THIS WAY.
- 00:28:05.050 --> 00:28:05.250
- THERE HE IS.
- 00:28:05.250 --> 00:28:08.130
- I SEE YOU.
- 00:28:08.130 --> 00:28:10.120
- - COME ON.
- 00:28:10.120 --> 00:28:11.180
- - I DON'T DELIVER YOU.
- 00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:12.160
- I DON'T HEAL YOU.
- 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:14.140
- I DON'T MAKE THE WAY FOR YOU.
- 00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:16.260
- I JUST USHER YOU INTO YOUR
- 00:28:16.260 --> 00:28:18.080
- PRESENCE AND THEN I BACK OFF AND
- 00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:20.160
- LET GOD BE GOD.
- 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:23.080
- I LOVE MY ASSIGNMENT.
- 00:28:23.080 --> 00:28:26.000
- AND SO WE THINK WHEN PEOPLE GET
- 00:28:27.210 --> 00:28:30.210
- SAVED, THEY SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY
- 00:28:30.210 --> 00:28:32.170
- HAVE A PRAYER LIFE, BUT THE
- 00:28:33.010 --> 00:28:36.010
- DICIPLES SAID TEACH US HOW TO
- 00:28:36.010 --> 00:28:38.240
- PRAY.
- 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.030
- GOD HAS OPENED THE DOOR, HOW TO
- 00:28:39.030 --> 00:28:41.250
- COME TO HIM BECAUSE YOU CAN'T
- 00:28:41.250 --> 00:28:43.160
- JUST COME WITH GIVE ME GIVE ME
- 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:45.060
- GIVE ME GIVE ME.
- 00:28:45.060 --> 00:28:46.120
- THAT BECOMES IRRITATING AFTER A
- 00:28:46.120 --> 00:28:47.290
- WHILE.
- 00:28:47.290 --> 00:28:48.080
- YOU ONLY COME TO ME WHEN YOU
- 00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:49.230
- WANT SOMETHING FROM ME.
- 00:28:49.230 --> 00:28:51.160
- SO IF YOU TEACH THEM ABOUT
- 00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:55.180
- ADORATION, HOW TO BUILD UP YOUR
- 00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:56.290
- HAVE TO CAB CLAIYOURVOCABULARY O
- 00:29:04.070 --> 00:29:07.070
- SAY, TELL THE PEOPLE TO GIVE ME
- 00:29:07.070 --> 00:29:08.270
- WHAT I'M USED TO.
- 00:29:08.270 --> 00:29:10.030
- TELL THEM TO GIVE ME -- LIKE,
- 00:29:10.030 --> 00:29:12.220
- WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT, GOD?
- 00:29:12.220 --> 00:29:14.160
- AND I HAD TO STUDY THE
- 00:29:16.010 --> 00:29:19.010
- SCRIPTURE.
- 00:29:19.010 --> 00:29:21.050
- NEVER STOP, HOLY HOLY HOLY.
- 00:29:23.070 --> 00:29:26.070
- AND IF THEY FLY, 24 ELDERS STAND
- 00:29:26.070 --> 00:29:28.150
- WHICH MEANS THAT WORSHIP AND
- 00:29:28.150 --> 00:29:29.210
- PRAYER IS RESPONSIVE.
- 00:29:29.210 --> 00:29:30.260
- YOU CAN'T BE IN THIS ATMOSPHERE
- 00:29:30.260 --> 00:29:32.280
- AND IT NOT GET ON YOU.
- 00:29:32.280 --> 00:29:35.100
- THE 24 ELDERS STAND, THROWING
- 00:29:35.100 --> 00:29:37.030
- DOWN THEIR CROWN.
- 00:29:37.030 --> 00:29:38.010
- IF YOU CREATE THIS ATMOSPHERE,
- 00:29:38.010 --> 00:29:40.220
- THE HOUSE HAS TO FALL IN ORDER.
- 00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:42.280
- SO THE LORD HAS SHOWN ME HOW TO
- 00:29:44.100 --> 00:29:47.100
- CREATE THIS ATMOSPHERE, AND WE
- 00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:49.040
- STARTED TO SING IT.
- 00:29:49.040 --> 00:29:50.210
- 11 YEARS AGO, WE STARTED PRAYING
- 00:29:50.210 --> 00:29:53.050
- AT 4 a.m. AND I HAD TO DO IT
- 00:29:53.050 --> 00:29:55.030
- AT 4 BECAUSE I HAD TO BE AT THE
- 00:29:55.030 --> 00:29:57.060
- RADIO STATION TO START MY SHOW
- 00:29:57.060 --> 00:29:58.160
- AT 6 AND I WAS, LIKE, 4:00 FOR
- 00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.240
- REAL?
- 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:03.080
- NOBODY'S COMING.
- 00:30:03.080 --> 00:30:04.060
- AND TO MY SURPRISE, OVER 100
- 00:30:04.110 --> 00:30:07.110
- PEOPLE SHOWED UP.
- 00:30:07.110 --> 00:30:08.100
- - THAT'S AWESOME.
- 00:30:08.100 --> 00:30:10.280
- - SO EVERY SECOND OPPORTUNITY,
- 00:30:10.280 --> 00:30:12.030
- WE HAVE 4 a.m. PRAYERS AND IT
- 00:30:12.030 --> 00:30:14.130
- WENT FROM 100 TO 200.
- 00:30:14.130 --> 00:30:16.000
- THEN NOW WE AVERAGE BETWEEN 300
- 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.120
- AND 500 PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING.
- 00:30:18.120 --> 00:30:19.280
- NOW DUE TO TECHNOLOGY, DUE TO
- 00:30:19.280 --> 00:30:22.060
- FACEBOOK, DUE TO STREAMING, WE
- 00:30:22.060 --> 00:30:24.130
- AVERAGE 10.000 PEOPLE.
- 00:30:24.130 --> 00:30:26.120
- - WOW.
- 00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:26.290
- - AROUND THE WORLD IN PRAYER.
- 00:30:26.290 --> 00:30:29.210
- - WOW, WOW.
- 00:30:29.210 --> 00:30:30.270
- - I'M AMAZED AT IT, BUT THEN I
- 00:30:30.270 --> 00:30:32.200
- HEAR THE TESTIMONIES.
- 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.160
- YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO PRAY.
- 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:35.220
- YOU PUSHED ME IN PRAYER.
- 00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:37.190
- YOU PUT A HUNGER IN ME THAT I
- 00:30:37.190 --> 00:30:40.110
- WANT TO PRAY.
- 00:30:40.110 --> 00:30:41.120
- SO THAT IS MY ASSIGNMENT.
- 00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:43.030
- AND IT'S A GREAT ASSIGNMENT.
- 00:30:43.030 --> 00:30:44.290
- - ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT
- 00:30:44.290 --> 00:30:47.130
- CHURCHES AND MINISTRY, I DID MY
- 00:30:48.010 --> 00:30:51.010
- DOCTORATE ON HEALTHINESS AND THE
- 00:30:51.070 --> 00:30:54.070
- SIGN OF A HEALTHY MINISTRY IS
- 00:30:54.070 --> 00:30:56.110
- THEIR PRAYER LIFE.
- 00:30:56.110 --> 00:30:57.110
- THAT'S A SIGN OF A HEALTHY
- 00:30:57.110 --> 00:30:59.270
- CHURCH OR A YOUTH PASTOR OR A
- 00:30:59.270 --> 00:31:01.230
- PASTOR, HOW IS YOUR PRAYER LIFE?
- 00:31:01.230 --> 00:31:03.160
- IN THE MORNING, ONE OF THE
- 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:04.230
- THINGS I DO IN THE MORNING IS
- 00:31:04.230 --> 00:31:05.290
- GET UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND
- 00:31:05.290 --> 00:31:07.080
- DO MY DEVOTIONS AND JUST GET
- 00:31:07.080 --> 00:31:09.210
- INTO IT WITH THE LORD AND IN THE
- 00:31:09.210 --> 00:31:11.080
- PRESENCE OF GOD, BUT THIS THING
- 00:31:11.080 --> 00:31:13.070
- HERE THE LORD HAS GOT YOU IN
- 00:31:13.070 --> 00:31:14.240
- THIS ASSIGNMENT, JOHN, IT'S
- 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:17.160
- ALMOST LIKE AN APOSTLE OF
- 00:31:17.190 --> 00:31:20.190
- PRAYER.
- 00:31:20.190 --> 00:31:21.250
- - YEAH, YEAH!
- 00:31:21.250 --> 00:31:24.020
- [ LAUGHTER ]
- 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:28.160
- - YOU NOW HAVE THIS ANOINTING
- 00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:30.100
- TO LEAD PEOPLE.
- 00:31:30.100 --> 00:31:32.000
- YOU'RE LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST.
- 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:33.270
- JOHN THE BAPTIST WHO SAID,
- 00:31:33.270 --> 00:31:35.130
- BEHOLD, THE LAMB OF GOD WHO
- 00:31:35.130 --> 00:31:37.290
- POINTED THE WAY AND IT'S JUST SO
- 00:31:37.290 --> 00:31:40.040
- REFRESHING, JOHN, BECAUSE I SAW
- 00:31:40.040 --> 00:31:42.160
- YOU WHEN YOU WERE NOBODY.
- 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:44.210
- I SAW YOU THERE IN HUMBLE PARK
- 00:31:44.210 --> 00:31:46.210
- WHEN THERE WAS ONLY 100 OF US OR
- 00:31:46.210 --> 00:31:49.030
- 200.
- 00:31:49.030 --> 00:31:49.110
- WHILE I WAS PREACHING, YOU WERE
- 00:31:49.110 --> 00:31:50.220
- ALREADY PRAYING AND GOD WAS
- 00:31:50.220 --> 00:31:52.020
- PLANTING THIS IN YOUR HEART AND
- 00:31:52.020 --> 00:31:53.040
- GOD HAS TAKEN YOU TO AR TO A NEW
- 00:31:53.220 --> 00:31:56.220
- LEVEL.
- 00:31:56.220 --> 00:31:57.120
- JOHN, WE CELEBRATE AND I THINK
- 00:31:57.120 --> 00:31:58.290
- THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO
- 00:31:58.290 --> 00:32:00.070
- AS A BODY OF CHRIST IS CELEBRATE
- 00:32:00.070 --> 00:32:02.150
- ONE ANOTHER.
- 00:32:02.150 --> 00:32:03.060
- - ONE THING I LOVE ABOUT US, WE
- 00:32:03.230 --> 00:32:06.230
- ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER.
- 00:32:06.230 --> 00:32:08.170
- LIKE, EVERY TIME YOU HAVE
- 00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:10.060
- SOMETHING, I'M, LIKE, OH, MY
- 00:32:10.060 --> 00:32:11.270
- GOD!
- 00:32:11.270 --> 00:32:12.060
- AND EVERY TIME I HAVE SOMETHING,
- 00:32:12.060 --> 00:32:14.230
- BRO, BRO!
- 00:32:14.230 --> 00:32:15.220
- THAT'S HIS WORD.
- 00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:16.240
- I'M, LIKE, CHOCO!
- 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:18.210
- SO IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THAT.
- 00:32:18.280 --> 00:32:21.280
- IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THE
- 00:32:21.280 --> 00:32:24.170
- RELATIONSHIP OF SOMEONE WHO IS
- 00:32:24.170 --> 00:32:26.040
- GOING TO FAN YOUR FIRE.
- 00:32:26.040 --> 00:32:29.010
- AND NOT BLOW YOUR FIRE OUT.
- 00:32:29.210 --> 00:32:32.210
- - WE HAVE -- YOU ALREADY HEARD
- 00:32:32.210 --> 00:32:33.270
- WE PLANTED HIM IN 2004.
- 00:32:33.270 --> 00:32:36.010
- AND YOU ALREADY SAW A VIDEO
- 00:32:36.010 --> 00:32:37.240
- WHERE THEY HAVE MEMBERSHIP OF
- 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.040
- CLOSE TO 30.000.
- 00:32:39.040 --> 00:32:41.040
- HE OUTGREW THE MOTHER CHURCH.
- 00:32:41.040 --> 00:32:43.080
- AND WHAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IS
- 00:32:43.080 --> 00:32:45.270
- HOW YOU HONOUR, JOHN.
- 00:32:45.270 --> 00:32:47.270
- HOW YOU HONOURED THE CHURCH THAT
- 00:32:47.270 --> 00:32:50.120
- PLANTED YOU.
- 00:32:50.120 --> 00:32:51.250
- AND FOR 14, 15 YEARS NOW.
- 00:32:52.080 --> 00:32:55.080
- - 15.
- 00:32:55.080 --> 00:32:56.170
- - FOR 15 YEARS, HE'S ALWAYS
- 00:32:56.170 --> 00:32:58.110
- SENT HIS TIDINGS TO THE CHURCH
- 00:32:58.110 --> 00:32:59.270
- THAT PLANTED HIM, FAITHFULLY
- 00:32:59.270 --> 00:33:01.240
- EVERY MONTH, EVERY MONTH.
- 00:33:03.050 --> 00:33:06.050
- [Applause]
- 00:33:06.050 --> 00:33:06.190
- - AND WE'RE JUST SO -- WE
- 00:33:06.190 --> 00:33:08.200
- CELEBRATE YOU, JOHN.
- 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:09.190
- WE THANK GOD FOR YOU.
- 00:33:09.190 --> 00:33:11.120
- JOHN IS RIGHT NOW IN A NEW
- 00:33:11.120 --> 00:33:13.270
- PROJECT BUILDING AT HIS NEW
- 00:33:13.270 --> 00:33:15.290
- FACILITY.
- 00:33:15.290 --> 00:33:16.100
- WHY DON'T YOU QUICKLY TELL US A
- 00:33:16.100 --> 00:33:17.120
- LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT'S
- 00:33:17.120 --> 00:33:18.030
- HAPPENING WITH THAT?
- 00:33:18.030 --> 00:33:20.270
- - I CAN NOW WRAP MYSELF IN MY
- 00:33:20.270 --> 00:33:23.120
- OWN PRAYER SCARF.
- 00:33:23.120 --> 00:33:25.020
- WE'RE BUILDING.
- 00:33:25.020 --> 00:33:26.010
- NOT BECAUSE WE WANT TO, BUT
- 00:33:26.010 --> 00:33:28.150
- BECAUSE WE HAVE TO.
- 00:33:29.060 --> 00:33:32.060
- NATIONALLY, PASTORS MONITOR YOUR
- 00:33:32.060 --> 00:33:33.250
- EGO AS YOU GROW.
- 00:33:33.290 --> 00:33:36.290
- DON'T BUILD BECAUSE YOU WANT TO
- 00:33:36.290 --> 00:33:38.050
- PROVE A POINT.
- 00:33:38.050 --> 00:33:39.180
- ONLY BUILD BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO
- 00:33:39.180 --> 00:33:41.210
- CHOICE.
- 00:33:41.210 --> 00:33:42.010
- WE'VE BEEN RENTING.
- 00:33:42.010 --> 00:33:44.030
- WE BOUGHT A CHURCH.
- 00:33:44.030 --> 00:33:45.080
- WE WERE ONLY ABLE TO BE THERE
- 00:33:45.080 --> 00:33:46.210
- FOR NINE MONTHS.
- 00:33:46.210 --> 00:33:47.270
- OTHER THAN, WE'VE HAD TO RENT IN
- 00:33:47.270 --> 00:33:49.170
- EVERY PLACE WE'VE GONE.
- 00:33:49.170 --> 00:33:50.270
- WE LOOKED AT ONE LOCATION AND WE
- 00:33:50.270 --> 00:33:53.000
- HAD ALREADY GIVEN THEM
- 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.250
- OVER $6 MILLION, SO WE HAVE TO
- 00:33:54.250 --> 00:33:55.230
- BUILD, BUT THE BUILDING PROJECT
- 00:33:55.230 --> 00:33:56.260
- HAS BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST
- 00:33:57.230 --> 00:34:00.250
- CHALLENGES THAT I'VE EVER HAD IN
- 00:34:00.250 --> 00:34:03.070
- MY ENTIRE LIFE.
- 00:34:03.070 --> 00:34:04.200
- SO HIM BE GLORY.
- 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:06.080
- WE'RE NOT BUILDING A CHURCH.
- 00:34:06.080 --> 00:34:07.130
- WE'RE BUILDING SOMETHING, IT'S A
- 00:34:08.030 --> 00:34:11.030
- CHURCH/PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
- 00:34:11.030 --> 00:34:12.270
- ONE OF THE THINGS OF MY DESIRE
- 00:34:12.270 --> 00:34:14.280
- IS TO BE SENSITIVE TO MY
- 00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:16.180
- COMMUNITY.
- 00:34:16.180 --> 00:34:17.000
- WHEN YOU'RE SENSITIVE TO YOUR
- 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:18.040
- COMMUNITY, YOU DON'T BUILD FOR
- 00:34:18.040 --> 00:34:19.110
- YOU, YOU BUILD FOR THEM.
- 00:34:19.110 --> 00:34:20.160
- - THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:34:20.160 --> 00:34:21.180
- - SO WE'RE BUILDING A
- 00:34:21.180 --> 00:34:22.210
- PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TO BRING
- 00:34:22.210 --> 00:34:23.230
- THE ARTS BACK TO THE CITY OF
- 00:34:23.230 --> 00:34:25.260
- CHICAGO, BACK TO THE SOUTH SIDE
- 00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:28.110
- OF CHICAGO.
- 00:34:28.110 --> 00:34:30.180
- IT'S SET UP TO SEAT 3800.
- 00:34:30.250 --> 00:34:33.250
- FULL LOBBY, FULL SOUND, FULL
- 00:34:33.250 --> 00:34:36.240
- LIGHTING SO THAT THE PLAYS AND
- 00:34:36.240 --> 00:34:39.060
- THE ARTS CAN COME BACK TO THE
- 00:34:39.060 --> 00:34:41.030
- SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, BECAUSE
- 00:34:41.030 --> 00:34:42.240
- IF YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON THE
- 00:34:42.240 --> 00:34:45.090
- HISTORY OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF
- 00:34:45.090 --> 00:34:47.170
- CHICAGO, SOME OF THE WORLD'S
- 00:34:47.170 --> 00:34:48.220
- GREATEST MUSICIANS AND DANCERS
- 00:34:48.220 --> 00:34:50.130
- AND WRITERS COME FROM THE SOUTH
- 00:34:50.130 --> 00:34:51.290
- SIDE OF CHICAGO.
- 00:34:51.290 --> 00:34:53.010
- SO I WANT THAT TO BE A HOUSING
- 00:34:53.010 --> 00:34:55.270
- PLACE TO BIRTH AND LAUNCH THE
- 00:34:55.270 --> 00:34:58.110
- NEXT GENERATION.
- 00:34:58.110 --> 00:34:59.030
- - THAT IS SO GOOD.
- 00:34:59.030 --> 00:35:00.170
- WELL, YOU'RE HERE WITH US, JOHN
- 00:35:00.170 --> 00:35:03.000
- HANNAH, PASTOR HERE, NEW LIFE
- 00:35:03.060 --> 00:35:06.060
- COVENANT SOUTHEAST AND WE'RE
- 00:35:06.060 --> 00:35:07.070
- TALKING ABOUT BUILDING, BUT ALSO
- 00:35:07.070 --> 00:35:08.250
- HE HAS A SCHOOL CALLED "ARTS IN
- 00:35:08.250 --> 00:35:10.220
- MOTION."
- 00:35:10.220 --> 00:35:11.060
- TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
- 00:35:15.140 --> 00:35:18.140
- [MUSICMUSIC] ART IN MOTION IS A
- 00:35:20.090 --> 00:35:23.090
- REIMAGINED EDUCATION FOR
- 00:35:23.090 --> 00:35:25.080
- STUDENTS.
- 00:35:25.080 --> 00:35:25.190
- OUR OVERARCHING OBJECTIVE IS TO
- 00:35:25.190 --> 00:35:27.160
- PROVIDE EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS
- 00:35:27.160 --> 00:35:29.130
- OF THEIR CODE AND OPPORTUNITY TO
- 00:35:29.130 --> 00:35:31.250
- ACHIEVE THEIR FULLEST ACADEMIC
- 00:35:31.250 --> 00:35:34.190
- POTENTIAL.
- 00:35:34.190 --> 00:35:35.040
- BETWEEN OUR PERSONAL LIVES AND
- 00:35:35.040 --> 00:35:37.110
- OUR SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
- 00:35:37.110 --> 00:35:38.240
- LEARNING AND THE PARALLEL TRACKS
- 00:35:38.240 --> 00:35:40.000
- OF OUR ARTS AND OUR ACADEMICS,
- 00:35:40.080 --> 00:35:43.080
- IT'S REVISIONING EVERYTHING THAT
- 00:35:43.080 --> 00:35:46.020
- SCHOOL HAS BEEN FOR STUDENTS.
- 00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:49.160
- BUILT AROUND THE ARTS
- 00:36:24.140 --> 00:36:27.140
- AND THE SCHOOL IS BUILT AROUND
- 00:36:27.140 --> 00:36:30.100
- THE ARTS.
- 00:36:30.100 --> 00:36:32.170
- THAT'S THE THING THAT CAN PULL
- 00:36:32.170 --> 00:36:34.180
- THEM IN AND A FUTURE.
- 00:36:34.180 --> 00:36:37.150
- - THE SCHOOL IS ENTERING THE
- 00:36:37.150 --> 00:36:39.160
- NINTH YEAR OF CHARTER SCHOOL
- 00:36:39.160 --> 00:36:41.230
- MANAGEMENT.
- 00:36:41.230 --> 00:36:42.050
- WE WILL BE DESIGNING A SCHOOL
- 00:36:42.050 --> 00:36:44.030
- FROM SCRATCH WHICH IS AN AMAZING
- 00:36:44.030 --> 00:36:46.160
- OPPORTUNITY TO DEAL WITH WITHIN
- 00:36:46.160 --> 00:36:47.110
- A COMMUNITY TO HAVE EXCELLENT
- 00:36:47.110 --> 00:36:48.250
- RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHICAGO
- 00:36:48.250 --> 00:36:49.180
- PUBLIC SCHOOL AND OTHER PARTNERS
- 00:36:49.180 --> 00:36:52.140
- ACROSS THE EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM
- 00:36:52.140 --> 00:36:54.010
- HERE IN CHICAGO.
- 00:36:54.010 --> 00:36:55.220
- PARTNERED WITH NEW LIFE AND
- 00:36:55.220 --> 00:36:56.260
- COMMUNITY PARTNERS ACROSS THE
- 00:36:56.260 --> 00:36:58.150
- CITY, WE'RE EXCITED TO BRING OUR
- 00:36:58.150 --> 00:37:01.170
- YEARS OF EXPERIENCE LEADING
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- RIGOROUS ACADEMICS, HIGH SUCCESS
- 00:37:02.240 --> 00:37:04.210
- RATES WITH STUDENTS ATTENDING
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- THE BEST HIGH SCHOOLS AND THE
- 00:37:06.090 --> 00:37:08.130
- BEST COLLEGES ACROSS THE NATION
- 00:37:08.130 --> 00:37:09.140
- AND ALSO BRINGING OUR
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- EXPERIENCES, OUR INNOVATION
- 00:37:11.020 --> 00:37:12.270
- MODEL.
- 00:37:12.270 --> 00:37:13.060
- WE WANT TO DISRUPT EDUCATION
- 00:37:13.060 --> 00:37:14.120
- WITH A 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
- 00:37:14.120 --> 00:37:16.270
- MODEL THAT MIRRORED WITH THE
- 00:37:16.270 --> 00:37:18.040
- ARTS PROVIDES UNSTOPPABLE
- 00:37:18.040 --> 00:37:19.080
- EXPERIENCES FOR OUR STUDENTS.
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- [MUSIC] [Applause]
- 00:37:23.250 --> 00:37:25.230
- - THAT IS AWESOME.
- 00:37:26.170 --> 00:37:29.170
- AMAZING.
- 00:37:29.170 --> 00:37:30.020
- AMAZING OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE AND
- 00:37:30.020 --> 00:37:32.120
- WHERE HE'S BROUGHT YOU AND THE
- 00:37:32.120 --> 00:37:34.240
- THINGS YOU'RE TOUCHING, THE
- 00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:36.000
- DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF PRAYER,
- 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.290
- ARTS, WHICH IS AN ELEMENT IN OUR
- 00:37:37.290 --> 00:37:40.120
- CULTURE WHERE HOLLYWOOD HAS
- 00:37:40.120 --> 00:37:42.210
- DESTROYED.
- 00:37:42.210 --> 00:37:43.030
- AND IN MY OPINION.
- 00:37:43.030 --> 00:37:44.200
- AND I JUST PRAISE THE LORD WHAT
- 00:37:44.200 --> 00:37:47.060
- GOD IS DOING THROUGH SOUTHEAST
- 00:37:47.060 --> 00:37:48.100
- AND THROUGH YOUR LIFE AND YOUR
- 00:37:48.100 --> 00:37:50.240
- TEAM AND JOHN, THERE ARE PEOPLE
- 00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:52.000
- WHO ARE WATCHING.
- 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.020
- THERE'S A LEADER THAT JUST
- 00:37:53.020 --> 00:37:54.180
- PROBABLY TUNED IN.
- 00:37:54.180 --> 00:37:55.270
- WHAT WOULD BE AN ADVICE OR
- 00:37:55.270 --> 00:37:58.030
- SOMETHING THAT IN YOUR LIFE THAT
- 00:37:58.030 --> 00:38:00.150
- SHAPED YOU, ONE MOMENT THAT YOU
- 00:38:00.150 --> 00:38:02.140
- CAN SAY THIS YEAR IS WHAT KIND
- 00:38:02.140 --> 00:38:04.120
- OF SET THE TRAJECTORY FROM YOUR
- 00:38:04.120 --> 00:38:06.210
- LIFE?
- 00:38:06.210 --> 00:38:07.000
- WHAT WOULD BE THAT ONE THING.
- 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:08.240
- - SO WHEN I LOOK AT MY LIFE,
- 00:38:08.240 --> 00:38:10.230
- I'M FROM CHICAGO, THE WEST SIDE
- 00:38:10.230 --> 00:38:11.270
- OF CHICAGO.
- 00:38:11.270 --> 00:38:12.230
- I'M A PRODUCT OF CHICAGO'S
- 00:38:12.230 --> 00:38:14.180
- HOUSING AUTHORITY.
- 00:38:14.180 --> 00:38:15.170
- I GREW UP IN -- MY FATHER WAS
- 00:38:16.110 --> 00:38:19.110
- NOT PRESENT IN MY LIFE AND I
- 00:38:19.110 --> 00:38:21.220
- WATCH PEOPLE THAT GO THROUGH
- 00:38:23.020 --> 00:38:26.020
- ABANDONMENT ISSUES BECAUSE THEIR
- 00:38:26.020 --> 00:38:28.140
- FAMILY MEMBERS WEREN'T THERE.
- 00:38:28.140 --> 00:38:29.170
- I WAS GOING THROUGH CHANGES OF
- 00:38:29.170 --> 00:38:31.120
- NOT HAVING A FATHER AND THE LORD
- 00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:33.040
- SAYS TO ME, I KEPT HIM FROM YOU.
- 00:38:35.240 --> 00:38:38.240
- BECAUSE HAD HE BEEN IN YOUR
- 00:38:38.240 --> 00:38:40.260
- LIFE, HE WOULD HAVE ATTEMPTED TO
- 00:38:40.260 --> 00:38:42.030
- MAKE YOU WHO HE WAS.
- 00:38:42.030 --> 00:38:44.010
- SO I HAD TO PULL HIM FROM YOU,
- 00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:47.260
- BUT MONITOR WHO I PUT IN YOUR
- 00:38:47.260 --> 00:38:50.160
- LIFE TO MAKE YOU WHO YOU ARE
- 00:38:50.200 --> 00:38:53.200
- TODAY.
- 00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:53.290
- SO WHEN I LOOK AT MY LIFE, I
- 00:38:53.290 --> 00:38:56.140
- LOOK AT THREE MEN.
- 00:38:56.140 --> 00:38:57.230
- THERE WAS A MAN WHEN I FIRST GOT
- 00:38:58.030 --> 00:39:01.050
- SAVED, A CHRISTIAN WHO TAUGHT ME
- 00:39:01.050 --> 00:39:02.270
- THE WORD OF GOD AT 17.
- 00:39:02.270 --> 00:39:04.070
- I STILL HAVE THE BIBLE THAT HE
- 00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:07.160
- GAVE ME.
- 00:39:07.160 --> 00:39:08.140
- THIS MAN TOLD ME HOW TO SEARCH
- 00:39:08.140 --> 00:39:10.240
- THE SCRIPTURES AND HOW TO LOVE
- 00:39:10.240 --> 00:39:12.160
- THE WORD OF GOD.
- 00:39:12.160 --> 00:39:14.060
- HE TAUGHT ME, IF YOU DON'T KNOW
- 00:39:14.060 --> 00:39:15.290
- WORDS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE
- 00:39:15.290 --> 00:39:16.290
- IT.
- 00:39:16.290 --> 00:39:17.070
- IF YOU DON'T KNOW THIS BIBLE,
- 00:39:17.070 --> 00:39:19.050
- FORGET YOUR GIFT.
- 00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:20.120
- YOU NEED WORD.
- 00:39:20.120 --> 00:39:22.210
- HE TAUGHT ME THAT.
- 00:39:22.210 --> 00:39:24.150
- AND SO I DUG THE SCRIPTURES AND
- 00:39:25.250 --> 00:39:28.250
- THEN I REMEMBER WOOLLY JAMES
- 00:39:29.050 --> 00:39:32.050
- CAMPBELL, HE TAUGHT ME POWER.
- 00:39:32.170 --> 00:39:35.170
- HE TAUGHT ME THAT WHATEVER
- 00:39:35.170 --> 00:39:37.040
- YOU'RE GOING TO DO, YOU NEED TO
- 00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:38.100
- EXECUTE IT WITH THE ANOINTING.
- 00:39:38.100 --> 00:39:39.290
- WHATEVER YOU'RE GOING TO DO.
- 00:39:39.290 --> 00:39:41.090
- YOU NEED THE ANOINTING OF GOD.
- 00:39:41.090 --> 00:39:42.270
- HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO WALK INTO A
- 00:39:42.270 --> 00:39:45.070
- ROOM, HOW YOU HAVE TO -- THE
- 00:39:47.080 --> 00:39:50.080
- ANOINTING ARRESTS THE ROOM.
- 00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:51.270
- HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO PREACH UNTIL
- 00:39:51.270 --> 00:39:54.030
- THE POWER OF GOD FILLS THE ROOM.
- 00:39:54.030 --> 00:39:55.250
- HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO PUSH UNTIL
- 00:39:55.250 --> 00:39:57.280
- YOU GET PEOPLE INTO HIS
- 00:39:58.290 --> 00:40:01.290
- PRESENCE.
- 00:40:01.290 --> 00:40:02.100
- BUT THEN YOU, THE LORD TOOK ME
- 00:40:02.100 --> 00:40:04.050
- TO YOU AND SAID, NOW HE WILL
- 00:40:04.050 --> 00:40:06.000
- TEACH YOU STRUCTURE.
- 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.040
- HE WILL TEACH YOU ORGANIZATION.
- 00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:09.150
- HE WILL TEACH YOU BUSINESS.
- 00:40:09.150 --> 00:40:11.180
- HE WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE
- 00:40:11.180 --> 00:40:14.150
- THE HEART TO DO WHAT'S ABOUT TO
- 00:40:14.150 --> 00:40:16.250
- BE DONE.
- 00:40:16.250 --> 00:40:18.000
- SO WHAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO IS
- 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.230
- I HAD TO SHIFT WHEN IT WAS
- 00:40:22.250 --> 00:40:25.250
- NECESSARY, BUT NOT BE ALL OVER
- 00:40:25.250 --> 00:40:27.170
- THE PLACE.
- 00:40:27.170 --> 00:40:28.010
- WE'RE IN A DAY RIGHT NOW THAT
- 00:40:28.010 --> 00:40:30.120
- YOU HAVE TOO MANY OPTIONS.
- 00:40:30.120 --> 00:40:32.110
- - YEAH, YEAH.
- 00:40:32.110 --> 00:40:33.200
- - SO ANY TIME SOMETHING DOESN'T
- 00:40:33.200 --> 00:40:35.010
- WORK OUT, YOU JUST SHIFT
- 00:40:35.010 --> 00:40:36.150
- SOMEWHERE ELSE, SO IMAGINE HAD I
- 00:40:36.150 --> 00:40:38.200
- BECOME OFFENDED WHEN YOU SAID TO
- 00:40:38.200 --> 00:40:40.060
- ME, JOHN, I'M NOT GOING TO PLANT
- 00:40:40.060 --> 00:40:43.030
- YOU.
- 00:40:43.030 --> 00:40:43.110
- I'D BE, LIKE, WHO ARE YOU
- 00:40:43.110 --> 00:40:45.150
- TALKING TO?
- 00:40:45.150 --> 00:40:47.240
- I'LL GO FIND SOMEONE WHO WILL
- 00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:48.160
- SEE MY HEART AND SOMEONE WOULD
- 00:40:48.160 --> 00:40:51.090
- HAVE SAW ME SO OPEN AND WOUNDED
- 00:40:51.090 --> 00:40:52.250
- AND TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF MY
- 00:40:53.060 --> 00:40:56.060
- REBELLION.
- 00:40:56.060 --> 00:40:58.020
- - COME ON.
- 00:40:58.020 --> 00:40:59.190
- - AND BASICALLY LOOKED AT ME
- 00:40:59.190 --> 00:41:01.190
- AND GIVEN ME A WORD TO JUSTIFY
- 00:41:01.190 --> 00:41:04.170
- MY REBELLION.
- 00:41:04.170 --> 00:41:06.250
- SO I LEARNED HOW TO SUBMIT IN
- 00:41:06.250 --> 00:41:09.170
- THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY,
- 00:41:10.100 --> 00:41:13.100
- KNOWING THAT I'M WHERE GOD WANTS
- 00:41:13.100 --> 00:41:16.070
- ME TO BE.
- 00:41:16.070 --> 00:41:17.030
- [Applause]
- 00:41:17.030 --> 00:41:18.260
- - WOW.
- 00:41:18.260 --> 00:41:19.080
- I MEAN, THAT SEEMS SO GOOD, I
- 00:41:19.080 --> 00:41:21.090
- COULD COLLECT AN OFFERING RIGHT
- 00:41:21.090 --> 00:41:22.160
- NOW IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
- 00:41:22.160 --> 00:41:24.160
- - IT'S THE TRUTH MORE MAN.
- 00:41:24.160 --> 00:41:26.070
- - YOU KNOW, ONE OF THINGS I
- 00:41:26.070 --> 00:41:27.210
- THINK AND WE WOULD AGREE THAT
- 00:41:27.210 --> 00:41:29.160
- THE CULTURE WE HAVE TODAY DO NOT
- 00:41:31.220 --> 00:41:34.220
- EXPERIENCE THE MORAL OF GOD
- 00:41:34.220 --> 00:41:37.000
- BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO
- 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:38.000
- UNDERSTAND.
- 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:38.180
- AND I TELL PEOPLE UNDERSTANDING
- 00:41:38.180 --> 00:41:39.290
- CAN WAIT, BUT OBEDIENCE CANNOT.
- 00:41:40.060 --> 00:41:43.060
- WE MUST OBEY.
- 00:41:43.060 --> 00:41:45.120
- IMAGINE, WHY DO I HAVE TO WALK
- 00:41:45.120 --> 00:41:47.140
- AROUND JERICHO SEVEN TIMES?
- 00:41:47.140 --> 00:41:48.140
- JUST DO IT.
- 00:41:48.140 --> 00:41:49.210
- WHY DO I HAVE TO DIP MYSELF
- 00:41:49.210 --> 00:41:52.000
- SEVEN TIMES?
- 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:53.170
- JUST DO IT IF YOU WANT YOUR
- 00:41:53.170 --> 00:41:55.150
- MIRACLE IN YOUR BLOODSTREAM AND
- 00:41:55.150 --> 00:41:57.060
- THE CULTURE THAT'S LIVING TODAY,
- 00:41:57.060 --> 00:41:58.140
- THEY'RE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND
- 00:41:58.140 --> 00:41:59.280
- GOD.
- 00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:00.280
- AND YOU HAVE WALKED IN
- 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:03.140
- OBEDIENCE, JOHN.
- 00:42:03.140 --> 00:42:05.260
- - AND IT WASN'T EASY.
- 00:42:05.260 --> 00:42:07.270
- THE TRUE TEST OF OBEDIENCE IS
- 00:42:07.270 --> 00:42:10.000
- NOT WHEN YOU'RE TOLD TO DO WHAT
- 00:42:10.050 --> 00:42:13.050
- YOU WANT TO DO.
- 00:42:13.050 --> 00:42:14.060
- THE TRUE TEST OF OBEDIENCE IS
- 00:42:14.060 --> 00:42:16.040
- WHEN YOU'RE TOLD TO DO WHAT YOU
- 00:42:16.040 --> 00:42:18.030
- REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO.
- 00:42:18.030 --> 00:42:20.050
- - YEAH, YEAH.
- 00:42:20.050 --> 00:42:21.260
- - AND THIS IS WHY PAUL SAYS I
- 00:42:21.260 --> 00:42:24.010
- DIE DAILY.
- 00:42:24.010 --> 00:42:25.120
- I BEAT MY FLESH UNDER
- 00:42:25.120 --> 00:42:27.030
- SUBJECTION.
- 00:42:27.030 --> 00:42:27.150
- I BEAT MY EGO.
- 00:42:27.150 --> 00:42:29.200
- I BEAT MY PERSONALITY BECAUSE I
- 00:42:29.200 --> 00:42:31.040
- KNOW THAT I'M WHERE I'M SUPPOSED
- 00:42:31.040 --> 00:42:32.240
- TO BE.
- 00:42:32.240 --> 00:42:33.170
- AND SO THAT IS THE PROCESS OF
- 00:42:33.170 --> 00:42:36.060
- GETTING WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU.
- 00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:39.240
- AND I HONOUR SUBMISSION, AND I
- 00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:42.280
- SAY TO EVERYONE, I AM WHO I AM
- 00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:45.070
- BECAUSE I SUBMITTED TO MY
- 00:42:45.180 --> 00:42:48.180
- PROCESS.
- 00:42:48.180 --> 00:42:48.290
- AND WAS THAT PROCESS EASY?
- 00:42:48.290 --> 00:42:51.040
- ABSOLUTELY NOT.
- 00:42:51.040 --> 00:42:51.200
- FOR ME TO GO TO A PUERTO RICAN
- 00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:54.100
- COMMUNITY AND NOT BE AROUND
- 00:42:54.130 --> 00:42:57.130
- BLACK PEOPLE WAS ONE -- THAT WAS
- 00:42:57.130 --> 00:42:59.140
- A TRYING TIME.
- 00:43:04.150 --> 00:43:07.150
- EATING RICE AND BEANS.
- 00:43:07.210 --> 00:43:10.210
- BRO, BRO, EAT!
- 00:43:10.210 --> 00:43:12.190
- I'M, LIKE, WHAT IS THIS?
- 00:43:12.190 --> 00:43:14.040
- BUT I LOVE MY PROCESS.
- 00:43:14.240 --> 00:43:17.240
- I COULDN'T ENJOY MY KINGDOM
- 00:43:17.240 --> 00:43:19.090
- WITHOUT LOOKING AT MY WILDERNES
- 00:43:20.130 --> 00:43:23.130
- WILDERNESS.
- 00:43:23.130 --> 00:43:23.250
- EVERYBODY WANTS THE KINGDOM, BUT
- 00:43:23.250 --> 00:43:25.060
- YOU DON'T WANT THE PROCESS OF
- 00:43:25.060 --> 00:43:26.130
- GETTING THE KINGDOM.
- 00:43:26.130 --> 00:43:28.180
- BEFORE DAVID COULD BECOME KING,
- 00:43:28.180 --> 00:43:30.160
- HE HAD TO BE HATED BY SAUL, RAN
- 00:43:30.160 --> 00:43:32.120
- INTO THE WILDERNESS.
- 00:43:32.120 --> 00:43:33.110
- HE HAD TO RUN AROUND NOT KNOWING
- 00:43:33.110 --> 00:43:35.220
- ANYTHING.
- 00:43:35.220 --> 00:43:36.030
- ALL OF THAT WAS PART OF GETTING
- 00:43:36.030 --> 00:43:37.180
- TO HIS KINGDOM.
- 00:43:37.180 --> 00:43:38.280
- WE JUST WANT TO WAKE UP ONE DAY
- 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:41.080
- AND WE'VE ARRIVED IN OUR
- 00:43:41.080 --> 00:43:42.190
- KINGDOM.
- 00:43:42.190 --> 00:43:43.040
- - THAT'S A GOOD WORD, BECAUSE
- 00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:45.050
- DAVID EVEN AFTER HE GOT
- 00:43:45.050 --> 00:43:47.110
- ANOINTED, HE DIDN'T BECOME KING
- 00:43:47.110 --> 00:43:49.270
- FOR, LIKE, 20 YEARS LATER.
- 00:43:49.270 --> 00:43:52.020
- - JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ANOINTED
- 00:43:52.020 --> 00:43:53.230
- DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE READY.
- 00:43:53.230 --> 00:43:54.240
- - THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:55.230
- - PEOPLE SEE YOUR LIFE, THEY
- 00:43:55.230 --> 00:43:56.270
- SEE YOUR BOOK, THEY SEE THE SHOW
- 00:43:56.270 --> 00:43:59.110
- AND SEE YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND
- 00:43:59.110 --> 00:44:00.240
- THINK YOU JUST SHOWED UP.
- 00:44:00.240 --> 00:44:02.220
- - JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ANOINTED
- 00:44:02.220 --> 00:44:04.070
- DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE READY.
- 00:44:04.070 --> 00:44:06.050
- AND I KNEW, I KNEW THAT GOD HAD
- 00:44:06.060 --> 00:44:09.060
- ANOINT MED, BUT I KNEW THAT GOD
- 00:44:09.060 --> 00:44:11.230
- WASN'T READY.
- 00:44:11.230 --> 00:44:13.030
- I COULD HAVE LEFT MY SECOND
- 00:44:13.030 --> 00:44:14.100
- LOTIOSECONDLOCATION AND COULD HD
- 00:44:16.140 --> 00:44:19.140
- A CHURCH.
- 00:44:19.140 --> 00:44:20.020
- GOD SAID, IF YOU LEAVE NOW,
- 00:44:20.020 --> 00:44:22.160
- YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO REPEAT WHAT
- 00:44:22.160 --> 00:44:24.260
- YOU STARTED.
- 00:44:24.260 --> 00:44:25.290
- IF YOU DON'T KNOW BUSINESS,
- 00:44:25.290 --> 00:44:27.230
- STRUCTURE, AND ORGANIZATION,
- 00:44:27.230 --> 00:44:28.230
- YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT.
- 00:44:28.230 --> 00:44:30.140
- SO I HAD TO SUBMIT TO THAT
- 00:44:30.180 --> 00:44:33.180
- PROCESS AND IT WAS FOUR YEARS!
- 00:44:33.180 --> 00:44:36.100
- FOUR YEARS.
- 00:44:36.100 --> 00:44:38.010
- AND I WAS, LIKE, OKAY.
- 00:44:38.010 --> 00:44:39.150
- WHAT WE DOING?
- 00:44:39.170 --> 00:44:42.170
- BUT HOW DO YOU GET A MIRACLE?
- 00:44:43.190 --> 00:44:46.190
- WHEN MARY TOLD THE WAITERS AT
- 00:44:46.190 --> 00:44:48.290
- THE WEDDING, WHATSOEVER HE
- 00:44:48.290 --> 00:44:51.180
- TELLETH YOU TO DO, YOU DO IT.
- 00:44:51.180 --> 00:44:54.070
- AND I CAME TO YOU ONCE I
- 00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:59.000
- SUBMITTED, WHAT SO EVER YOU
- 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:01.140
- TELLETH ME TO DO, I'M GOING TO
- 00:45:01.140 --> 00:45:02.240
- DO IT, BECAUSE I KNEW THAT YOU
- 00:45:02.240 --> 00:45:05.080
- WEREN'T GOING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
- 00:45:05.080 --> 00:45:06.050
- OF MY GIFT OR MY CALLING.
- 00:45:06.050 --> 00:45:08.000
- YOU CAN'T SUBMIT UNTIL YOU
- 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.200
- TRUST.
- 00:45:10.200 --> 00:45:10.290
- AND YOU SHOULDN'T BE ANY PLACE
- 00:45:10.290 --> 00:45:12.230
- YOU DON'T TRUST.
- 00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:16.080
- - I WANT PEOPLE TO GET AHOLD OF
- 00:45:16.080 --> 00:45:18.000
- THIS PROCESS THING, BECAUSE
- 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:19.250
- PEOPLE LIKE THE PRODUCT, BUT NOT
- 00:45:19.250 --> 00:45:22.210
- THE PROCESS.
- 00:45:22.210 --> 00:45:23.130
- - THEY LIKE THE END PRODUCT,
- 00:45:23.130 --> 00:45:24.250
- BUT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'VE
- 00:45:24.250 --> 00:45:27.070
- BEEN THROUGH.
- 00:45:27.070 --> 00:45:28.200
- BUT GOD.
- 00:45:28.200 --> 00:45:30.030
- - BUT GOD.
- 00:45:30.030 --> 00:45:30.220
- IT'S ALL THE GLORY, WHAT HE'S
- 00:45:30.220 --> 00:45:32.280
- DOING, WHAT HE'S DOING, WHAT
- 00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:34.130
- HE'S DOING, WHAT HE'S DOING, BUT
- 00:45:35.120 --> 00:45:38.120
- GOD.
- 00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:38.220
- [Applause]
- 00:45:38.220 --> 00:45:40.090
- - JOHN, WHAT WOULD BE ONE PIECE
- 00:45:40.090 --> 00:45:41.190
- OF ADVICE FOR A CHURCH PLANTER,
- 00:45:41.190 --> 00:45:44.060
- A LAYPERSON WATCHING RIGHT NOW
- 00:45:44.140 --> 00:45:47.140
- THAT'S CONTEMPLATING A MINISTRY?
- 00:45:47.140 --> 00:45:49.060
- WE'VE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT
- 00:45:49.060 --> 00:45:51.220
- OBEDIENCE, ABOUT SUBMISSION.
- 00:45:51.220 --> 00:45:52.260
- WHAT WOULD BE ADVICE AND
- 00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:54.070
- AFTERWARDS, WHAT I WANT TO DO
- 00:45:54.070 --> 00:45:55.040
- FOR THE LAST FEW MINUTES IS TAKE
- 00:45:55.040 --> 00:45:57.050
- THIS ENTIRE AUDIENCE AND BEGIN
- 00:45:57.050 --> 00:45:59.040
- TO TAP INTO HIS ANOINTING OF
- 00:45:59.040 --> 00:46:01.260
- PRAYER AND CALL HEAVEN ON EARTH
- 00:46:01.260 --> 00:46:03.070
- RIGHT HERE ON THIS SET THAT GOD
- 00:46:03.070 --> 00:46:05.020
- WILL DO NOT ONLY HERE IN THIS
- 00:46:05.020 --> 00:46:07.080
- SET, BUT THOSE WATCHING ACROSS
- 00:46:07.080 --> 00:46:08.260
- THIS WORLD THAT GOD WOULD MOVE
- 00:46:08.260 --> 00:46:11.080
- BUT WHAT WOULD BE ONE ADVICE
- 00:46:11.080 --> 00:46:12.230
- YOU'D GIVE TO A CHURCH PLANTER
- 00:46:12.230 --> 00:46:14.280
- OR LAYPERSON?
- 00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:17.180
- - CONSISTENCY.
- 00:46:17.180 --> 00:46:18.040
- WE'RE GOOD AT STARTING AND THEN
- 00:46:18.110 --> 00:46:21.110
- WE STOP.
- 00:46:21.110 --> 00:46:22.040
- - THAT'S GOOD, JOHN.
- 00:46:22.040 --> 00:46:24.090
- - IF YOU COULD JUST BE
- 00:46:25.240 --> 00:46:28.240
- CONSISTENT.
- 00:46:28.240 --> 00:46:29.060
- SOMETIMES IF YOU STUDY HANNAH,
- 00:46:29.060 --> 00:46:31.240
- THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH
- 00:46:31.240 --> 00:46:34.140
- HANNAH.
- 00:46:34.140 --> 00:46:34.240
- THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH
- 00:46:34.240 --> 00:46:36.170
- HANNAH'S BODY THAT SHE COULD NOT
- 00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:38.100
- HAVE A BABY.
- 00:46:38.100 --> 00:46:39.140
- THE BIBLE SAYS, BUT THE LORD
- 00:46:41.210 --> 00:46:44.210
- CLOSED HER WOMB.
- 00:46:44.210 --> 00:46:45.130
- THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT
- 00:46:45.130 --> 00:46:46.230
- GOD WILL ALLOW TO REMAIN CLOSED
- 00:46:50.180 --> 00:46:53.180
- TO MIRROR YOUR CONSISTENCY.
- 00:46:53.180 --> 00:46:55.210
- - HOPE YOU'RE WRITING THIS
- 00:46:55.210 --> 00:46:57.120
- DOWN.
- 00:46:57.120 --> 00:46:57.210
- THIS IS GOOD STUFF RIGHT HERE.
- 00:46:59.200 --> 00:47:02.220
- - SHE CAME TO THE TEMPLE FOR
- 00:47:02.220 --> 00:47:05.090
- SACRIFICE.
- 00:47:05.090 --> 00:47:05.200
- SHE HAD WARFARE WITH THE OTHER
- 00:47:05.200 --> 00:47:06.280
- WOMEN MOCKING HER, SHE WOULD
- 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:08.230
- COME WEEPING.
- 00:47:08.230 --> 00:47:10.140
- SHE WOULD COME WAILING, BUT SHE
- 00:47:10.140 --> 00:47:12.210
- KEPT COMING, JUST KEPT COMING.
- 00:47:14.140 --> 00:47:17.140
- CONSISTENCY.
- 00:47:17.140 --> 00:47:17.260
- AND FINALLY, WHILE SHE'S ON THE
- 00:47:17.260 --> 00:47:20.260
- ALTAR WITHOUT ANY WORDS COMING
- 00:47:20.260 --> 00:47:22.200
- OUT OF HER MOUTH, ONLY HER LIPS
- 00:47:22.200 --> 00:47:25.140
- MOVING, ELI SAYS, WHY DO YOU
- 00:47:25.140 --> 00:47:27.140
- COME HERE DRUNK?
- 00:47:27.140 --> 00:47:29.010
- EVEN SOME OF THOSE THAT ARE
- 00:47:29.010 --> 00:47:32.010
- SPIRITUAL DON'T UNDERSTAND YOUR
- 00:47:32.010 --> 00:47:34.280
- CONSISTENCY.
- 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:35.240
- AND SHE SAID, AND THEN SHE
- 00:47:35.240 --> 00:47:37.160
- EXPLAINED HERSELF, AND THE
- 00:47:37.160 --> 00:47:39.030
- PROPHET SAID TO HER, GET UP.
- 00:47:39.030 --> 00:47:41.170
- IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
- 00:47:41.170 --> 00:47:43.210
- BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN UNTIL SHE
- 00:47:43.290 --> 00:47:46.290
- SUBMITTED WHAT SHE WANTED TO
- 00:47:46.290 --> 00:47:49.140
- GOD.
- 00:47:49.140 --> 00:47:49.230
- EVEN IF YOU GIVE IT TO ME, I'LL
- 00:47:49.230 --> 00:47:51.090
- GIVE IT BACK TO YOU.
- 00:47:51.090 --> 00:47:54.020
- [Applause]
- 00:47:54.020 --> 00:47:54.170
- - THAT'S GOOD STUFF RIGHT
- 00:47:54.170 --> 00:47:55.220
- THERE.
- 00:47:55.220 --> 00:47:56.010
- THAT'S GOOD STUFF.
- 00:47:56.010 --> 00:47:58.070
- - AND SO I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
- 00:47:58.070 --> 00:48:00.070
- THOSE TO BE CONSISTENT TO YOUR
- 00:48:00.210 --> 00:48:03.210
- CHURCH.
- 00:48:03.210 --> 00:48:04.010
- TO BE CONSISTENT TO YOUR
- 00:48:04.120 --> 00:48:07.120
- ASSIGNMENT.
- 00:48:07.120 --> 00:48:07.240
- TO BE CONSISTENT TO YOUR
- 00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:10.220
- MINISTRY.
- 00:48:10.220 --> 00:48:11.030
- TO BE CONSISTENT WITH YOUR
- 00:48:11.030 --> 00:48:13.290
- VISION.
- 00:48:13.290 --> 00:48:14.090
- DON'T START LOOKING AT WHAT
- 00:48:14.090 --> 00:48:15.100
- OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING AND NOW
- 00:48:15.100 --> 00:48:17.200
- YOU ALTER YOUR VISION.
- 00:48:17.260 --> 00:48:20.260
- DON'T TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE.
- 00:48:20.260 --> 00:48:23.090
- TELL ME WHAT YOU SAW.
- 00:48:23.090 --> 00:48:25.170
- TELL ME WHAT HE SHOWS YOU BEFORE
- 00:48:25.170 --> 00:48:28.070
- YOU GOT HERE.
- 00:48:28.070 --> 00:48:30.180
- AND THEN I'VE LEARNED
- 00:48:30.180 --> 00:48:33.030
- CONSISTENCY HAS BEEN ABLE TO BE
- 00:48:33.030 --> 00:48:33.260
- THE KEY OF REAPING THE BLESSING,
- 00:48:33.260 --> 00:48:36.030
- BECAUSE YOU DON'T GET IT UP
- 00:48:36.030 --> 00:48:37.250
- FRONT.
- 00:48:37.250 --> 00:48:38.100
- HANNAH DIDN'T GET PREGNANT AFTER
- 00:48:38.100 --> 00:48:40.220
- ONE PRAYER.
- 00:48:40.220 --> 00:48:41.110
- - THAT'S GOOD.
- 00:48:41.110 --> 00:48:42.080
- - SHE DIDN'T.
- 00:48:42.080 --> 00:48:43.180
- IT TOOK YEARS OF CONSTANTLY
- 00:48:44.020 --> 00:48:47.020
- COMING, YEARS OF DEALING WITH
- 00:48:47.020 --> 00:48:48.050
- THE REJECTION, YEARS OF HAVING
- 00:48:48.050 --> 00:48:49.240
- TO WATCH OTHER PEOPLE HAVE
- 00:48:51.210 --> 00:48:54.210
- BABIES.
- 00:48:54.210 --> 00:48:55.010
- HOW CAN EVERYBODY ELSE HAVE WHAT
- 00:48:55.030 --> 00:48:58.030
- YOU WANT AND THEY HAVE IT
- 00:48:58.070 --> 00:49:01.090
- WITHOUT PRAYING?
- 00:49:01.090 --> 00:49:01.240
- AND IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, IT'LL
- 00:49:01.240 --> 00:49:04.020
- STOP YOU FROM PRAYING.
- 00:49:04.020 --> 00:49:05.080
- - THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:49:05.080 --> 00:49:06.260
- - SO I'VE LEARNED CONSISTENCY,
- 00:49:06.260 --> 00:49:08.150
- TO STAY ON THE ALTAR, STAY IN
- 00:49:08.150 --> 00:49:10.020
- THE FACE OF GOD, KEEP DOING IT.
- 00:49:10.020 --> 00:49:12.110
- FOR ME TO BE PRAYING NOW FOR 11
- 00:49:12.110 --> 00:49:14.000
- YEARS AT 4 a.m. IN THE
- 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:16.010
- MORNING, THAT'S CONSISTENCY.
- 00:49:16.010 --> 00:49:17.280
- WE DO 12-HOUR PRAYER MEETINGS
- 00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:19.140
- ONCE A YEAR.
- 00:49:19.140 --> 00:49:20.200
- NOW WE'RE FLYING IN PEOPLE FROM
- 00:49:20.200 --> 00:49:22.010
- AROUND THE WORLD TO PRAY.
- 00:49:22.010 --> 00:49:23.040
- WE DO A 12-HOUR PRAYER MEETING
- 00:49:23.040 --> 00:49:25.140
- AND THEY SAY, BRING IT OUT OF
- 00:49:25.140 --> 00:49:27.090
- YOUR CHURCH, TAKE IT TO A
- 00:49:27.090 --> 00:49:28.270
- CONVENTION CENTER.
- 00:49:28.270 --> 00:49:29.130
- I SAID, WHO RENTS A CONVENTION
- 00:49:30.240 --> 00:49:33.240
- CENTER FOR PRAYER?
- 00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:34.200
- THE LORD SAYS, I DO.
- 00:49:34.200 --> 00:49:36.180
- I BUDGET FOR A PRAYER MEETING
- 00:49:36.180 --> 00:49:38.180
- FOR OVER $100.000.
- 00:49:38.180 --> 00:49:39.210
- WHATEVER I TELL YOU TO DO, I'LL
- 00:49:39.210 --> 00:49:41.020
- PAY FOR IT.
- 00:49:41.020 --> 00:49:42.190
- AND HE DID IT!
- 00:49:42.190 --> 00:49:43.260
- AND SO I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE
- 00:49:43.260 --> 00:49:46.060
- PEOPLE, BE NOT WEARY IN WHILE
- 00:49:49.140 --> 00:49:52.140
- DOING.
- 00:49:52.140 --> 00:49:52.230
- IN DUE SEASON, BUT NOBODY KNOWS
- 00:49:52.230 --> 00:49:54.140
- YOUR DUE DATE.
- 00:49:54.140 --> 00:49:55.160
- - THAT'S A GOOD WORD.
- 00:49:55.160 --> 00:49:56.280
- THAT'S A GOOD WORD.
- 00:49:58.160 --> 00:50:01.160
- [Applause]
- 00:50:01.160 --> 00:50:02.140
- - ALL RIGHT.
- 00:50:02.140 --> 00:50:03.130
- I NEVER KNEW THAT QUITTING WAS
- 00:50:03.130 --> 00:50:05.150
- AN OPTION.
- 00:50:05.150 --> 00:50:06.110
- I NEVER KNEW.
- 00:50:06.110 --> 00:50:08.020
- I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT MINISTRY,
- 00:50:08.020 --> 00:50:09.280
- WHETHER YOUTH MINISTRY, WHETHER
- 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:11.080
- IT BE PART OF USHER MINISTRY, I
- 00:50:11.140 --> 00:50:14.140
- NEVER KNEW THAT PEOPLE TODAY ARE
- 00:50:14.140 --> 00:50:17.100
- TRYING TO SEE THE GRASS IS
- 00:50:17.100 --> 00:50:18.210
- GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE.
- 00:50:18.210 --> 00:50:19.210
- - THEY HAVE OPTIONS.
- 00:50:19.210 --> 00:50:21.090
- - BUT I TELL PEOPLE, JOHN, THE
- 00:50:21.090 --> 00:50:23.040
- GRASS IS GREENER WHERE YOU WATER
- 00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:25.080
- IT.
- 00:50:25.080 --> 00:50:25.160
- YOU DON'T NEED TO LOOK ON THE
- 00:50:25.160 --> 00:50:26.250
- OTHER SIDE.
- 00:50:26.250 --> 00:50:27.080
- I'M WITH YOU.
- 00:50:27.080 --> 00:50:28.230
- STOP JUMPING CHURCHES.
- 00:50:28.230 --> 00:50:30.280
- STOP MAKING GOD LOOK CRAZY THAT
- 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:33.180
- GOD SAID THE LORD TOLD YOU.
- 00:50:33.180 --> 00:50:35.160
- I MEAN, COME ON, NOW, JUST STAY
- 00:50:35.160 --> 00:50:37.280
- PUT.
- 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:38.070
- BE ROOTED.
- 00:50:38.070 --> 00:50:39.050
- THE ONLY WAY YOU'LL HAVE FRUIT
- 00:50:39.050 --> 00:50:40.190
- IS IF THERE'S ROOTS.
- 00:50:40.190 --> 00:50:43.190
- MAN, I COULD RAP THAT THING,
- 00:50:43.190 --> 00:50:46.180
- BRO, IF I HAD SOME MUSIC.
- 00:50:47.180 --> 00:50:50.180
- - ONE OF THE THINGS I LOOK AT,
- 00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:53.240
- CHOCO, YOU REMAIN BLESSED AS
- 00:50:53.240 --> 00:50:54.250
- LONG AS YOU STAY CONNECTED TO
- 00:50:54.250 --> 00:50:56.240
- ABRAHAM.
- 00:50:56.240 --> 00:50:57.040
- THE MOMENT THAT HE UNPLUGGED
- 00:50:57.190 --> 00:51:00.210
- HIMSELF AND AT FIRST HE PITCHED
- 00:51:00.210 --> 00:51:02.190
- HIS TENT WHICH MEANS HE WAS ONLY
- 00:51:02.190 --> 00:51:04.240
- LOOKING, AND THEN HE MOVED
- 00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:06.150
- OUTSIDE THE CITY AND THEN WE
- 00:51:06.150 --> 00:51:08.140
- FOUND OUT HE MOVED INTO THE CITY
- 00:51:10.030 --> 00:51:13.030
- OF SOD DOM AND GOMORRAH.
- 00:51:14.130 --> 00:51:17.130
- STOP LOOKING WHERE YOU SHOULDN'T
- 00:51:17.130 --> 00:51:18.170
- BE AND SUBMIT TO WHERE YOU'RE
- 00:51:18.170 --> 00:51:20.070
- SUPPOSED TO BE.
- 00:51:20.070 --> 00:51:21.170
- - YOU'RE HERE WITH ME WITH
- 00:51:21.170 --> 00:51:22.250
- PASTOR JOHN HANNAH FROM NEW LIFE
- 00:51:23.090 --> 00:51:26.090
- COVENANT SOUTHEAST "DESPERATE
- 00:51:26.090 --> 00:51:28.010
- FOR JESUS."
- 00:51:28.010 --> 00:51:28.280
- I WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO LOOK UP
- 00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:31.110
- HIS BOOK, HIS CHURCH.
- 00:51:31.110 --> 00:51:32.290
- AN AMAZING THING, 30.000 CALL
- 00:51:32.290 --> 00:51:35.170
- THEMSELVES NEW LIFE COVENANT
- 00:51:35.170 --> 00:51:37.000
- SOUTHEAST AND WE CELEBRATE MY
- 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:38.070
- BROTHER.
- 00:51:38.070 --> 00:51:38.180
- WE CELEBRATE THE ANOINTING UPON
- 00:51:38.180 --> 00:51:40.070
- HIS LIFE AND WE WANT YOU RIGHT
- 00:51:40.070 --> 00:51:42.160
- NOW IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS RIGHT
- 00:51:42.160 --> 00:51:44.030
- HERE IN THIS STUDIO, WE'RE GOING
- 00:51:44.030 --> 00:51:45.240
- TO BREAK INTO A TIME OF PRAYER
- 00:51:45.240 --> 00:51:47.260
- BECAUSE THAT'S A CALLING THAT'S
- 00:51:47.260 --> 00:51:49.060
- UPON HIS LIFE AND WE BELIEVE
- 00:51:49.060 --> 00:51:50.230
- EVEN HERE AND THOSE THAT ARE
- 00:51:50.230 --> 00:51:51.240
- WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD,
- 00:51:51.240 --> 00:51:54.000
- HEALING CAN TAKE PLACE.
- 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:55.170
- CHANGE CAN BE BROKEN.
- 00:51:55.170 --> 00:51:56.100
- COME ON.
- 00:51:56.100 --> 00:51:57.150
- I HOPE YOU WOULD AGREE WITH ME
- 00:51:57.150 --> 00:51:59.260
- ON THIS.
- 00:51:59.260 --> 00:52:00.270
- CHANGE CAN BE BROKEN AS WE GET
- 00:52:00.270 --> 00:52:02.120
- INTO THIS MOMENT OF PRAYER WHICH
- 00:52:02.120 --> 00:52:03.170
- IS SOMETHING THAT WE BOTH AGREE
- 00:52:03.170 --> 00:52:05.070
- THAT THE CHURCH IS IN NEED OF.
- 00:52:07.160 --> 00:52:10.160
- SEEK ME.
- 00:52:10.160 --> 00:52:11.190
- AND YOU'LL FIND ME.
- 00:52:11.190 --> 00:52:12.150
- BUT IF YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR
- 00:52:12.150 --> 00:52:15.020
- HEART AND SO I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
- 00:52:15.020 --> 00:52:16.160
- YOU THOSE AT HOME RIGHT NOW,
- 00:52:16.160 --> 00:52:17.240
- WHEREVER YOU'RE AT, JUST TO
- 00:52:17.240 --> 00:52:18.270
- STAND UP IN YOUR LIVING ROOM,
- 00:52:18.270 --> 00:52:21.080
- YOUR KITCHEN, AND BEGIN TO
- 00:52:21.080 --> 00:52:22.270
- PRAYER.
- 00:52:22.270 --> 00:52:23.070
- PASTOR JOHN HANNAH WILL LEAD US
- 00:52:23.070 --> 00:52:25.040
- IN THE WORD OF PRAYER FOR THE
- 00:52:25.040 --> 00:52:26.150
- NEXT FOUR MINUTES, AND HERE IN
- 00:52:26.150 --> 00:52:27.250
- THE AUDIENCE, WOULD YOU JUST
- 00:52:27.250 --> 00:52:29.270
- STAND AS WE GO INTO A TIME.
- 00:52:29.270 --> 00:52:32.150
- I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR GREATEST
- 00:52:32.150 --> 00:52:34.000
- NEED IS.
- 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:34.140
- I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE FACING
- 00:52:34.140 --> 00:52:35.110
- RIGHT NOW.
- 00:52:35.110 --> 00:52:36.070
- BUT WE'RE GOING TO CUT LOOSE OUR
- 00:52:36.070 --> 00:52:38.070
- PASTOR, PASTOR JOHN HANNAH, AND
- 00:52:38.070 --> 00:52:40.050
- WE BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN BRING
- 00:52:40.050 --> 00:52:41.130
- HEALING TO YOU.
- 00:52:41.130 --> 00:52:42.240
- GOD CAN BRING ANSWERS TO YOU.
- 00:52:42.240 --> 00:52:44.080
- COME ON, CHURCH, WOULD YOU JUST
- 00:52:44.080 --> 00:52:46.280
- BEGIN TO PRAYER RIGHT NOW AS WE
- 00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:48.270
- LET OUR BROTHER LEAD NEW US IN S
- 00:52:49.180 --> 00:52:52.180
- TIME OF PRAYER?
- 00:52:52.180 --> 00:52:53.140
- - IF ANYTHING, I WOULD ASK OF
- 00:52:53.140 --> 00:52:54.250
- THOSE OF YOU IN THE STUDIO IS TO
- 00:52:54.250 --> 00:52:57.180
- BE SPECIFIC.
- 00:52:57.180 --> 00:52:58.110
- WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM HIM?
- 00:52:58.140 --> 00:53:01.160
- BECAUSE THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE
- 00:53:01.160 --> 00:53:03.240
- WATCHING ON TELEVISION, WHAT DO
- 00:53:03.240 --> 00:53:06.040
- YOU WANT FROM HIM?
- 00:53:06.040 --> 00:53:08.010
- AND THE BIBLE SAYS, BUT YOU HAVE
- 00:53:08.060 --> 00:53:11.060
- NOT, BECAUSE YOU ACT NOT.
- 00:53:11.060 --> 00:53:13.120
- HERE ME CLEARLY.
- 00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:14.040
- HE WANTS TO HEAR YOU ASK HIM FOR
- 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:18.000
- IT.
- 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:18.080
- HE WANTS YOU TO COME TO THE
- 00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:21.280
- VEIL.
- 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:22.260
- THE VEIL HAS BEEN LIFT SO YOU
- 00:53:22.260 --> 00:53:24.150
- CAN HAVE ACCESS AND THE BIBLE
- 00:53:27.050 --> 00:53:30.050
- SAYS, WHAT LITERALLY DO YOU WANT
- 00:53:30.050 --> 00:53:31.230
- FROM GOD?
- 00:53:31.230 --> 00:53:32.150
- IF I WERE TO GIVE YOU MY PRAYER
- 00:53:32.150 --> 00:53:34.260
- REQUEST, I WOULD SAY, PRAY FOR
- 00:53:34.260 --> 00:53:37.050
- US FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE
- 00:53:37.050 --> 00:53:38.290
- BUILDING OF NEW CHURCH.
- 00:53:38.290 --> 00:53:40.070
- PRAY THAT GOD GIVES US EASY
- 00:53:40.070 --> 00:53:42.010
- ACCESS AND THAT ALL RED TAPE.
- 00:53:43.160 --> 00:53:46.160
- BLESS US WITH ADORATION.
- 00:53:46.160 --> 00:53:49.110
- EVERYONE JUST BEGIN TO SPEAK
- 00:53:49.110 --> 00:53:50.130
- WELL OF YOUR GOD.
- 00:53:50.130 --> 00:53:52.070
- WE HONOUR YOU, MAGNIFY YOU, YOU
- 00:53:52.070 --> 00:53:54.170
- ARE GREAT, YOU ARE WONDERFUL.
- 00:53:54.170 --> 00:53:55.240
- AND THERE IS NOBODY LIKE YOU.
- 00:53:55.240 --> 00:53:57.210
- YOU ARE THE GREAT GOD.
- 00:53:57.210 --> 00:53:58.290
- YOU ARE THE MIGHTY GOD.
- 00:53:59.100 --> 00:54:02.120
- YOU ARE THE GOD THAT NEVER
- 00:54:02.120 --> 00:54:03.240
- SLEEPS.
- 00:54:03.240 --> 00:54:04.040
- YOU'RE THE GOD THAT NEVER
- 00:54:04.040 --> 00:54:06.110
- SLUMBERS.
- 00:54:06.110 --> 00:54:06.260
- YOU'RE THE GOD THAT NEVER TAKES
- 00:54:06.260 --> 00:54:08.280
- A BREAK.
- 00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:10.000
- YOU'RE AN ALL-AWARE GOD, YOU'RE
- 00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:12.030
- ALERT AND AWARE AND THE EARTH IS
- 00:54:12.030 --> 00:54:13.240
- THE LORD AND THE EARTH IS THE
- 00:54:13.240 --> 00:54:16.140
- LORD.
- 00:54:16.140 --> 00:54:16.230
- YOU ARE SOVEREIGN.
- 00:54:16.230 --> 00:54:17.150
- YOU REIGN ON THE THRONE.
- 00:54:17.150 --> 00:54:19.020
- YOU SIT ON THE THRONE AND WE
- 00:54:19.020 --> 00:54:20.130
- GIVE YOU GLORY.
- 00:54:20.130 --> 00:54:22.000
- OH, WE OPEN OUR MOUTHS BECAUSE
- 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:23.160
- WE GIVE YOU GLORY.
- 00:54:23.160 --> 00:54:25.140
- WE GIVE YOU HONOUR.
- 00:54:25.140 --> 00:54:26.250
- WE GIVE YOU GRACE.
- 00:54:26.250 --> 00:54:29.140
- BECAUSE YOU ARE OUR GOD.
- 00:54:29.140 --> 00:54:30.120
- YOU ARE A GOOD SHEPHERD.
- 00:54:30.120 --> 00:54:32.010
- YOU ARE A WONDERFUL SHEPHERD.
- 00:54:32.010 --> 00:54:33.190
- YOU'RE THE GOD THAT GO BEFORE
- 00:54:33.190 --> 00:54:35.220
- US.
- 00:54:35.220 --> 00:54:36.000
- YOU'RE THE GOD THAT MAKES THE
- 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:37.060
- WAY CLEAR AND STRAIGHT.
- 00:54:37.060 --> 00:54:38.200
- YOU'RE THE GOD THAT FIGHTS FOR
- 00:54:38.200 --> 00:54:40.120
- US.
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- YOU'RE THE ONE THAT GIVES US
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- VICTORY.
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- AND WE OPEN OUR MOUTHS AND WE
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- GIVE YOU GLORY.
- 00:54:45.060 --> 00:54:46.130
- AND WE OPEN OUR MOUTHS AND WE
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- GIVE YOU GLORY.
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- YOU ARE ALWAYS ON TIME.
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- YOU ARE THE GOD THAT KNOW US BY
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- NAME.
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- YOU ARE THE GOD THAT IS INTO US.
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- YOU ARE THE GOD THAT IS AWARE OF
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- US.
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- YOU KNOW EACH OF US BY NAME.
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- YOU KNOW THE NUMBERS OF HAIRS ON
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- OUR HEAD AND WE OPEN OUR MOUTHS
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- AND WE GIVE YOU GLORY.
- 00:55:05.070 --> 00:55:06.250
- AND WE OPEN OUR MOUTHS AND WE
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- GIVE YOU GLORY.
- 00:55:08.240 --> 00:55:09.280
- NOW GOD, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
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- WE STAND SO WE GIVE YOU OUR
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- PRAYER REQUESTS.
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- WE GIVE YOU OUR DESIRES.
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- WE GIVE YOU EVERYTHING THAT WE
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- ASK FOR.
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- WE ASK GOD THAT YOU WOULD LEAD
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- US TO WHERE WE ARE.
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- WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD LEAD US TO
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- WHERE WE ARE.
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- WE ASK GOD THAT YOU WOULD HEAR
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- THE PRAYERS THAT ARE BEING
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- REQUESTED IN THIS BUILDING.
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- WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD SEE THE
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- TEARS THAT HAVE BEEN SHED.
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- WE PRAY GOD THAT YOU WILL SPEAK
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- TO US THE SAME WAY THAT YOU
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- SPOKE TO HEZIKIAH, I HAVE HEARD
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- YOUR PRAYER.
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- YOU SAID, I HAVE SEEN YOUR TEARS
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- AND AS A RESULT OF YOU HEARING
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- OUR PRAYERS AND AS A RESULT OF
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- YOU SEEING OUR TEARS, YOU ARE
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- GIVING US EXACTLY, EXACTLY,
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- EXACTLY, EXACTLY, EXACTLY,
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- EXACTLY WHAT WE REQUEST.
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- ALLELUIA!
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- SO NOW WE PRAISE YOU IN ADVANCE.
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- WE GIVE YOU GLORY.
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- WE GIVE YOU GLORY.
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- WE GIVE YOU GLORY THAT THE
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- HEAVEN IS BEING OPENED.
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- WE GIVE YOU GLORY THAT YOU
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- FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED.
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- WE GIVE YOU GLORY.
- 00:56:23.230 --> 00:56:26.230
- WE GIVE YOU GLORY THAT OUR
- 00:56:26.230 --> 00:56:28.080
- FAMILY IS BEING SAVED.
- 00:56:28.080 --> 00:56:30.030
- WE GIVE YOU GLORY THAT OUR
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- MINISTRIES ARE BEING MET.
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- COME ON, WE OPEN OUR MOUTHS AND
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- WE RELEASE AND WE RELEASE THE
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- PRAISE, BECAUSE YOU ARE GOD.
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- EVEN THOSE WATCHING ON
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- TELEVISION, WE PRAY GOD THAT
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- WHEREVER THEY ARE THAT THEIR
- 00:56:48.060 --> 00:56:49.210
- BODY BE HEALED, THAT THEIR
- 00:56:49.210 --> 00:56:51.220
- MINISTRIES BE MET, WHATEVER THE
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- REQUEST IS, WE GIVE YOU GLORY.
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- EVERYBODY IN THE BUILDING, LIFT
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- YOUR HANDS AND OPEN YOUR MOUTHS
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- AND BEGIN TO PRAY.
- 00:57:00.140 --> 00:57:03.030
- - THANK YOU FOR WATCHING, ALLEY
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- LIEU YA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA.
- 00:57:09.090 --> 00:57:12.090
- - AND WE THANK YOU FOR GIVING
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- US THE OPPORTUNITY TO RELEASE.
- 00:57:13.100 --> 00:57:16.090
- - THANK YOU RIGHT NOW, GOD
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- BLESS YOU, THANK YOU FOR TUNING
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- IN FOR TVN.
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- GOD BLESS YOU.
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- IN THE NAME OF JESUS, ALLELUIA.
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- ALLELUIA.
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