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Praise | Rich Wilkerson Jr. at the Zoe Conference | July 8, 2019

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July 8, 2019

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Chad Veach hosts Rich Wilkerson Jr. at the Zoe Conference in Los Angeles, CA – Incubation Through Isolation

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Praise | Rich Wilkerson Jr. at the Zoe Conference | July 8, 2019

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- [Announcer] Tonight.
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- I'm telling some of you out here,
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you're going, "wow, all I face is rejection,
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after rejection,
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after rejection."
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"Nobody sees me."
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"Nobody knows about me."
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"Nobody cares about me."
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I'm telling you that God is developing something in you
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it's called Incubation through Isolation.
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God is teaching you something right now
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in this season of isolation.
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But if you don't ever get into the prison cell,
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if you don't ever go into the incubator,
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if you don't ever walk through some moments of isolation,
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you don't have a story to tell.
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- [Announcer] An all new Praise starts right now.
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(upbeat music)
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Tonight on Praise from Los Angeles, the ZOE Conference.
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Featuring pastor, husband, and miraculous father,
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Rich Wilkerson Jr.
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And now, Chad Veach.
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- Hey, what's going on everybody?
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This is Chad here.
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I'm in the lobby at The Wiltern.
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The buzz is crazy.
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People are excited.
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I'm excited.
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It's about to go down.
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Let's go inside.
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Come on, man.
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It's time for church!
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Let's make it happen already.
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I believe it so I speak it.
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ZOE Conference.
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Let's go.
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I'm breathing in a different rhythm
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I'm walking at a different pace
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I'm freely falling into your hand
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Come on.
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I'm running wild in Your grace
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Now I finally caught air
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I'm breathing
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Your life inside of mine
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I finally caught air
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I feel it
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You've got my best this time
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Finally I feel it
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Your Spirit
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Each breath is Yours not mine
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I finally caught air
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I finally caught air
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Oxygen replacing bondage
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Freedom taking place of fear
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In and out I found my purpose
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We sing!
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My life is different 'cause You're here
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I finally caught air
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I'm breathing
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Your life inside of mine
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I finally caught air
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I feel it
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You've got my best this time
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Finally I feel it
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Your Spirit
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Each breath is Yours not mine
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I finally caught air
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I finally caught air
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Now I finally caught air
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I finally caught air
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Yeah, I finally caught air
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I finally caught air
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I finally found where I'm supposed to be
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Wind at my back
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You're in front of me
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I'm leaving behind all I used to be
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I'm stepping in what only You can see
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Come on, in faith we sing!
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I finally found where I'm supposed to be
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The wind at my back
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You're in front of me
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I'm leaving behind all I used to be
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I'm stepping in what only You can see
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Now I finally caught air
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I'm breathing
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Your life inside of mine
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I finally caught air
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I feel it
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You've got my best this time
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Finally I feel it
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Your Spirit
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Each breath is Yours, not mine
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I finally caught air
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I finally caught air
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Now I finally caught air
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I'm breathing
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Your life inside of mine
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I finally caught air
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I feel it
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You've got my best this time
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Finally I feel it
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Your Spirit
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Each breath is Yours, not mine
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I finally caught air
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I finally caught air
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Yeah, I finally caught air
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I finally caught air
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Yeah, I finally caught air
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We sing: I finally caught air
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(crowd cheering)
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Come on, help us sing this out if you know it.
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We sing.
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You've been so close
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Despite my distance
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Distance
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Oh yeah
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You're always good
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You're always present
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Present
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When my faith is fading
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Your love will still embrace me
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I know that I can make it
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I can make it
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When my faith is fading
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Your love will still embrace me
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I know that I can make it
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I can make it
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You're with me when I walk through fire
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Even when I face the giants
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In the darkness with the lions
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Tell the devil that he's a liar
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And even when I'm in the waiting
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In all of my broken places
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Give me faith where I am faithless
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And I will not be afraid
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Oh, I'll be okay
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I'll be okay
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I'll be okay
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I'll be okay
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And even when I wander
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Your eyes are on me
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On me
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And You're never far
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I wanna feel Your heartbeat
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Heartbeat
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When my faith is fading
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Your love will still embrace me
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I know that I can make it
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I can make it
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When my faith is fading
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Your love will still embrace me
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I know that I can make it
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Come on help us sing this out!
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I can make it
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You're with me when I walk through fire
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Even when I face the giants
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In the darkness with the lions
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Tell the devil that he's a liar
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And even when I'm in the waiting
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In all of my broken places
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Give me faith where I am faithless
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And I will not be afraid
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I'll be okay
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I'll be okay
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I'll be okay
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I'll be okay
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'Cause You're with me when I walk through fire
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Even when I face the giants
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In the darkness with the lions
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Tell the devil that he's a liar
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And even when I'm in the waiting
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In all of my broken places
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Give me faith where I am faithless
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And I will not be afraid
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I'll be okay
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Come on. (crowd cheering)
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I'll be okay
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- Hey what's going on everybody?
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Thanks so much for joining us here at ZOE Conference.
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We are here in Los Angeles, California
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at the iconic Wiltern Theater.
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And I'm joined by one of the greatest preachers
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in the whole wide world.
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One of my best friends in the whole wide world.
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Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. - Come on, man.
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is here, man.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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- Thanks for having me.
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I'm having the best time.
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- Well, Rich, you're no stranger to TBN
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and obviously to ZOE Conference,
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tell us about the message
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that you've got this year for conference.
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- Yeah, I'm so excited.
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I think every time we come together
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we're always really kinda preparing ourselves
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and getting ready for really God to do incredible things.
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I don't think it's mistake or an accident that we gather.
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So when we do gather, we come in with purpose and focus.
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I'm really feeling led, earlier in the year,
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I preached out of Joseph's life to our whole church
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kind of titling the whole thing A God Dream.
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- Yeah.
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- But as you study Joseph's life,
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he goes through test after test,
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after test,
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after test,
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before he sees this dream
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really fulfilled and occur in his life.
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So today, I wanna focus on one of those tests.
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Really out of Genesis chapter 40,
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when Joseph finds himself in the prison.
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In there he's interpreting other prisoner's dreams.
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Calling the message Incubation through Isolation.
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- [Chad] I love that.
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- 'Cause I think so often,
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the test that we go through with God,
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sometimes we have to go through these moments
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where we feel like we're alone.
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Not forever.
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- [Chad] Yeah.
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- It's season.
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I'm really gonna liken it to the fact
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that we had our first son - [Chad] Yeah.
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which has been a big miracle for us.
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We've always dreamed of having a child.
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It was so funny 'cause after eight years
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of wanting to get pregnant, we got pregnant.
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But then as soon as we got pregnant,
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there was this nine-month journey.
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- [Chad] Wow.
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- [Rich] And as much as I wanted to meet my child,
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I didn't want him to come one day early.
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- Yeah.
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- Because if he came early, he risk being born premature.
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And if he's born premature, it could be challenges,
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I mean, ultimately, it could lead to death.
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I think many times, this generation,
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we suffer with this desire for dreams to occur.
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But if we're not careful,
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our dreams will come out premature and they die
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before they even really get a great shot of starting.
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So today I wanna focus and encourage people
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on walking those test of isolation.
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- I love that.
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- And how God is gonna use that really to develop the dream.
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- I love that.
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I've heard you talk out of the life of Joseph
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and teach out of it.
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It's one of the greatest messages
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that you bring to the table.
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And I love that idea of isolation.
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There's something about,
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I heard someone say years ago,
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"Loneliness will make you lethal."
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You know, if you use loneliness to your advantage,
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and allow God to prepare you, then at the right time,
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you know we've been talking about for years,
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"sometimes you're an echo before you're a megaphone."
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You gotta have that isolation season.
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- [Rich] Yep.
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- We so admire and respect your wife's journey,
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and your journey, and trying to get pregnant, now here.
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Come on, tell everybody your son's name is the W-W-W.
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- My boy's name is Wyatt Wesley Wilkerson.
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- [Chad] I love it so much.
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- And Wyatt means brave.
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And so I call him my brave boy.
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Wesley, John Wesley was really the leader and the founder
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of the Methodist church.
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But it's also a family name.
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So I felt like Wyatt Wesley.
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Then, of course, his last name.
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But the three dubs, you know, W-W-W.
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- I love it.
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- World Wide Web is what we call him.
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Triple Dub.
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- Yeah.
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But what a miracle.
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We're so honored to have you.
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Thank you so much for coming all the way
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from Miami to Los Angeles to make this deposit.
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Come on, let's tune in right now.
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Let's watch Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr.
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- If you have a Bible,
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turn with me quickly to the book of Genesis.
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Genesis chapter 40, I wanna read a few verses.
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Scripture says in Genesis chapter 40, verse 1,
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"Some time later,
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the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt
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offended their master, the king of Egypt.
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Pharaoh was angry with his two officials,
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the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
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and put them in custody
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in the house of the captain of the guard,
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in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
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The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph,
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and he attended them.
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After they had been in custody for some time,
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each of the two men--
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the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt,
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who were being held in prison--had a dream the same night,
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and each dream had a meaning of its own.
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When Joseph," look at this, verse six,
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"when Joseph came to them
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the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.
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So he asked Pharaoh's officials
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who were in custody with him in the master's house,
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'why are your faces so sad today?'
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'we both had dreams,' they answered,
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'but there is no one to interpret them.'
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Then Joseph said to them,
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'do not interpretations belong to God?
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Tell me your dreams.'"
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I wanna take a few moments today
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and I just felt led kinda coming to this conference
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to land on this topic and this subject.
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I'm not sure if this message
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really is for everybody in this room.
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But I do have a sense, in my spirit,
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that this message is for quite a few people in this room.
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I wanna preach a message,
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and the title might kind of throw you off a little bit,
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but we'll unpack it together.
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I wanna preach from the subject today,
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Incubation through Isolation.
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Incubation through Isolation.
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I think it's really important message.
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Especially with the audience that we're speaking to today.
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Thinking about millennials,
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and thinking about the fact that most of us in this room,
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we deal with a patience problem.
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We deal with a process problem.
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I want to encourage the dream that's on the inside of you.
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And I'm gonna believe today that as we finish this session,
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that some of you, that dream's gonna be awakened.
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And others of you, you're gonna say,
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"I'm not giving up on that dream that God has given me."
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And so would you pray with me?
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Let's believe that the Holy Spirit's
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gonna use these words today to minister to your heart.
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Lord, we thank you so much that You're here.
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We thank You that You're moving.
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God, we thank You for all that You've already done, Lord.
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From last night's session to this morning's session.
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But Lord, we believe that You're the God
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who continues, Lord, to do more.
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So we open up ourselves again to You.
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And we ask that You move in this place.
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We love You, we praise You.
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And all of God's people said
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- [crowd] Amen.
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- Come on, all of God's people said?
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- Amen.
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- Come on, if you love Jesus,
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somebody make some noise in this house.
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(crowd cheering)
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- So it would not be right,
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because so many of you we know and we love
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and have journeyed with us,
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but my wife and I have been married for 12 years.
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But if you don't know,
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we went on an eight-year journey of infertility.
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And believe and hoping that we'd have a child.
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And after talking to many doctors,
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many times we thought that
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that dream would never come to pass.
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But six months ago, in the month of January,
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God, who is the God of the impossible, did a miracle.
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And my wife gave birth to our first born son.
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(crowd cheering)
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Do you all wanna meet my son?
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Can I introduce you to my son?
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All right, here comes my boy.
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Here's my boy.
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Oh, snap!
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(crowd cheering)
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm just gonna hold him for a second.
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This is my son Wyatt Wesley Wilkerson.
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That's some good initials right there.
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W-W-W.
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We call him World Wide Web for short.
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(crowd laughing)
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Nope, nope, nope.
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Okay, here we go, what do you wanna say?
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He loves to eat microphones.
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It's his thing.
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This is Wyatt and he's just our miracle boy.
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We love this guy so much.
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The other day, we were in London,
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he had these headphones on,
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and this guy walks up to him during the worship service,
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and he goes, "what is he listening to?"
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(crowd laughs)
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I was like, "he's listening to the new Drake album."
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No, I'm kidding.
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(crowd laughing)
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"He's listening to ZOE worship, he don't like your worship."
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(crowd laughing)
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"These are for the noise."
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For those of you who don't have kids.
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(crowd laughing)
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But this is Wyatt.
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And I wanted to bring him up here
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because I think it's important for our generation
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to understand that we serve a God
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who is in the business of doing the impossible.
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We serve a wonder-working God who's still a healer,
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He's still a deliverer.
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He's still a God who shows up late in the midnight hour.
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(crowd applauding)
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One of the beautiful things that DawnChere discover
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is that we discover
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that a waiting season never has to be a wasted season.
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(crowd exclaims)
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That even while you're waiting for God to do something,
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and you're wanting God to do something through your life,
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He typically does something in your life first.
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I wanted to bring Wyatt up here
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because he just turned six months two weeks ago.
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And we're celebrating every moment of it.
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And I love this kid so much.
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I was thinking about it, 'cause DawnChere and I,
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we went on this eight-year journey of hoping
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to have a child.
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And believing for a child.
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And praying for a child.
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And after that day when we found out that we were pregnant,
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what's crazy is that we had been waiting for eight years
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and the day we discover that we heard that we were pregnant,
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there's another journey.
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You have to wait nine months.
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And I was thinking the other day, I'll never forget it
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because every week that passed,
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my wife and I, we had this app
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that would show what size fruit he was
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or it would describe everything to you.
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And there was this mile marker
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that you wanted to get to 38 weeks or 39 weeks or 40 weeks.
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Because how many of you know that if he comes any earlier
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than his due date, he risk being born premature?
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I think many times that's how God works in our life.
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Is that many times He gives us a dream
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and this God-dream comes on our life
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and so many of us, we're desperate for the dream to occur.
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We're desperate for that vision to take shape.
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The thing that we see.
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That church that He spoke to you.
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Why is it not happened yet?
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I wanna speak today from the premise
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that if that thing happens too soon,
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it will be born premature.
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- [Crowd] Come on.
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(crowd agreeing)
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- And if your dream is born prematurely,
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what they do is, when a baby is born prematurely,
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I discovered this in the hospital,
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I didn't know anything about being a parent,
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but I was walking through the hospital
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and I saw these little babies that were born early.
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And they put them in these things called an incubator.
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An incubator is a device that controls the environment.
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So that that baby can continue to grow and be healthy.
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What's wild is that the womb is a natural incubator.
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Yet as you look at the womb, I think about my son,
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my son had to go through nine months
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of what appeared like he was all alone
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before he could arrive.
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And that's how often times our lives have to look.
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They have to be alone
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before can God announce us to the world.
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Can you all put your hands out for Wyatt Wesley Wilkerson?
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Come on.
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(crowd cheers)
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Hey, you're a good boy.
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Hey, I am so proud of you.
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You are my son, whom I'm well pleased with.
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Holy Spirit, come.
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No, I'm kidding.
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(crowd laughs)
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I think, often what takes place is that
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we don't understand that there's these moments
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that we feel like we're in isolation.
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Yet I would challenge you today,
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that maybe the thing that you're calling isolation,
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is actually God's incubation.
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- [Crowd] Wow.
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- The word incubation means to develop slowly
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without outward or perceptible signs.
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- [Crowd] Wow, preach.
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- You ever felt that way before?
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You ever felt like you're in a moment that,
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"man, I don't see the growth."
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"I don't see the development."
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"I don't see it taking shape."
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Maybe, just maybe,
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God is putting you into the incubator just a little bit.
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I started working out about a year and a half ago
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and I love going to the gym now.
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But it took me a long time before I loved going to gym.
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And how many of you know
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that muscles are not the start of strength,
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muscles are a sign of strength.
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That they have to take shape.
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If you think about a farmer,
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I loved how Julie was talking about it
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A farmer puts a seed in the ground.
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No farmer puts a seed in the ground and then says,
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"alright, let's have a eulogy.
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Let's have a funeral service, this seed is dead."
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No, no, no, no.
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This seed is not being buried as John said last night.
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This seed is being planted.
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As I plant the seed, time is gonna take place.
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The seed has to go all alone into the ground,
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yet I'm telling you, before fruition, isolation must occur.
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And rest assured.
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Let me just encourage you, rest assured.
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When you grow,
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it feels slow.
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If you wanna grow, you gotta be okay with going slow.
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I love this idea of incubation through isolation.
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I think the principle is really laid out
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in the life of Joseph.
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Those of you that are maybe new to church,
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and you don't know the story of Joseph,
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Joseph's a really interesting story.
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Joseph is one of the 12 sons of this guy named Jacob.
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Jacob later has his name changed to Israel.
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Israel, the 12 tribes of Israel.
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The promise of Abraham.
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But Jacob's 11th son, his name was Joseph.
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And as you study the Scriptures,
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Joseph has this favor on his life.
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And as Joseph is 17 years of age,
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that's always, always a pivotal age for me,
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because at 17, God called me into full time ministry.
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My life was radically changed.
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Joseph, 17 years of age, get this God-dream.
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Yet the minute he gets this God-dream,
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what we have to always remember,
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is that a dream that hasn't been tested
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is a dream that can't be trusted.
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(crowd exclaims)
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And so if you're gonna get a God-dream,
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you have to be willing to walk through the test
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of that dream.
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The first test that Joseph goes through
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is that he announces this dream prematurely.
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He goes to his brothers like,
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"hey guys, last night I had a dream,
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I saw all of you guys bowing down to me."
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Well guess what, they hate him for it.
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They say, "let's kill him."
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They go, "let's not kill him, let's throw him in a pit.
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Let's sell him to slavery."
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You think your ends up in this guy in Egypt,
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this guy named Potiphar.
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Potiphar's this big time dude, a lot of money, affluent,
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and before you know it, Joseph got favor on his life,
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and Potiphar's like, "I'm gonna make you number two
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of my entire household."
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The problem is not only does he have favor with Potiphar,
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but Mrs. Potiphar likes Joseph too.
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Joseph's first test was the test of rejection.
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Joseph's second test was the test of temptation.
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Because Ms. Potiphar comes up to him,
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she doesn't slide up in the direct messages,
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no she's very direct.
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She says, "hey boy, I want you to come to bed with me."
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The Bible says that Joseph,
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he literally runs from Potiphar's wife.
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He's like, "take my coat, you can't have my body."
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(crowd laughs) He runs.
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"No. I don't want it, okay?"
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The woman lies about him and says,
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"no, he tried to rape me."
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Potiphar gets enraged, gets so angry and says,
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"Joseph, I'm sending you into the prison."
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What a tough spot when you do the right thing
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but it leads to the wrong place.
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(crowd exclaims)
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Joseph's passed the test of rejection.
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He's passed the test of temptation.
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And now he's thrown in the prison cell
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and many times we don't talk about Joseph in the prison.
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Yet I believe Joseph in the prison is now facing the test
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of what I call the test of isolation.
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I don't think Joseph, at the time, knew.
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But I think God was using that prison as an incubator
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to develop Joseph for the palace.
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To develop Joseph for a promotion.
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To develop Joseph for prosperity.
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But before he got to any of those places,
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he had to go through the prison.
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It's called incubation through isolation.
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I just felt encouraged today to encourage you
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that if you feel like you're alone today,
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maybe, just maybe, you're actually simply in the incubator.
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- [Crowd] Wow.
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- And God is developing you.
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This is the simplest sermon I could preach.
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Three basic thoughts on isolation.
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Number one, I want you to write this down.
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Isolation is not a permanent destination.
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It's not.
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So before I start preaching, you're like,
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"that's it, I knew it, I need to live all--"
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You're not supposed to live all alone.
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Isolation is a season; it's not a permanent destination.
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It's a moment.
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It's part of the process.
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Challenge that you and I have,
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is that the world we live in is that everybody around us,
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we all wanna arrive,
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but very few of us are very willing to take the trip.
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We all wanna purpose
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but, "leave me out of the whole process part."
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Isolation is never a permanent destination.
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As you continue to read the story of Joseph,
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you'll discover that the prison
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was just a scene in his life
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it wasn't the whole story of his life.
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See suicide occurs
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when you start actually just focusing simply on the scene
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rather than on the whole story.
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(crowd exclaims)
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Depression occurs when you're just focused on your scene
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instead of focusing on the story God is willing to tell.
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Listen to me, what is a story without a struggle?
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- [Crowd] Come on.
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- Some of you want a great story to tell your grandkids
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but if you don't ever get into the prison cell,
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if you don't ever go into the incubator,
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if you don't ever walk through some moments of isolation
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you don't have a story to tell.
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(crowd applauding)
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It's challenging for us because in October of 2007,
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this device known as the iPhone
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was introduced into the world.
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I love the iPhone.
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I'm very very thankful for it.
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Rest in peace, Steve Jobs.
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But it's messed with a lot of us.
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Because a lot of us now,
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what happens is all we know is instant,
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right this minute, right now.
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This moment.
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The iPhone camera has destroyed us.
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Because now you take 9.000 photos a day.
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"Wanna see what I'm eating?"
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No, we don't want to see what you're eating.
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I mean, selfie.
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We just take so many pictures.
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But anybody in this room actually remember a real camera?
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A real camera.
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Remember there's a whole process to that thing.
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You would go and buy camera.
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You would never let somebody take a selfie with your camera.
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You only got 12 pictures.
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(crowd laughs)
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If you're really balling, 24, you know!
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(crowd laughs)
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Remember, every photo really mattered.
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You know what I'm talking about?
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You didn't play games with your camera.
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You would get a group picture.
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You'd get someone to put everyone into a pose.
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You'd check the wind.
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How's the light.
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Remember, you would take a photo.
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Then I remember afterwards after you took all the pictures,
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remember you had to wind it up?
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(crowd laughs) It hurt your thumb.
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Ow, ow!
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Ow!
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Wind it.
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Remember the best part was that you'd take the film out,
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if anyone actually remembers this,
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you felt like you were a spy because you'd pull the film out
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and it can't be in sunlight very long.
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You'd have to quickly put it in that spy capsule.
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Remember this? (tongue pops)
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You put it in there.
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where you would drop off all your photos.
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Remember?
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And you'd come back in two days.
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And for two days you would just talk about,
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"man, can't wait to see these pictures."
00:26:10.170 --> 00:26:12.030
(crowd laughing)
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"I can't be certain, but I feel like vacation was good.
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I cannot wait to show you my vacation.
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It's was great, it was great."
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Remember that?
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- [Crowd] Yes!
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- But now (shutter noise) we would just take so many
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and it just happens so quickly.
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One of the wild things about photography
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is that a real photo it goes through this process.
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Part of the process is there's this moment
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that it goes into this thing called the dark room.
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And it's in the dark room that the picture is developed.
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Now listen, the film doesn't stay in the dark room.
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- [Man In The Crowd] Preach!
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- It goes through the dark room.
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(crowd cheers)
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"Yea, though I walk through the valley
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of the shadow of death."
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You're not called to the valley,
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you're called to walk through the valley!
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This is not my permanent destination!
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I'm walking through this thing so I come out stronger.
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Come on, somebody give God a shout of praise in this house!
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(crowd cheers)
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You're coming through it!
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The season is developing something in me.
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I wish I could bring you back to 17 years of age,
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Adelaide, Australia,
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Rich Wilkerson Jr. getting rocked by God
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on the second row at a conference.
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And all of a sudden I got this vision for my life.
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It was huge.
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It was big.
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So much of what I'm doing now I can draw it all the way back
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to 17 years of age and the picture that God showed me.
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Yet the minute I got back to Miami,
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it was like test of isolation.
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God started cutting stuff off out of my life.
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Started saying, "you can't go there."
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"You can't be with them."
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It's not that the people were bad.
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It's not that the places were bad.
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It's just that God was saying, "no, I need you to get alone
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so I can begin to do stuff inside of you.
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I need you to go through a season of isolation
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so I can develop you."
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God had to detach me in order to develop me.
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You know what I learned in that place?
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Yes, it was lonely.
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But I learned how to lean on God.
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(crowd cheering)
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Some of you've never got lonely enough to realize
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that your God is a Comforter.
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(crowd cheering)
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You've never gotten out there in the valley long enough
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to know that He's not just the God of the mountaintop,
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but He is the God of the valley.
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And He works miracles even in your isolation.
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Come on, somebody, give God a shout of praise.
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(crowd cheering)
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God was using a prison in Joseph's life
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to shape him and develop him.
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I would say that Joseph learned more about being a king
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living in a prison than he ever did the palace.
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- [Crowd] Wow.
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You, youth pastor, right now, you're going,
00:28:48.150 --> 00:28:50.000
"man I can't get this thing to grow.
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I don't know, why are only 33 kids showing up.
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I see 200 in my mind, but it's only 33."
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I'm telling you, God is teaching you something right now
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in this season of isolation.
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It's like an incubator.
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It's developing.
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I'm telling some of you out here
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that moved to Hollywood, with a big dream, and you're going,
00:29:05.260 --> 00:29:07.120
"wow, all I face is rejection,
00:29:07.120 --> 00:29:09.140
after rejection,
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after rejection.
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Nobody sees me.
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Nobody knows about me.
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Nobody cares about me."
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I'm telling you that God is developing something in you.
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It's called incubation through isolation.
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You don't want this dream to come out premature.
00:29:20.120 --> 00:29:23.000
(crowd agreeing)
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Isolation is not a permanent destination.
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Number two, what I see is this.
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I see that isolation is an invitation.
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Isolation is an invitation.
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Somebody today, this is what you came
00:29:35.260 --> 00:29:37.080
to this whole conference for is to hear this.
00:29:37.080 --> 00:29:39.170
Because this is going to change
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your whole perspective around.
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Joseph, here he is in the prison.
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He's thrown in the prison,
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:46.060
for doing something that he did not do.
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Yet the Scripture says, that even in the prison,
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God is still with Joseph.
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Yet something about Joseph,
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:55.260
is I think he always found the invitation.
00:29:55.260 --> 00:29:58.010
I've learned that isolation
00:29:58.010 --> 00:29:59.250
is an invitation for a new determination.
00:29:59.250 --> 00:30:02.080
Isolation is an invitation for new connections.
00:30:02.080 --> 00:30:04.240
Isolation is an invitation for innovation.
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:08.130
Joseph, there's something about this guy.
00:30:09.230 --> 00:30:11.080
You ever met somebody who's so positive
00:30:11.080 --> 00:30:13.070
they almost make you negative?
00:30:13.070 --> 00:30:14.220
(crowd laughing)
00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:18.100
Chad Veach, I mean, come on.
00:30:18.100 --> 00:30:19.220
"It's great, it's great!"
00:30:21.080 --> 00:30:22.070
"Oh, it's good, it's good!"
00:30:22.070 --> 00:30:24.170
This is Joseph.
00:30:24.170 --> 00:30:25.160
He's got this contagious spirit.
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:30.110
He's got this good spirit.
00:30:30.110 --> 00:30:32.010
Something about his spirit, I like.
00:30:32.010 --> 00:30:34.220
Rich had you see it.
00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:35.290
Well you read there in Genesis chapter 40.
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Bible says that the cupbearer and the baker,
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both these other inmates with him, they go to prison,
00:30:40.120 --> 00:30:41.290
they have these dreams, and I love Joseph,
00:30:41.290 --> 00:30:43.280
Joseph walks around, it's just hilarious to me,
00:30:43.280 --> 00:30:45.210
he walks over, he's like,
00:30:45.210 --> 00:30:46.290
"hey guys, why are you so sad today?"
00:30:46.290 --> 00:30:49.110
(crowd laughs)
00:30:49.110 --> 00:30:50.200
"Uh, 'cause we're in prison, bro."
00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:52.120
"Come on, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good."
00:30:53.250 --> 00:30:55.070
"It's not good, we're in priso--"
00:30:56.120 --> 00:30:57.200
"No, it's good, it's good, it's good."
00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:59.170
You ever met someone
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:02.240
with the right spirit of contagious spirit?
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:04.220
My wife and I for about four or five years,
00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:06.140
we lived in this loft apartment in downtown Miami.
00:31:06.140 --> 00:31:10.030
And everyday, DawnChere can confirm this,
00:31:12.060 --> 00:31:14.290
there was this maintenance man in our complex.
00:31:14.290 --> 00:31:18.260
This man spoke no English whatsoever.
00:31:18.260 --> 00:31:21.150
He was a maintenance man.
00:31:21.150 --> 00:31:22.160
His job was to mop the floors.
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:24.170
Yet something about this guy.
00:31:24.170 --> 00:31:26.000
He had this spirit, it was contagious.
00:31:27.050 --> 00:31:29.260
I would come out of my house and he would see me and go,
00:31:29.260 --> 00:31:31.270
"Aha!"
00:31:31.270 --> 00:31:33.100
(crowd laughs)
00:31:33.100 --> 00:31:35.110
"Papi, haha!"
00:31:35.110 --> 00:31:38.110
(crowd chuckles)
00:31:38.110 --> 00:31:41.040
And he always loved my shoes.
00:31:45.110 --> 00:31:46.250
"Hahaha, Papi!"
00:31:46.250 --> 00:31:48.240
"Shoes."
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:49.190
Like it's hard to have a bad day
00:31:54.150 --> 00:31:56.090
when your maintenance man is calling you, "Papi!"
00:31:57.220 --> 00:32:00.030
(crowd laughs)
00:32:00.030 --> 00:32:01.170
True story, I remember one day, it's true story,
00:32:01.170 --> 00:32:02.200
you can't make this up.
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:03.280
It was a Monday morning at 6 a.m.
00:32:03.280 --> 00:32:07.030
I'm not even sure Jesus is awake Monday morning at 6 a.m.
00:32:07.030 --> 00:32:10.140
(crowd laughs)
00:32:10.140 --> 00:32:12.210
I open the door out of my apartment.
00:32:12.210 --> 00:32:14.270
And when I open the door,
00:32:14.270 --> 00:32:16.120
my maintenance man is three feet in front of my door.
00:32:16.120 --> 00:32:19.040
He goes, "Aha, Papi!"
00:32:19.040 --> 00:32:20.210
"Bang, bang, bang ,bang!"
00:32:20.210 --> 00:32:22.070
(crowd laughs)
00:32:22.070 --> 00:32:24.240
I was like, "ah, ah, ah, ah!"
00:32:30.260 --> 00:32:33.110
(crowd laughs)
00:32:33.110 --> 00:32:35.040
Maybe I am Papi!
00:32:35.040 --> 00:32:36.160
There's something about a contagious spirit.
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:47.230
It trumps language.
00:32:47.230 --> 00:32:49.050
It trumps position.
00:32:49.050 --> 00:32:50.280
You can have the right spirit
00:32:50.280 --> 00:32:52.170
even though you're in the wrong place.
00:32:52.170 --> 00:32:55.060
(crowd applauding)
00:32:55.060 --> 00:32:58.040
Joseph, he has this.
00:32:59.090 --> 00:33:02.000
He's not letting his position
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.220
take away his purpose.
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:07.280
- [Crowd] Wow, wow.
00:33:07.280 --> 00:33:09.080
- Some of you in this room,
00:33:09.080 --> 00:33:10.160
let me just pastor you for a moment.
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:12.170
You are so full of excuses.
00:33:12.170 --> 00:33:15.000
Why you can't.
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:15.250
Why you won't.
00:33:15.250 --> 00:33:16.230
Why you shouldn't.
00:33:16.230 --> 00:33:17.210
Why you would if you could
00:33:17.210 --> 00:33:19.090
but your position has removed your purpose.
00:33:19.090 --> 00:33:22.030
- [Man In The Crowd] Wow.
00:33:22.030 --> 00:33:23.100
- All you gotta do is open up your eyes
00:33:23.100 --> 00:33:24.200
and study the life of Joseph to discover,
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:26.290
here's Joseph in a prison, he walks up to these guys,
00:33:26.290 --> 00:33:30.160
and he's like, "why are you so sad today?"
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.120
"We had some dreams; we don't know what these dreams mean."
00:33:32.120 --> 00:33:34.240
Joseph's like, "yo, doesn't God interpret dreams?
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.220
I know something about dreams.
00:33:37.220 --> 00:33:39.090
Let me serve you."
00:33:39.090 --> 00:33:40.290
(crowd exclaiming)
00:33:40.290 --> 00:33:43.270
The prison doesn't stop him from serving
00:33:43.270 --> 00:33:46.020
the people around him.
00:33:46.020 --> 00:33:47.230
(crowd exclaiming)
00:33:47.230 --> 00:33:48.290
- [Man In The Crowd] Come on, pastor.
00:33:48.290 --> 00:33:50.080
- I, one time read this study about depression.
00:33:50.080 --> 00:33:53.070
And they ask this doctor,
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:55.250
"if you couldn't use medication
00:33:55.250 --> 00:33:58.030
and if you really didn't believe in faith,
00:33:58.030 --> 00:34:00.040
what would be the most basic thing that you would say
00:34:00.040 --> 00:34:02.020
to somebody who's dealing with depression?
00:34:02.020 --> 00:34:04.290
How would you say for them to get going?"
00:34:04.290 --> 00:34:06.210
And he said, the most basic thing I could say is,
00:34:06.210 --> 00:34:08.260
"get up off the couch and go help somebody else in need."
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- [Crowd] Yes!
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Regardless of where we are.
00:34:17.250 --> 00:34:20.090
Even in my season of isolation
00:34:20.090 --> 00:34:22.060
I can discover there's an invitation to serve.
00:34:22.060 --> 00:34:25.160
Listen to me.
00:34:27.060 --> 00:34:28.010
What you focus on when you're alone
00:34:29.070 --> 00:34:31.290
is what will manifest when you're announced.
00:34:31.290 --> 00:34:34.190
- [Woman In The Crowd] Come on!
00:34:34.190 --> 00:34:37.110
- You put a demand on your gift in private
00:34:37.110 --> 00:34:41.030
and watch as the world puts a demand on your gift in public.
00:34:41.030 --> 00:34:45.200
- [Man In The Crowd] Come on, preach.
00:34:45.200 --> 00:34:47.050
Joseph is not waiting for the palace.
00:34:47.050 --> 00:34:49.270
Joseph is not waiting for the conference.
00:34:49.270 --> 00:34:52.080
Joseph is not waiting for a microphone.
00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:54.240
Joseph is saying, "there's two guys in front of me,
00:34:54.240 --> 00:34:57.050
they got a problem, I got the solution on the inside of me,
00:34:57.050 --> 00:35:01.050
I might as well start serving you right where I am.
00:35:01.050 --> 00:35:04.020
I see the invitation."
00:35:04.020 --> 00:35:05.210
(crowd cheering)
00:35:05.210 --> 00:35:07.220
I just wanna help some young preachers out there.
00:35:07.220 --> 00:35:10.050
Bro, 17 years of age, God spoke to me,
00:35:10.050 --> 00:35:12.250
gave me a vision for my life.
00:35:12.250 --> 00:35:14.260
And there it was, a big God-dream.
00:35:14.260 --> 00:35:16.290
"Hey Rich, you're gonna do some stuff."
00:35:16.290 --> 00:35:18.290
But I'm telling you, it was the test of rejection.
00:35:18.290 --> 00:35:20.230
It's the test of temptation.
00:35:20.230 --> 00:35:22.090
It's the test of isolation.
00:35:22.090 --> 00:35:24.070
I remember going to Bible college, 18 years of age,
00:35:24.070 --> 00:35:27.200
and having just this brokenness for our school.
00:35:27.200 --> 00:35:30.160
Doesn't even make sense.
00:35:30.160 --> 00:35:31.110
Why did I have a passion
00:35:31.110 --> 00:35:33.040
to see people get saved at Bible college?
00:35:33.040 --> 00:35:35.120
That's kinda weird.
00:35:35.120 --> 00:35:37.050
But nonetheless, I was like,
00:35:37.050 --> 00:35:38.120
"we gotta start a prayer meeting."
00:35:38.120 --> 00:35:39.100
But really the prayer meeting,
00:35:39.100 --> 00:35:40.240
was just a cover-up so I can get up and preach a little bit.
00:35:40.240 --> 00:35:43.280
(crowd chuckles)
00:35:44.240 --> 00:35:46.000
So I start with eight people, I get up.
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.000
I didn't really know how to preach,
00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.150
but I just kinda open up the Bible and would start yelling.
00:35:49.150 --> 00:35:51.120
It would get kinda weird.
00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:52.250
I was like, "alright, let's just close in prayer."
00:35:52.250 --> 00:35:55.000
(crowd chuckling)
00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:56.260
But God was using it.
00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:57.210
God was growing it.
00:35:57.210 --> 00:35:58.170
God was building it.
00:35:58.170 --> 00:35:59.280
I'll never forget one time
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.080
I drove across the state of Georgia.
00:36:01.080 --> 00:36:03.020
Five hours.
00:36:03.020 --> 00:36:04.260
And when I got to the meeting,
00:36:04.260 --> 00:36:06.040
there was only five people in the audience.
00:36:06.040 --> 00:36:09.250
I still used a microphone.
00:36:09.250 --> 00:36:11.230
- [Lady In The Crowd] Come on!
00:36:11.230 --> 00:36:12.250
(crowd cheering)
00:36:12.250 --> 00:36:14.010
Why? Because I didn't see five people.
00:36:14.010 --> 00:36:16.070
I saw an invitation that one day,
00:36:16.070 --> 00:36:19.000
God could maybe, just maybe use my life to bring a revival
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:23.050
all across the land.
00:36:23.050 --> 00:36:24.210
And I'm not waiting
00:36:24.210 --> 00:36:26.010
for a promotion.
00:36:28.020 --> 00:36:29.090
I got an invitation even in my isolation.
00:36:29.090 --> 00:36:32.150
(crowd cheering)
00:36:32.150 --> 00:36:35.080
See this is how God works.
00:36:35.080 --> 00:36:36.270
God wants to know, would you do it if you are unknown?
00:36:36.270 --> 00:36:40.280
- [Crowd] Come on!
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:41.250
- God wants you to know,
00:36:41.250 --> 00:36:43.260
would you behave that way if nobody was watching?
00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:47.090
Would you serve your way into a place of promotion?
00:36:47.090 --> 00:36:50.090
What I've learned about God
00:36:51.230 --> 00:36:52.270
is that God will reserve you for Himself
00:36:52.270 --> 00:36:54.200
before He reveals you to others.
00:36:54.200 --> 00:36:56.110
- [Girl In The Crowd] Come on!
00:36:56.110 --> 00:36:58.080
- And some of you need a revelation today
00:36:58.080 --> 00:36:59.250
that just because you're alone,
00:36:59.250 --> 00:37:01.070
and just because nobody knows who you are,
00:37:01.070 --> 00:37:03.120
you need to discover the invitation
00:37:03.120 --> 00:37:05.120
in this season called isolation.
00:37:05.120 --> 00:37:07.180
Because I'm telling you,
00:37:07.180 --> 00:37:08.190
you are God's best kept secret
00:37:08.190 --> 00:37:11.010
that He is getting ready to shout all throughout the land.
00:37:11.010 --> 00:37:15.190
(crowd cheers)
00:37:15.190 --> 00:37:18.070
Isolation it's an invitation.
00:37:20.070 --> 00:37:22.060
I'mma grow in this space.
00:37:22.060 --> 00:37:24.000
I'mma learn in this space.
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:25.010
God's doing something.
00:37:25.010 --> 00:37:26.080
I'm in the incubator.
00:37:26.080 --> 00:37:27.240
I'm developing slowly without outward or perceptible signs.
00:37:27.240 --> 00:37:31.050
I don't wanna come out premature.
00:37:31.050 --> 00:37:33.030
I wanna be right on time.
00:37:33.030 --> 00:37:35.010
(crowd agreeing)
00:37:35.010 --> 00:37:36.170
As the worship team comes up here,
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I love Joseph.
00:37:38.120 --> 00:37:39.180
Joseph, he interprets these guys dreams.
00:37:39.180 --> 00:37:41.030
And you gotta go and read it.
00:37:41.030 --> 00:37:42.190
I don't have time to give you all the details of it.
00:37:42.190 --> 00:37:43.260
There's such beauty in all the story.
00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:47.050
Ultimately, there's a baker and there's a cupbearer.
00:37:47.050 --> 00:37:51.090
You say, "what's a cupbearer?"
00:37:51.090 --> 00:37:52.220
A cupbearer was somebody that would work for the king.
00:37:52.220 --> 00:37:54.280
He had to drink the king's wine
00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:56.230
before the king drank his wine just in case it was poisoned.
00:37:56.230 --> 00:37:59.230
So next time you complain about your job.
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.090
(crowd laughs)
00:38:03.090 --> 00:38:05.260
"Well, you could be a cupbearer, you know?"
00:38:07.040 --> 00:38:10.090
(crowd laughs)
00:38:10.090 --> 00:38:13.030
So they both get these dreams.
00:38:13.030 --> 00:38:15.120
I love Joseph.
00:38:15.120 --> 00:38:16.270
Joseph's like, "yo, Mr. Cupbearer, check this out,
00:38:16.270 --> 00:38:19.010
what's gonna happen is this, in three days,
00:38:19.010 --> 00:38:21.140
Pharaoh, he's gonna fully reinstate you.
00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:23.180
You're back to your position.
00:38:23.180 --> 00:38:24.160
It's going to be awesome."
00:38:24.160 --> 00:38:26.090
Then you gotta keep reading.
00:38:26.090 --> 00:38:27.230
Joseph, he's so cool, he's like,
00:38:27.230 --> 00:38:29.180
"Mr. Baker, not such a good story for you.
00:38:29.180 --> 00:38:34.100
In three days, Pharaoh is gonna call your name
00:38:34.100 --> 00:38:36.200
and you're gonna be executed."
00:38:36.200 --> 00:38:39.060
Where do you go from there?
00:38:39.060 --> 00:38:40.170
"Wanna play Uno?"
00:38:41.160 --> 00:38:42.190
What do you say, you know?
00:38:42.190 --> 00:38:43.140
(crowd laughs)
00:38:43.140 --> 00:38:46.240
It's cold-blooded, you know.
00:38:46.240 --> 00:38:48.060
Joseph has one request.
00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:51.120
He says, "Mr. Cupbearer, do me a favor.
00:38:51.120 --> 00:38:54.060
My brother's turned their back on me.
00:38:57.100 --> 00:38:59.110
My dad thinks I'm dead, I'm actually alive.
00:38:59.110 --> 00:39:01.180
I was sold into slavery.
00:39:01.180 --> 00:39:02.270
Mrs. Potiphar lied about me.
00:39:04.030 --> 00:39:05.130
I've been in prison now.
00:39:05.130 --> 00:39:06.140
I was 17.
00:39:06.140 --> 00:39:07.230
I've been in prison for a lot of years.
00:39:07.230 --> 00:39:08.290
I didn't even do what they said I did.
00:39:08.290 --> 00:39:10.220
Can you just do me a favor?
00:39:10.220 --> 00:39:12.130
Would you just remember me as the king reinstates you?"
00:39:12.130 --> 00:39:17.120
And of course, the cupbearer's like, "yeah, yeah, yeah."
00:39:18.290 --> 00:39:19.280
"I got you, man. I got you."
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:21.180
Three days later, just like Joseph interpreted,
00:39:21.180 --> 00:39:25.250
the baker was executed, the cupbearer was reinstated,
00:39:25.250 --> 00:39:28.070
but as you read the story, what you'll discover,
00:39:28.070 --> 00:39:30.250
is that the cupbearer actually forgot about Joseph.
00:39:30.250 --> 00:39:33.120
He forgets about Joseph for two more years.
00:39:34.160 --> 00:39:38.050
Two more years.
00:39:40.190 --> 00:39:41.250
Until finally, as you read into Genesis chapter 40,
00:39:43.290 --> 00:39:46.280
Pharaoh himself, starts having these reoccurring dreams.
00:39:48.100 --> 00:39:52.250
And they're haunting him.
00:39:53.210 --> 00:39:54.190
They're messing with him.
00:39:54.190 --> 00:39:55.130
They're tormenting him.
00:39:55.130 --> 00:39:56.070
And so what does he do?
00:39:56.070 --> 00:39:57.230
He calls upon the magicians, he calls upon the sorcerers,
00:39:57.230 --> 00:39:59.110
he calls upon the life coaches and self-help.
00:39:59.110 --> 00:40:01.200
He calls upon everybody out there in the world and say,
00:40:01.200 --> 00:40:03.250
"who can solve my problem?"
00:40:03.250 --> 00:40:05.080
- [Man In The Crowd] Come on.
00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:07.220
- And it's in that moment,
00:40:07.220 --> 00:40:09.170
he keeps having this dream over and over again,
00:40:10.290 --> 00:40:12.250
there the cupbearer's like, "oh my goodness!"
00:40:12.250 --> 00:40:15.010
"Totally forgot."
00:40:17.070 --> 00:40:18.120
"The guy who got me here, his name's Joseph,
00:40:20.020 --> 00:40:22.160
yeah you threw him in prison, he's down there.
00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:25.070
He does this; he helps people figure out their dreams."
00:40:25.070 --> 00:40:29.180
Pharaoh's like, "go get him, call him!"
00:40:29.180 --> 00:40:32.120
And so they go and they grab Joseph.
00:40:33.180 --> 00:40:35.260
Joseph comes out of that prison
00:40:35.260 --> 00:40:37.050
looking like Tom Hanks from "Castaway."
00:40:37.050 --> 00:40:39.010
(crowd laughs)
00:40:39.010 --> 00:40:42.050
Clean him up.
00:40:42.050 --> 00:40:43.000
They put Egyptian musk on him.
00:40:44.120 --> 00:40:45.210
And he looks good.
00:40:45.210 --> 00:40:46.180
They bring Joseph into Pharaoh's quarters
00:40:49.170 --> 00:40:53.120
and Pharaoh tells him one of his dreams,
00:40:53.120 --> 00:40:54.220
"yeah, I've had this dream."
00:40:54.220 --> 00:40:55.270
You gotta read it's a crazy dream.
00:40:55.270 --> 00:40:56.250
He's like, "this is what I see.
00:40:56.250 --> 00:40:58.030
I see every night, when I go to bed,
00:40:58.030 --> 00:40:59.090
I see these seven fat cows.
00:40:59.090 --> 00:41:01.000
They come up out of the Nile River.
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:02.190
And they look really really good.
00:41:02.190 --> 00:41:04.040
But the right behind them are these seven scrawny cows
00:41:04.040 --> 00:41:07.190
and they're about to die.
00:41:07.190 --> 00:41:08.260
But as they come out of the river,
00:41:08.260 --> 00:41:09.240
they eat the seven fat cows.
00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:11.040
I'm telling you, man.
00:41:11.040 --> 00:41:12.040
I can't get any sleep at night.
00:41:12.040 --> 00:41:13.180
I can't find any peace.
00:41:13.180 --> 00:41:15.020
I don't know what I'm dreaming about.
00:41:15.020 --> 00:41:18.060
I love Joseph, he's like,
00:41:18.060 --> 00:41:19.210
"well Pharaoh, don't all dreams come from God?"
00:41:19.210 --> 00:41:24.030
(woman yells)
00:41:24.030 --> 00:41:25.160
"Maybe I could talk to God on your behalf."
00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:28.160
"And maybe God will give me the answer."
00:41:28.160 --> 00:41:31.050
You can't interpret Pharaoh's dream
00:41:33.190 --> 00:41:35.220
until you first have interpreted prisoner's dreams.
00:41:35.220 --> 00:41:38.130
- [Man In The Crowd] Come on.
00:41:38.130 --> 00:41:40.140
- This ain't new to Joseph.
00:41:40.140 --> 00:41:42.260
He's been here before.
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:47.030
- [Man In The Crowd] Preach, come on!
00:41:47.030 --> 00:41:48.110
- And what it tells me, is that tells me
00:41:48.110 --> 00:41:49.170
that isolation often leads to your elevation.
00:41:49.170 --> 00:41:53.050
(crowd cheers)
00:41:53.050 --> 00:41:55.220
For Joseph's like, "yo, Mr. King,
00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.210
here's what your dream means.
00:41:59.210 --> 00:42:01.200
Your dream means that for the next seven years,
00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:03.260
Egypt is gonna have such a harvest.
00:42:03.260 --> 00:42:06.200
It's gonna be plentiful.
00:42:06.200 --> 00:42:07.280
I mean, everything's gonna be prosperous.
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:09.150
Everything's gonna grow.
00:42:09.150 --> 00:42:10.210
But Pharaoh, listen to me,
00:42:10.210 --> 00:42:11.280
I know you just think I'm a prisoner.
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:13.140
Listen to me really quick, the next seven years that follow,
00:42:13.140 --> 00:42:16.100
are gonna be a terrible famine.
00:42:16.100 --> 00:42:18.000
And the famine won't just hit Egypt.
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:19.250
It will hit all the surrounding territories around Egypt.
00:42:19.250 --> 00:42:23.240
So, Pharaoh, here's an idea.
00:42:23.240 --> 00:42:25.070
Maybe what you should do,
00:42:26.220 --> 00:42:27.290
is maybe you should take all of the crops
00:42:27.290 --> 00:42:29.170
and all the harvest for these first seven years,
00:42:29.170 --> 00:42:32.150
and maybe you should ration it out.
00:42:32.150 --> 00:42:34.110
Maybe you should steward it properly.
00:42:34.110 --> 00:42:36.200
That way, when the seven years of famine hits,
00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:39.060
not only will Egypt prosper as a nation,
00:42:39.060 --> 00:42:43.050
but Egypt will also position itself
00:42:43.050 --> 00:42:46.020
for an economic boom in the midst of a famine
00:42:46.020 --> 00:42:49.130
because every nation surrounding us
00:42:49.130 --> 00:42:51.260
will have to come to us in order to get food."
00:42:51.260 --> 00:42:55.070
Pharaoh's like, "where did we find this guy?"
00:42:56.230 --> 00:43:00.040
Joseph's like, "oh me?"
00:43:02.110 --> 00:43:03.160
"I've just been hanging out in your prison."
00:43:06.060 --> 00:43:08.120
"Where'd she come from?"
00:43:10.050 --> 00:43:11.230
Oh, she's been serving in ZOE Kids
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.140
for the last three seasons.
00:43:15.140 --> 00:43:17.100
"Whoa, who's this guy?"
00:43:18.130 --> 00:43:21.190
Yeah, dude, he leads a connect group.
00:43:21.190 --> 00:43:23.140
He's been doing so for two years, faithfully.
00:43:23.140 --> 00:43:26.190
"I've never seen somebody quite like him."
00:43:26.190 --> 00:43:29.020
Yeah, he's on the parking lot team.
00:43:29.020 --> 00:43:30.130
He's just there week in and week out.
00:43:30.130 --> 00:43:32.080
You can always rest assure that Sunday morning,
00:43:32.080 --> 00:43:34.080
even if it's raining, even if there's a marathon on,
00:43:34.080 --> 00:43:37.070
even if there's a big parade, he'll be there!
00:43:37.070 --> 00:43:39.220
(crowd applauding)
00:43:39.220 --> 00:43:42.250
"Look at that gift!"
00:43:42.250 --> 00:43:44.220
"Look at that anointing!"
00:43:44.220 --> 00:43:46.000
All the while they have no idea
00:43:46.260 --> 00:43:49.050
that your anointing was developed through a great breaking.
00:43:49.050 --> 00:43:52.280
That if you want more oil,
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:54.200
you have to be willing to go through a greater crushing.
00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:57.170
And a greater developing.
00:43:57.170 --> 00:43:59.120
(crowd applauding)
00:43:59.120 --> 00:44:02.120
That's Joseph.
00:44:07.220 --> 00:44:08.170
I'mma close.
00:44:08.170 --> 00:44:09.120
I got two more closes.
00:44:09.120 --> 00:44:10.100
I'm really gonna close it good.
00:44:10.100 --> 00:44:11.020
I promise you.
00:44:11.020 --> 00:44:12.000
So you could sit back down.
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:13.080
I'm done right now, Chad, I promise you.
00:44:13.080 --> 00:44:14.150
We gotta bring this thing full circle.
00:44:14.150 --> 00:44:15.170
I just sense it in my heart.
00:44:15.170 --> 00:44:16.290
Pharaoh's like, "hey, this dude, this dude, he's number two.
00:44:18.230 --> 00:44:23.230
It's me then it's him.
00:44:24.150 --> 00:44:26.220
You understand?
00:44:26.220 --> 00:44:27.170
Me, him.
00:44:27.170 --> 00:44:28.170
Whatever he says, you do."
00:44:28.170 --> 00:44:30.280
Think about how absurd and how crazy this is.
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:35.000
The Scripture says that Joseph was 30 years of age
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.250
when he came to work for Pharaoh.
00:44:37.250 --> 00:44:40.020
Meaning he got a dream at 17.
00:44:40.020 --> 00:44:42.280
It wasn't until 13 years later that that dream even on paper
00:44:44.120 --> 00:44:48.110
look like it was coming to pass.
00:44:48.110 --> 00:44:50.140
What you discover about Joseph's life
00:44:50.140 --> 00:44:52.050
is that seven year of harvest happens.
00:44:52.050 --> 00:44:54.060
He's now 37 years of age.
00:44:54.060 --> 00:44:56.250
But then three to four years into the famine,
00:44:56.250 --> 00:44:58.210
he's now 40, 41 years of age.
00:44:58.210 --> 00:45:01.220
Not only is Egypt going through a famine,
00:45:01.220 --> 00:45:04.050
but even his brothers who sold him into slavery
00:45:04.050 --> 00:45:07.080
they're in a famine.
00:45:07.080 --> 00:45:08.150
To the point that there father, Israel, says,
00:45:08.150 --> 00:45:10.210
"you gotta go to Egypt and you gotta bow down
00:45:10.210 --> 00:45:13.220
in front of who ever is in charge.
00:45:13.220 --> 00:45:15.180
So that can make sure that we can eat.
00:45:15.180 --> 00:45:17.210
And at 42 years of age, not a bad year, not a bad few weeks,
00:45:17.210 --> 00:45:22.210
I'm talking about tough decade.
00:45:23.170 --> 00:45:24.240
All of a sudden, his brothers come.
00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:27.070
And they bow before Joseph.
00:45:27.070 --> 00:45:29.190
And they beg for mercy.
00:45:30.150 --> 00:45:31.230
It was a dream that was fulfilled
00:45:31.230 --> 00:45:35.160
but it took 20 plus years for it to happen.
00:45:35.160 --> 00:45:38.160
Your dream is gonna happen.
00:45:40.290 --> 00:45:43.270
If you don't quit you are gonna win church planter.
00:45:45.110 --> 00:45:48.240
- [Crowd] Yeah!
00:45:48.240 --> 00:45:50.010
- We gotta get our confidence back.
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We gotta get our stamina back.
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We gotta get our endurance back.
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You gotta get off the iPhone.
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You gotta realize that God,
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He doesn't have an iPhone dream for your life,
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no, He's developing a beautiful picture.
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Your story.
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And you don't want this dream to arrive prematurely.
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And the reason why I can't close,
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is because that would be a really beautiful message,
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if we just close right there,
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because it is a good story and it should be preached.
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But it's just not what I do.
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I just don't preach motivation, self-help talks.
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I don't preach go outta here and look like Joseph.
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Because if you got outta here
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and you try to look like Joseph,
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you will fail and fail miserably.
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For Joseph was just a man no better than you.
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(man in crowd yells)
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But when you read this book, when you read this Bible,
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you don't look for principles.
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You look for a person.
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And that person's name is Jesus Christ.
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And He's on every page and He's on every verse.
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(crowd applauding)
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For this is not a story of Joseph.
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- [Man In The Crowd] Yeah.
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- No, Jesus.
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He is the true and better Joseph.
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And like Joseph,
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Jesus, he too, walked through a test of isolation.
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For He found Himself alone in the garden
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praying all by Himself,
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"Father, if it's possible let this cup pass from me.
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But Father, not My will, but Your will be done.
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I want Your will over My will.
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I want Your wants over my wants."
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And them Jesus cries, like Joseph,
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He went in the greatest test of isolation
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as He was hung on a tree.
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They stretched Him wide and they hung Him high.
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And there in that moment,
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the greatest test of isolation took place.
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As the Father in heaven, turned His back on Jesus.
00:47:38.240 --> 00:47:41.240
And Jesus from that tree, dying for you, dying for me,
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He declared, "Father, why have You forsaken Me?"
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And Jesus, taken off that tree,
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they thought it was over.
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They thought it was finished.
00:47:57.070 --> 00:47:59.150
They thought it was all done.
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They put Him in a grave.
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And they rolled the stone over the tomb.
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Yet, what nobody understood,
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was that the tomb was the womb.
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That Jesus, like a seed, was planted into the ground.
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And yes, He had to go and be alone for a moment.
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But our God He journeyed to the bellies of the earth.
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He took the keys of hell.
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He conquered death, hell, and the grave.
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And three days later, He resurrected from the grave.
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His isolation, led to the greatest elevation of all time.
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That tonight and today, you can stand freely,
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with arms towards heaven.
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And you can declare and you can proclaim
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that the same power
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that conquered death, hell, and the grave,
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it lives inside of me!
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It lives inside of you!
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We, too, can resurrect!
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We, too, can grow!
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We, too, can flourish!
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Come on, ZOE Conference!
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If you believe it today, you've got a shout of praise.
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Come on!
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(crowds cheering)
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Your mercy Come on and worship!
00:49:10.100 --> 00:49:14.090
Triumphs over judgment He's not done with you yet!
00:49:14.090 --> 00:49:19.080
You've come too far!
00:49:20.010 --> 00:49:21.170
Love wider than horizons
00:49:21.170 --> 00:49:26.140
Stronger than all sin
00:49:28.070 --> 00:49:30.260
Come on, we're singing about Jesus!
00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:32.120
He's with you.
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.140
Lord of kindness He's for you.
00:49:35.140 --> 00:49:39.130
Leads us to repentance
00:49:42.100 --> 00:49:47.100
To the heart of God
00:49:48.220 --> 00:49:53.220
Your heart oh God
00:49:55.180 --> 00:50:00.180
Is all I want
00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:05.200
Thank you, Jesus.
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Jesus, He's the true and better Joseph.
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He sits at the right hand of the King.
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And instead of cursing you, He blesses you.
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Like Joseph, He doesn't throw his brothers
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into the prison for what they deserved.
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Instead, He gives them a new identity.
00:50:25.210 --> 00:50:28.180
Instead, He gives them a new position.
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Instead, He says, "My inheritance is your inheritance."
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It's called incubation through isolation.
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Today, you're in a season.
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Keep walking.
00:50:44.150 --> 00:50:45.150
Don't give up.
00:50:46.160 --> 00:50:47.110
You are so necessary.
00:50:47.110 --> 00:50:50.080
The only thing I hate about these conferences,
00:50:52.080 --> 00:50:53.250
is that we come to these conferences,
00:50:53.250 --> 00:50:55.020
and we sit there and we go,
00:50:55.020 --> 00:50:56.000
"I have to be like John Gray."
00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.260
"I have dress like Chad Veach."
00:50:57.260 --> 00:51:00.100
"I have to be as eloquent as Julie."
00:51:00.100 --> 00:51:02.110
And you don't!
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It's a lie!
00:51:04.150 --> 00:51:06.040
In the middle of what God is doing
00:51:06.040 --> 00:51:07.270
the enemy creeps in your ear.
00:51:07.270 --> 00:51:10.250
And as we start to compare ourselves, we start to give up.
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Pour here today to remind one another
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God's got a call on your life.
00:51:17.030 --> 00:51:19.000
There's a grace on your life.
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Keep walking.
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Don't stop now!
00:51:22.070 --> 00:51:24.060
(crowd cheering)
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You're closer than you think!
00:51:25.050 --> 00:51:25.260
And regardless of what your setting looks like,
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regardless of what your situation looks like,
00:51:30.250 --> 00:51:33.060
don't let it stop you from discovering the invitation.
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That you can grow and you can develop.
00:51:37.010 --> 00:51:38.290
Don't let it take away your spirit.
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The right spirit trumps all of it.
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I can't choose my storm.
00:51:46.020 --> 00:51:47.280
I can always choose my spirit.
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:50.100
I can't dictate what happens to me.
00:51:50.100 --> 00:51:52.200
But I can always choose
00:51:52.200 --> 00:51:53.280
how I'll respond to what happens to me.
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(crowd applauding)
00:51:55.270 --> 00:51:57.040
You're not taking away my invitation.
00:51:57.040 --> 00:51:58.060
I got an invitation to grow.
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And what I've seen over and over again
00:52:01.250 --> 00:52:03.190
is that isolation often leads to your elevation.
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If you feel like you're isolated today,
00:52:10.200 --> 00:52:12.270
hang in there.
00:52:12.270 --> 00:52:13.230
I sense a promotion coming.
00:52:15.050 --> 00:52:16.100
I sense an elevation coming.
00:52:16.100 --> 00:52:18.060
Not for your glory
00:52:18.060 --> 00:52:20.070
but for His glory
00:52:20.070 --> 00:52:21.220
(crowd cheers)
00:52:21.220 --> 00:52:24.280
(crowd applauds)
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:26.210
If you're here in this room today,
00:52:26.210 --> 00:52:27.160
before Chad comes up,
00:52:27.160 --> 00:52:28.230
you're saying, "Rich, you're preaching to me,
00:52:28.230 --> 00:52:30.180
That's my story right now.
00:52:30.180 --> 00:52:31.260
That's the season I find myself in."
00:52:31.260 --> 00:52:33.100
Why don't you put both your hands towards heaven.
00:52:33.100 --> 00:52:35.130
'Cause I'mma pray a prayer over you.
00:52:35.130 --> 00:52:37.050
And this team's gonna sing this song.
00:52:37.050 --> 00:52:39.010
And I believe as we start to sing,
00:52:40.090 --> 00:52:41.170
that the atmosphere's gonna change.
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And something's gonna change on the inside of us.
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God, I pray for my friends
00:52:45.250 --> 00:52:47.210
that are lifting their hands in this room.
00:52:47.210 --> 00:52:50.070
God today, it's a sign of surrender.
00:52:50.070 --> 00:52:53.050
God today, Lord, we don't want the spirit of Joseph,
00:52:53.050 --> 00:52:56.110
we want the Spirit of Jesus.
00:52:56.110 --> 00:52:58.200
God today, Lord, we know, on our own, we can't do it.
00:52:58.200 --> 00:53:02.030
But God we believe today,
00:53:03.060 --> 00:53:04.210
that's it's not by might, nor by power, but by Your Spirit
00:53:04.210 --> 00:53:07.040
that all things could be accomplished.
00:53:08.120 --> 00:53:10.120
Today, Lord, as our hands are lifted up,
00:53:10.120 --> 00:53:11.210
I pray for my brothers and my sisters
00:53:11.210 --> 00:53:13.220
that You would encourage them, right now,
00:53:13.220 --> 00:53:16.010
in the midst of their story.
00:53:16.010 --> 00:53:18.050
That God, You're telling Your story.
00:53:18.050 --> 00:53:20.030
You gotta big story going on.
00:53:20.030 --> 00:53:22.050
But I pray that we wouldn't give up because of one scene.
00:53:22.050 --> 00:53:25.050
Today, Lord, lift people's heads.
00:53:25.050 --> 00:53:27.060
Encourage people's spirits.
00:53:27.060 --> 00:53:29.020
And God, today, we declare
00:53:29.020 --> 00:53:30.170
that the best truly is yet to come.
00:53:30.170 --> 00:53:34.170
Come on, if you believe it,
00:53:34.170 --> 00:53:35.240
go ahead and give God some praise.
00:53:35.240 --> 00:53:37.120
(crowd cheers)
00:53:38.170 --> 00:53:41.040
Your mercy
00:53:43.190 --> 00:53:48.190
Triumphs over judgment
00:53:49.160 --> 00:53:53.260
Love wider than horizons
00:53:55.210 --> 00:54:00.230
Stronger than all sin
00:54:02.230 --> 00:54:07.230
Lord Your kindness
00:54:09.270 --> 00:54:14.270
Leads us to repentance
00:54:16.260 --> 00:54:21.260
To the heart of God
00:54:23.080 --> 00:54:28.060
Your heart oh God
00:54:29.290 --> 00:54:34.240
Oh
00:54:34.240 --> 00:54:38.190
Your mercy
00:54:38.190 --> 00:54:43.180
Triumphs over judgment
00:54:43.180 --> 00:54:48.180
Love wider than horizons
00:54:50.160 --> 00:54:55.160
Stronger than all sin
00:54:57.240 --> 00:55:02.260
Lord Your kindness
00:55:04.120 --> 00:55:09.120
Leads us to repentance
00:55:11.290 --> 00:55:16.290
To the heart of God
00:55:18.120 --> 00:55:23.120
Your heart oh God
00:55:25.050 --> 00:55:30.030
Is all I want
00:55:32.150 --> 00:55:35.050
- Well, hey.
00:55:44.110 --> 00:55:45.270
Thanks so much for joining us here at ZOE Conference.
00:55:45.270 --> 00:55:47.290
You just listened, to an unbelievable message
00:55:47.290 --> 00:55:50.180
by Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. from Miami.
00:55:50.180 --> 00:55:53.240
And what a thought.
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What a Word.
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I really believe for so many people
00:55:57.050 --> 00:55:59.100
that's exactly what we needed to hear.
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And as you're tuning in, let's just believe,
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:03.220
that everything God was saying, that was for us.
00:56:03.220 --> 00:56:07.020
That was a Word in season for our lives.
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Thanks again for joining us.
00:56:09.150 --> 00:56:10.280
Love you so much.
00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:11.270
And I hope to see you soon.
00:56:11.270 --> 00:56:12.270

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