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I stand corrected. Never talk about
an accordion that the pastor's wife mom played.

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Note to self, it has been
so fun to be with you guys.

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We had a great weekend. Wow, Tony Kim, good grief.

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What a reformer and a raiser of
reformers. Steve Backland. He's just like

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a carpet bomber. He comes in
and just you know, every time he

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starts talking, I just know something
is in my Arsenal's going to die.

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He just does such a great job
of challenging our mindsets and thank God,

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did some wonderful things. I'm not
Brian Simmons. I have read his books.

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Brian is a friend and we're in
the same revival group for Bethel Revival

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groups down in Florida. I want
you to pray for him, if you

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would. This illness he's been fighting
for six weeks or better. It's s

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gootten crazy. He lost his hearing
and nobody kind of knows why in the

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midst of all of this. So
if you would, over the coming days,

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would you pray for Brian and ask
God to word declaring his complete restoration

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and healing. And I you know, I have this vision whenever the enemy

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does something like that. My friend
Robbie Dawkins says for everyone he takes,

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I get three. And that's kind
of how I feel about this. I

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believe that Brian's going to come out
of this with some things he heard when

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he couldn't hear. That's going to
go right back on the enemy's head.

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So if you guys would pray for
him and then buy all his books on

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the way out, that'd be a
blessing to him. But hopefully he'll get

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back next time. But I was
so on on Wednesday when I got a

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call my dear friend Michael Proctors.
Michael still here. I talked to him

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there he is, is Penny with
you? No? I want to give

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you a word and you can take
it home to Penny if you would.

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Would you stand up? I heard
this over you and Penny during worship.

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This is from Isaiah fifty eight.
I believe God is doing a Simian and

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Anna thing in the church today where
older men and women who have believed for

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a long time and something God was
going to do that you're going to see

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them reignited. And the enemy thinks
he's put us out to pasture. All

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we've been doing is feeding and getting
our strength back. Michael, this is

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what I heard over you in Penny. The Lord will guide you always.

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He will satisfy your needs in a
sun scorched land and will strengthen your frame.

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You will be like a well watered
garden, like a spring whose waters

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never fail. Your people will rebuild
the ancient ruins and will raise up the

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age old foundations. And here's what
I heard directly for you in Penny.

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You will be repairer of broken walls, restorer of streets with dwellings. I

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believe that God has a fresh new
thing that He's going to release for you

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guys in the coming season, and
it'll be a season where the two of

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you are called and released by God
to restore and repair. You're going to

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be reaching into young, younger people's
lives who have been broken, especially those

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in ministry who've been crushed by ministry. You're going to reach in and restore

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for them, repair for them to
be restored. You're gonna be repair for

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them to be restored. And there
will be in a generation to come ministers

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who affect and impact the generation because
you went and repaired so they could restore.

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So, Father, I pray over
this power couple. I pray over

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them that you would release them and
bring them in contact with the broken ones.

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They're hurting ones, the ones who
were targets, targets in the battle

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and the enemy took them out,
Repair and restore in Jesus's name. Amen.

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Amen, Wow, Wow, wow
wow. I want to speak to

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you as a church from it before
you jump into the word. Biggest danger

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in being part of a prophetic community
is that you will get used to it.

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A church that carries the anointing of
worship that yours does, you'll get

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used to it. A church that
brings freedom and deliverance. The danger is

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you'll get used to it and you'll
start taking it for granted. You need

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to know what you have here.
You need to understand this is a deep

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well and God is bringing people and
He will continue to bring people pastors that

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desperately need the water of life from
this well. They can't go other places

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because they haven't dug deep enough.
They haven't done deep enough for the water

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of life that these hungry people need. So please search, Honor the house,

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Honor the work that God has done
here, Honor the fact that this

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isn't normal. This doesn't exist everywhere. What happens up here, that's not

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everywhere. And you need to come
in and cherish what God is doing because

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as you honor what he does,
he will do what you have not even

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seen. My pastor's son, Josh, he's our worship pastor, incredible man

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of God. He has this passion
and he and my middle son Caleb,

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who are really close, came to
us and said to me and Roger,

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because we were involved in this revival
in the nineties. My son looked at

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me, he said, Dad,
when am I going to get my revival?

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When is our generation going to receive
our move of God? We love

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hearing about yours, but we want
ours. And Josh started. He started

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documenting the move of God in our
county because back in the nineties we didn't

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all have all this stuff. You
know. I came into my church the

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first Friday of Renewal in nineteen ninety
five. We seated a thousand. You

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couldn't even get in the aisles.
Our fellowship hal was full. We didn't

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have cameras and that kind of stuff. We hung a sheet on the front

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of the building and I had one
of those big ol' honking projectors out there

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and you could barely see, and
there were people out the hundreds of people

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outside of the church watching on this
thing with a couple of speakers stuck up

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there because that's all we had.
So there was no documentation that went on

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of this move of God that lasted
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Josh came to me, he said, I want to document this. He

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said, I want to go back
and I want to interview people. And

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so over the last couple of months
we've been interviewing leaders who were there,

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and for me, it's been reliving
moments of indescribable supernatural move of God that

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after a while you kind of forget
how amazing God was in those days.

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But Josh came to me and he
said, the reason I want to do

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this is I want to honor the
move of God in your generation so that

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we can receive the move of God
for our generation. You see, it's

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not enough for one generation to tell
the next about what God did. We

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need to be telling them about what
God will do for them. Every revival

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is an Ebenezer. It's where God
did something and we stand a stone of

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testimony there and we say hitherto has
the Lord helped us. God brought us

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this far. But every generation needs
its own ebeneze or its own testimony that

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God did what no one could have
done. I want to see a move

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of God from my children and my
grandchildren. I want to see stuff happen

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that can only be blamed on God. I was raised in Portland and Boise,

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so I have a heart for the
Pacific Northwest. But there is a

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move of God in the heart of
God for this region. You know that,

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and you haven't seen it yet.
What you've seen is amazing. What

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you haven't seen will take your breath
away. If God can prophesy to us

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that the desired of venations will come, Heck, the desired of the Pacific

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Northwest is nothing for him. I
want to challenge you church, believe for

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your region. We meet together as
pastors in our area. There's all thirty

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thirty five pastors that meet every week
for prayer cross lines. Because what we

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saw God do in our region in
the mid nineties was a down payment of

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what He wants to do. See. What God does sometimes is he comes

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for visitation to see if you will
welcome him for habitation. I believe God

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has come here in this house for
visitation that he has question for you?

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Do you really want habitation? Do
you want him to be here where he

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sets down and throned on your praises? What does that mean? He runs

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it, he's the one on the
throne. Do you want visitation or do

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you want habitation? There's some challenges
with that. See, pastors, if

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you came to my house for visitation, there's a lot of stuff I just

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shove in the closets, you know
what I mean. We'd make it look

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good in the spaces you were going
to visit in. But if you're going

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to move in, I can't shove
all the junk in the closet. I

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gotta clean it out. Sometimes when
he comes for visitation, we hide everything

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in the back room. But when
he moves in. Here's the worst thing

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about it. He doesn't even give
you a choice. He just says,

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get out my way. I'm gonna
clean it up myself, because if I'm

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gonna live here, we're not gonna
have a mess. So there's some challenges

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with habitation. But oh the rewards. We were in a pastor's meeting.

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There are about five or six of
us that have been there each of us

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well over thirty almost forty years in
our community. And my dear friend him

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Franklin, pastors the Trees pastored the
same church for thirty eight years through that

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whole season of revival. He is
involved in leadership. When the wave ebbed,

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he and my pastor Roger, they
they said, no, no,

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no, no, this isn't this
isn't going to happen. And they have

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contended for revival for thirty years.
And he began to weep in our meeting

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and he said, the only reason
I stayed in this county is because of

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what God has spoken over it.
And it hit me, you know when

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when I'm sorry, I'm not preaching
yet. You'll have to wait for that.

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When when when Joel prophesied about revival
that came on the day of Pentecost,

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and he said, I'll pour my
spirit out on all flesh. You

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talked about your young ones prophesying your
sons and daughters. I love what I

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saw over there this morning. But
he said this, your young men will

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see visions, your old men will
dream dreams. I was thinking about that

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one day and I thought that sounds
backwards, because you see a vision is

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something that hasn't happened yet, but
you know that it will. So you're

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right on the edge of the fulfillment
of a vision. You would think the

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old guys like us would get the
visions because we ain't got a whole lot

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of time to see it get done, and the young men they would get

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the dreams because the dreams are bigger, and they overarch, and they last

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longer. They take longer to get
there. But you know what he was

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saying. He's saying, I want
the old men to dream dreams that will

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outlast them by generations, so the
young men can and feed the vision and

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get it accomplished generation by generation.
That's why I believe we've got to Simon

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and anything that's gonna happen. And
I want to be one of them.

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I'm an old man who wants to
dream dreams. I want to have the

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Benjamin button anointing older I get the
younger I am. I don't talk like

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this everywhere I go, but I
don't sense this everywhere I go. It's

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kind of like this. When I
walked into the building, I went like

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this. I've smelled revival before,
and I smell it in this house.

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Shut that head back I'll say one
more thing and then I'll try to preach

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in ten minutes. I'm not gonna
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preach into it. First Friday of
January nineteen ninety five, Randy Clark had

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been there at our church. It
was housed in our building because we had

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more seats than anybody. But it
was a regional thing, and we had

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a regional leadership that worked with him
in this revival. And God was moving.

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We were seeing miracles and signs and
wonders. And he went down to

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do an interview in Vero Beach at
a radio station, and God moved while

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he was at the radio station,
and a church in Vero Beach that housed

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that radio station filled up with people
who heard on the radio God was moving,

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and they showed up at the church, which wasn't even part of the

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renewal. In fact, the pastor
was fishing that day. We got called

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down there to help them pray for
people because they didn't even know what to

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do. And for an entire day, God moved in a place that hadn't

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even been asking him to come.
We went down to do this interview with

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Josh to record. I was there
that day with Randy, one of the

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pastors that was there, wasn't involved
in renewal, but he came and God

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used him, and he said this
that day changed every day since that day.

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And he wept thirty years later saying
how that day changed his relationship with

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his wife, with his children,
with his ministry. It changed everything one

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day. I want to tell you, my friends, it is illegal for

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us to ever get like this and
not believe this could be that one day

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that changes every day that comes after
it. When you come to this house,

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come with that faith. This could
be the day, this could be

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the It's what Simeon did every day
of his life. He went to the

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temple looking for the baby, and
then one day, just one day,

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he put his arms in it and
looked up to the father and said,

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this is it. He is here. M turn in your bibles to Mark

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chapter two. I'm gonna try to
talk to you for a minute. What

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we're talking about here, as I'm
sharing my heart with you, is you

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as a church are on the edge. You break through. I can see

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it, I can feel it.
You can feel the enemy flexing against you.

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It's the reason your worship leaders struggling
with her voice right now. There's

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a reason that happens, because as
you press to new places, he resists.

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And the one thing he doesn't want
to happen is new horizon to have

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breakthrough from the pressure the place that
you're at right now, because what's on

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the other side will shift the atmosphere
of this city and in fact this region.

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So he's going to oppose it.
He's going to push back. That's

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what he does. I want to
talk to you for just a minute about

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the cost of breakthrough, Mark chapter
two. Let me read it to you

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real quick. First twelve verses,
Mark two. A few days later,

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when Jesus again entered Pernium, the
people heard that he had come home,

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so many gathered that there was no
room left. God give us that problem,

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not even outside the door, and
he preached the word to them.

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Some men came bringing to him a
paralytic carried by four of them. Since

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they could not Since they could not
get him to Jesus because of the crowd,

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they made an opening in the roof
above Jesus, and after digging through

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it lowered the mat the paralyzed man
was lying on. And when Jesus saw

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their faith, he said to the
paralytics on your sins are forgiven. Now,

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some teachers of the law were sitting
there, thinking to themselves, why

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does this fellow talk like that.
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Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that
this is what they were thinking in

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their hearts, and he said to
them, why are you thinking these things?

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Which is easier to say to the
paralytic, your sins are forgiven,

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or to say, get up,
take up your mat, and walk,

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But that you may know that the
Son of Man has authority on earth to

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forgive sins. He said to the
paralytic, I tell you, get up,

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take your mat, and go home. And he got up and took

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his mat and walked out in full
view of them all. And this amazed

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everyone, and they praised God,
saying, we have never seen anything like

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this. There's a scripture in Psalm
thirty four, verse three. It says

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this, Oh, magnify the Lord
with me. That's the most oxymoronic phrase

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I've ever read. How do you
magnify something that's already larger than everything in

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the universe. The only way to
make God bigger is to see God bigger

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In other words, you have to
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You have to watch him do things
he's never done before. He's magnified

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when he becomes the largest thing in
the field of your vision. And in

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order for Christ to be seen as
he's never been seen and do things he's

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never done, there has to come
a breakthrough from the farthest place we've ever

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been with him. Every one of
us has a border, a boundary that

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we've reached with God, and we've
seen him do that. But there's something

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on the other side of that,
and the question is do you want to

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see that? Do you want to
see that? So you're pressing up against

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the extremities of what you've known of
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there because he knows every time there
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every time you get a breakthrough,
it dominoes to other people and they get

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breakthrough. And if you get enough
breakthroughs happening for individuals in a body,

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the body gets the breakthrough. You
get enough bodies getting breakthroughs, and the

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region gets a breakthrough. And some
people say well, my breakthrough really doesn't

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matter. Yours might be the one
that knocks over that domino and starts the

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whole process. So the question is
do you really want to break through?

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I was praying about this because I'm
at a place in my life where i

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want it so bad I can taste
it. And the Lord asked me a

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question. He said, what are
you willing to wreck to see your breakthrough?

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And he drove me back to this
familiar story. You see, sometimes

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when we're up against that pressure of
resistance and we're not getting the breakthrough,

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it's because we won't honestly deal with
what's in the way. These guys love

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this friend of theirs, and they
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That's the first step in church breakthrough
is when we get sick and tired

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of seeing the brokenness of the world
unchecked in people's lives. So they made

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a bed and they laid him in
it, and four of them grabbed it

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and said, we're going to get
you to Jesus. I bet that was

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quite a journey. They probably talked
about all the things they'd heard about Jesus

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and what he had done, and
they were building the guy's face, and

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they may have joked with him and
said on the way home, you can't

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your own bed. But then they
got there and it says they couldn't get

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him near Jesus because there's too many
people. So as they stand there,

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they see the people problem, and
the people problem is standing between them and

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breakthrough. So what do they do. I've always gotten real realistic. I

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have a big imagination about these stories
in the Bible. These four guys are

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standing there, They're looking at the
crowd. There's no way in. They

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can't see it. Which one of
these idiots goes, I got a plan.

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Let's raise the roof. Somebody had
to have enough vision to say this

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may not work, but we're going
to find a way to get what matters

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to us in the presence of Jesus. And so they get up and tear

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the roof off somebody's house. We
say that like, it's no big deal.

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You let me come over there to
your house with a skills saw and

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start chopping on your roof roof and
we'll find out. Right we I have

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this great vision of Jesus in there
teaching who knows what he's teaching about the

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words of the kingdom or coming out
of it. He's got a whole front

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row of the religion, is sitting
there trying to pick it apart, but

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all the hungry people behind him are
listening, and all of a sudden,

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Hey starts raining down in front of
him. And they kept digging. Brian

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Simmons translates it until they broke through. They kept digging and digging and digging

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until they created an open heaven,
an unwanted skylight in that house right above

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Jesus. And they lowered the man
down. And he's sitting there on the

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ground in front of Jesus, and
everybody in the room is asking, what's

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he going to do now? I
would imagine everybody had an idea that he

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would do something like this because he'd
done it before. Son, get up,

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take up your bed, and walk. But that's not what he said.

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He said, son, your sins
are forgiven. See his friends had

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brought him for his broken legs,
but Jesus was more interested in his broken

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life. He said, what good
is it if you get up and walk

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out of here with the same broken
heart you had when you came in.

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Who cares if your legs work?
Sometimes we at the church we've tried to

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get people's legs fixed, and we
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So we make it friendly, and
we lead them in a little prayer

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and we promise them they're going to
get to heaven, and the world around

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us remains unchanged when what Jesus wants
to do is heal people's lives. So

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when they walk out of the room, it's in front of everybody, and

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all the people around them say,
well, we've never seen anything like that

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before. You see breakthrough demands that
somebody is willing to wreck the roof to

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get their friends free, wreck the
roof to get what's important to them right

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up in front of Jesus. And
sometimes in the church, we've been too

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worried about the roof. You know, somebody gonna have to fix it when

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we leave. We don't want to
make too big a mess go. We're

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gonna have to clean it up over
the day, and we don't care how

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big the mess is. We just
want to hear Jesus say your sins are

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forgiven. So the boys drop him
down in front of Jesus. Jesus deals

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with the religionous resistance, heals the
man's legs, that he gets up and

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he walks out. I love the
end of that chapter where it says he

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walked out in full view of everyone. Why because the testimony of Jesus is

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the spirit of prophecy. And as
he walked out, everybody that knew anybody

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with broken legs start going it wait
wait, wait, wait wait wait.

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Maybe this Jesus can help them to
The more public the testimony, the more

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powerful the fire it starts. And
it says that all of them looked at

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each other and said, we'd never
seen anything like that. Pastoral along for

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the day when people get up from
our church services and walk out the door,

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and that's the testimony. We've never
seen anything like that. Are we

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hungry enough to see God move in
such a way that when people encounter what

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happens in this house, all they
can say is, we've never seen anything

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like that. We've never seen people
get up at a wheelchairs and walk.

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We've never seen blind eyes open,
we've never seen deaf ears unstopped. But

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we've seen it. Now, what
about shun it? About that? I'm

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a Coosa. I'm willing to raise
the roof to hear the people of my

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city say we've never seen anything like
that before. So my question is to

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you, what are you willing to
do? What are you willing to wreck

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for breakthrough? Two years ago this
month, I preached Sunday morning at Bethel

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Church, first time in twenty five
years. It's a long story, and

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I could tell you why it's such
a miracle that that happened. But my

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pastor and Tim Franklin that I told
you about, they went with us and

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their wives and my son Caleb.
He's thirty nine years old almost. He

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was just a kid thirty years ago
when God moved in our city, so

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they didn't really get to experience all
of it as little kid. He remembers

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going to church a lot and seeing
stuff happen all around him, but he

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felt like he's too young to really
absorb it. So he and Lily went

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with us to Bethel and we were
there at Randy's conference the week before I

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preached, and my poor son just
got fried, I mean wrecked. Holy

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Spirit got all over him, got
drunk one night, we had to drive

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him home, got one night,
got electrocuted. You ever see anybody get

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electrocuted? I mean like that for
an hour. Well, at Bethel,

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if you get the Holy Ghost on
you. Even if your eyes are fluttering,

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you better watch out because they're on
you like ugly on an eight.

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I mean they jump on you,
pray for you, and I mean there

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was a lot of them just crawled
up on top of him. Looked like

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a dog pile, and he got
absolutely undone by the Holy Spirit. Now,

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Caleb, you need to understand he
not only is the guy that had

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all the ducks in a row,
he knew their names, how old they

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were. I mean, he was
like that since he was a little boy,

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always eminently successful, graduated high school
early with a four point whatever gpa,

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and went to university, and he
got so many scholarships he got paid

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to go to school. He was
managing a restaurant while he was in college.

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At nineteen years old, became a
very young manager of Whole Foods and

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earth Fare and wound up at managing
a big old super target and just climbing

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the ladder, you know. But
he came back, He came back from

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that trip realizing that's not what he
wanted to do with his life, and

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it's not what God wanted him to
do. That doesn't mean it's not for

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everybody, but for him something was
different. So he came to me a

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few months later. He sat down
with me and he said, Dad,

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I don't believe I'm supposed to do
this the rest of my life. And

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he said, uh. He said, I think I'm gonna make a change,

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so we're gonna do so. I'm
ea quit my job. I'm gonna

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sell my house on the golf course. I'm gonna buy a forty four foot

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trailer RV and I'm gonna live in
it. And I'm gonna go chase the

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dream God's put in my heart.
And I said to him, as Lilia

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on board said she's pushing, We're
going for it. And then he looked

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at me with tears and he said, Dad, do you think I'm crazy?

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And I said to him, Son, I'm not worried about you being

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crazy. I'm worried about you getting
to my age and looking back and wish

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you to done it. Go chase
his dream for you, son, Go

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chase it. Sell whatever you have
to sell, living whatever you have to

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live in. Chase his dream.
And when he exercised his faith like that,

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it not only radically changed his life. My older son, who had

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been running for God for twenty three
years, He grabbed him by the throat

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and drug him back into the Kingdom, the domino effect. A couple of

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months ago, they started a business
together, chasing the dream. What's it

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worth to you? What are you
willing to wreck to see God move?

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What are you willing to change to
get visitation to become habitation? What are

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you willing to sacrifice and lay aside? What roof are you willing to tear

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off to get an open heaven and
get what you love before Him who loves

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it more than you do. I
want to challenge Church. You're at a

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point. Can feel it. I
can sense it. You can. You

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can feel the stretching, You can
feel the tension of the enemy pressing back

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against you. You are at a
place a breakthrough. I just came here

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this morning to tell you tear off
the roof, wreck the roof, and

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then go make a bunch of beds
and go get them folks, and drag

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them in here before Jesus. I
want the worship team to come back.

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I want to pray for some of
you as individuals. You're sat here and

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you've listened to me ramble on,
and you realize that in your life something

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started making sense this morning. Some
of that resistance, some of that stuff

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you've been up against, started making
sense as we talked here today. Because

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you're pressing for breakthrough. I want
to challenge you, press on, push,

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push. It isn't about earning it. It's about positioning and posturing yourself

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so that God can be to you
what he's never been before. You will

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see things you've never seen before,
and people will look at your life and

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what God is doing and say,
I have never seen anything like that before.

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To stand with me, Ministry team, would you come down real quickly.

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I want to pray for some people
this morning that this particularly has resonated

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with you. You know you're in
a position or you're pressing up for breakthrough

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in your life. It could be
radical changes like my son. It could

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be spiritual breakthrough. It could be
familiar breakthrough. It could be breakthrough in

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some part of your job or your
work. But you know you're pressing up

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against it. You can feel the
tension. I want you to get prayer

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this morning. I want you to
have somebody agree with you that God will

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give you the courage, the desire, the strength and the passion to keep

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pushing, keep pushing until it breaks. Papa, I asked by your Holy

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Spirit you fill this house with the
passion of your heart right now. Lord,

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I know this church has fought hard
to get a portal and open heaven,

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and we sense what you're doing,
the God. What you've done that

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we sang about. What you're doing
is only indicative of what you want to

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do that we haven't even dreamed about. Yet. You are the God who's

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able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we've asked you to do and all

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that we've imagined. Lord, I
pray for those who stand at a point

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of breakthrough in their life. Give
them the courage this morning to make one

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more push, one more push Jesus'
name. If that has resonated with you,

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I want to ask you to come. Let somebody pray with you.

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We're going to worship, and I
just want you to allow the Holy Spirit

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to bring you to that place where
breakthrough is yours. Come, Holy Spirit,

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Calm, Holy Spirit. There's a
breakthrough, Yeah, breakthrough, break

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through. God. We ask you
to release a breakthrough anointing right now.

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We heard about it earlier, the
breaker anointing, breakthrough, breakthrough. There

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is nothing like your nothing like I. I just want to be with you,

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and some of you have to leave, that's fine, feel free to

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do so. Like your st ime
only spirit, come, Holy Spirit.

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I just want to be away.
I just want to be long. There

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is nothing like yours. Receive,
just receive. Your only job right now

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is to receive it. Father,
expand our capacity to receive this money spand

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our capacity to receive. I just
want to be away, just want to

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be with you. I just want
to be your Just want to be with

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is nothing like your like O,
there is nothing like you who keep saying

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I don't just wanta be I just
want to be waring you. But I

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just wanna be here you. There
is nothing like your Lord,