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Hey, hey, hey, I'm
bad with something for you to think about.

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I want to talk about temptation again. I think this will be the

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third time that I did an episode
on temptation. What I want you to

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truly, truly, truly understand is
it is not the temptation. It's you.

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Let me say it again. It
is not the temptation. It is

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you. Now I'm here talking to
you as a living witness. It is

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not the temptation, it is you. When you are fixated and focused on

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God, the Father which is in
Heaven and Jesus. I don't care what

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that temptation is, you will not
succumb to it. That is why it

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is crucial detrimental. It is a
life or death decision to choose Jesus to

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follow God. Because when you really, really, really, really for certainty

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on that path of righteousness, temptation
can come to your left, to your

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right, in front of you,
behind you. You will not fall for

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it. You will not. You
won't because for one thing, you know

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the world is not your home,
and you also don't have your eyes on

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the world worldly things. I mean, let me tell you, there is

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only a few of us out of
the millions and millions and millions of people.

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There is only a few of us
that's really, really, really who

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they say they are in Christ.
I hope you're one, But I'm telling

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you that it is not the temptation. It is you. Where is your

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heart? Where is your mind?
Who have you chosen to serve? When

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your focus is Jesus? Your life
is never the same. You don't think

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the same, you don't walk or
talk the same, you don't even dress

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the same. And I know I've
said it before, but I just want

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to reiterate it. You are not
the same. Because you begin to be

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that new creature that God come.
That's who you begaring to be that new

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creature. All old ways fall away. You don't have the desires and the

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wants that you once had. Some
people think, oh, I'm living my

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best life. No you're not.
If you don't have Jesus, you are

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not living your best life. I
don't care how much far and you think

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you're having. If you do not
have Jesus, it is not your best

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life. It's not I know I
was once there too. The difference is

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when some people, some people claim
Jesus and claim to be living for the

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Lord. I never did that.
Even though I got saved at the end

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to twelve, I never was that
person, oh a holy roller, I

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served the Lord, and I never
done that. So when I got saved

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at twelve, you know, I
lived the way my mom taught us,

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you know, in a good way. But I wasn't living saying, oh,

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I loved the Lord, the Lord
is my God. And I just

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wasn't thinking like that. Even though
I was raised in the church, I

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still didn't have that connection. I
still didn't have that understanding only until I

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got older, much older. I've
fallen into into temptation more than once,

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more than twice, more than three
times. I've fallen into temptation many times.

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When I was doing w I didn't
even try to avoid it. I

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mean, I'm just keeping it real. I didn't even try to avoid temptation.

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I didn't think about it. I
just did what I wanted to do.

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Never ever did I think about what
I was doing. I just did

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it because I wanted to, because
I was operating in the flesh, I

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was seeing in the flesh, and
it was all about once and desires,

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that self gratification, that lust.
So I never ever want, not once

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did I think about avoiding temptation because
I wanted it. Whatever it was,

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I wanted it so I pleased my
flesh. But let me tell you,

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when I gave my life to God, and I truly repented for all of

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the best that I've done, the
wrong that i'd done. Now, I

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never did anybody wrong in that sense, but I did some wrong things.

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But let me tell you. When
I gave my life to Christ, and

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I really truly got that relationship with
him, never never, never, never,

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I didn't have no desire to look
back. And let me tell you,

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I gave up everything. I gave
up some things I didn't think I

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could give up because I loved it
so much. I wanted it so much,

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and I never thought I could give
it up, but I did,

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and I never chose to look back
or go back. Never. I never

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missed the I never missed partying.
I mean when I say never, I

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never missed it. Now, some
of you may say she's lying. I

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promise you on everything, I'm not
lying. I never missed going out,

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clubbing, doing whatever I was doing. I never missed any of that.

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And every time, even today,
when I think about HM, when I

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think about how God delivered me,
oh, my goodness. When I think

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about how he kept me. I'm
telling you, sometimes I just cut up.

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You hear me, I cut up. I totally totally cuts up because

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sometimes I can't help myself when I
think about where I came from. You

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just don't understand. When I think
about where I come from, when I

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think about the things I used to
do that I don't do no more the

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way I used to think that,
I don't think no more. I'm telling

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you, I cry. I mean, I just lay out on the floor,

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thanking the Lord for delivering me,
thanking the Lord for salvation, thanking

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God for his son Jesus, because
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Thanking God for the Holy Spirit and
saving the wretched, filthy person like

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myself. I just, I mean, I just cry. I shed tears,

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but they're tears of joy because I
know He's kept me. He's kept

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me from death. I know at
least four times death. I could have

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been electrocuted, but instead of getting
me, it put holes into scissors,

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electrocuted, I could have been shot. So many things that I've gone through

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that He's spared my life, you
know, And I'm just thankful. I'm

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grateful I'm just so in awe with
Jesus. Oh, I thank God for

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grace and mercy. I mean,
I truly, truly do. I'm not

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ashamed. I'm not ashamed at all. So I know when you become that

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new preacher, you don't worry about
to you see it, and you also

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will be able to deny it.
No, no, I mean no issues

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at all about it. You will
be able to deny temptation. You will

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not even put yourself in a position
or situation where you're tempted. You avoid

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that stuff, not that you're trying
to run and hide, but it has

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no pleasure for you any longer.
You just don't seek after it because you

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don't have that desire anymore. You
don't walk by your flesh, you're not

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led by your flesh. So you
don't have no problem in denying temptation when

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something happens, because people are gonna
try you. I'll have people to try

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me so many times and pay they
finally see who I serve is real and

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I'm real about it because they've came
back and told me. So, I

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know people can live a holy life, and that is what's required of us.

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It's required we must live Holy you
have so many people they talk it

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real well, Oh my goodness,
they talk it so well. I mean

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they can really spew those good words
that sweet like a honeycomb. They can

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spell them out real real well,
real well. They've learned the jargon.

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They know how to speak it,
and it's to a point that people believe

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it. Because see, people don't
know how to understand the difference between emotions

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and the anointing. People think because
individuals say things really well, and they

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say things with a lot of emotions, people think that they're powerful and they're

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annointed in Christ when it has nothing
to do with Christ. You're a hypocrite.

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He's not giving you his power or
annoying you. You only activate that

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when you serve them. You're just
not giving it out to any and everyone.

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You have to be of service to
him then you're able to activate those

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things. So many people are laid
the wrong way, but they don't know

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it because they are not connected to
Jesus. They're not reading the word for

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themselves. That that's going off of
what man tells them. Many people have

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made their pastors their masters. I've
said it many times. Your worship your

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pastors, when your eyes should be
on God, not man. So many

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people are led as straight. But
you know what is the individual's fault too.

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It's the congregation's fault too, because
they allow themselves to be led as

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strangth. You gotta get to know
God Jesus, not just looking at man.

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Will man tell you something. You
gotta know that. You know that,

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you know that it's the word of
God, not just man talking.

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Some of you are under the leaderships
of people who are making you pay for

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prayers. They're making you pay for
prayers. Show me in the Word of

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God where they happen. They're not
visiting the sick and shut in, but

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they say they love you. They're
living in mansions while you're struggling barely can

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make ends me. Some of you
can't even make end me because you give

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everything to the church, but you
get in nothing in return. Haven't you

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figured that out? Yet? You're
serving man and not God. God say

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he will give you the desires of
your heart. He is our father who

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has all the richest houses in Man. Yet so many people still got their

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eyes on man and not God.
So I'm just here to tell you on

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today, you gotta get your eyes
on the prize the best prize, the

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best present that you can ever receive. That's Jesus. Romans ten and nine

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tells you how to be saved.
But I've told you before that's like being

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birth the womb. That's just the
beginning. Living the life is everything else.

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And once you get to that point
in life where you really love the

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Lord and you're serving the Lord,
temptation will be nothing for you to face.

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I promise you that you won't put
yourself in that situation. You won't

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let people come at you like that. You will check them and let them

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know you're real about God's business and
don't bring that foolishness to you. If

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they can't be around you and be
respectful and treat you like the man or

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woman of God that you are,
you don't need that person in your path.

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On your path. You know a
lot of people try you because they

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want to see where you fall,
where you falter, will you break?

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None of that works when you're standing
on the world of God. What you

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will about our Father's business. So
again I would say, it is not

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the temptation, it is you.
If you fall for it, it wasn't

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the temptation, it is you.
It's what's inside of you. You need

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to be completely mind, body,
and soul. You need to be completely

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cleaned up. And when you allow
yourself to fall for temptation, you need

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to go back. You need to
repent and turn it all over. See,

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some people want to give up a
little bit here, want to give

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up a little bit there. But
you want to hold on to some No,

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you gotta let it all go.
All the hormone you you gotta let

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it go. All the running around
in and out of relationships, sleeping on,

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commitding, adultery, committing fornication.
You gotta let it all go.

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Trying to satisfy your flesh, being
greedy for money and all of that.

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You gotta let it all go.
You have to get the mind and heart

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of Jesus. He has no respective
person. It depends on you and what

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you want to get life. If
you really want Jesus, then he's available.

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And remember, the only way to
the Father is through the Son.

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That's why I know Jesus is not
God, because the Bible tells us Jesus

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is the mediator between us and God. So how can he be God?

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The only way to the Father is
through the son Jesus. So you gotta

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get that connection with Jesus. You
must because he is our mediator between us

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and the Father of God. So
get your eyes on Jesus. When you

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do, when you have your eyes
on the Father, the Son, and

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the Holy Spirit, your life changes. I mean seriously, it changes.

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You don't have to accept nothing wrong
in your life, no sickness, people

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who try to make you do things
that you know is wrong. You know

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when your eyes is on Christ.
So I'm just trying to encourage you today.

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You can let it go when you
let go. Let me say that,

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let me set that again. You
can let it go when you've let

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go, so that temptation, it
will not phase you in the least bit

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none at all. When you let
go and let God, you are not

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tempted by the things the devil try
to throw in your face or the things

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you open yourself up to, because
everything is not the devil. I hope

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and I pray you really think about
what I'm saying. I don't care how

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fine he is, I don't care
how pretty she is. I don't care

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what they have to offer, none
of it, none of it. I

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don't care what the world has to
offer. You will not be tempted when

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you really serve the Lord and you
love the Lord because your eyes is on

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the Father in the son and not
on men. And I know one thousand

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percent it's possible. It is possible, but it only depends on who you

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serve and that connection you have.
Because you can talk it all day You

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can have that lip service that the
Bible talks about. You can do that

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all day long, profess them from
your lips, but your heart is far

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from them. It's gonna show in
your lifestyle. If you're standing up before

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people telling them they got to pay
you all this money for a prayer,

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Lord, have mercy. Some of
you pray for deliverance when man can't even

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deliver you deliverance. It's from God, it's from Jesus. You cannot,

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as a man or a woman,
deliver no one. You, as a

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man or a woman, cannot save
no one. So some of you are

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even paying for deliverance. You just
so fooled because you don't have that connection

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with Jesus. So that's it.
That's all I'm saying about that. I

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hope I said enough for you to
get it. Thank you for listening.

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Please share this episode, go out
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Relationship Chronicles. I'm sure you'll find
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relate to. Much love to each
and every one of you. You're always

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welcome to reach out to me.
Go to my podcast page and it'll tell

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you exactly how to reach me.
Don't be shocked, don't hesitate, I

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will always respond. Thank you so
much. You know I end every episode

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the same and I hope you do
it. I was thinking I may place

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this episode under Relationship Chronicles. You'll
know when you hear it. Take care,

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God bless I end every episode the
same and I hope you do it.

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Thank going it