"Are You Cursed By The Words?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency. What is your location?

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'Cause there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, we see it.

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We see it everywhere, but we give you praise and thanks that

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you are in control of all things. And we declare your will be done,

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oh God, on earth, in and through us, as it's

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being done and declared in heaven. I thank you that you give us wisdom and

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counsel and words to speak, to declare your kingdom come.

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I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us, for denying yourself,

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taking up your cross, And giving an opportunity for us through

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your death to exchange your death for our death that we might live.

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And I thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy.

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And I thank you, Lord God, that there's power in our words. You said there's

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death and life in the power of the tongue. So God, cause us today to

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use our tongues to build and not tear down. And I thank you,

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Lord God, that you give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart

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to receive, that every member of our body will work together to bring

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forth your word. Your truth and your kingdom, your freedom. And I thank you

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for the divine promises of protection, that no weapon

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formed against us will prosper, that even in these desperate and urgent hours

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when everything seems to be unraveling at the seams pretty much

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everywhere, notice how I used my words there, I pray that this will

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be reversed and that the people will wake up and that your kingdom, your purposes,

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your truth will even use these situations and circumstances to

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bring us to the revelation of freedom and truth. So protect us now,

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Lord God, our day, our people, everything that pertains to us,

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those who work for us, pray for us, and love us. Cover and keep us

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in a quietness of mind and heart that we will not be afraid

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and that we'll walk in the fullness of your joy. In Jesus' name,

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amen. Amen. So what are we talking about today,

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young man? Well, what do you accept that's

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unacceptable? Pretty much everything. Yeah, a lot of times.

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Whatever things look like, feel like, that's what we accept, right? What are we content

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to live with and what are we content to live without?

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Well, that's a good question. So too often we accept

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the unacceptable in our lives, right? And oftentimes that comes

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through a programming or through a process where

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we have been indoctrinated or programmed or spoken over

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or raised in a situation where we believe that what we have received

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or experienced is the truth. Yeah. And then there's the

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Alcoholics Anonymous Serenity Prayer. God grant me the serenity

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to change the things I can change, accept the things

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I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Now, there's a problem there. So many times

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we think we accept things that could be changed,

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or we try to change things ourselves. And that also becomes

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a problem because we see that we fail a lot. So how does

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actual change and transformation happen in our lives if

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we're up against, you know, our upbringing, the words spoken

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over us, for example, and circumstances, how in

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the world does anything ever be transformed? Well, there has to

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be a desire for a change, a revelation, a realize, a desire for change,

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because so, so we can easily get used to and

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accept things like a messy house or a junk food diet,

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a boring life. We accept addiction, rejection,

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abusive relationships, depression, sickness, disease,

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poverty, pain, fear. A powerless church,

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people going lost without Jesus Christ. We can easily get used

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to those things and accept them. And then we just kind of say, well,

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we give up. It is what it is. We give up. Yeah. And this is,

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this is the, this is the actual battle. The battle in

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our mind and heart between our soul and our spirit is, are you

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going to give up and accept it is what it is? Or are you going

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to stand and receive your destiny?

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Receive your identity. And first of all, before we can accomplish our destiny,

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we have to know who we are. That would be our identity. Who am

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I in Christ? And that is not very well taught or

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perceived because most people are immersed in the snake pit and

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all they see is the mud and the filth and the failure and the words

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and the pain. And they don't realize that there's a rock you can stand

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on and there's a purpose and a divine purpose and a beautiful life

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that you can actually live here on this earth as we follow Jesus.

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And what— think of this— what lies have you believed and accepted

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about yourself or your, your personal situation or

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the conditions around you? What do you see in your life

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that appears permanent, immovable, unchangeable,

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and hopeless? And like many others, you simply may have

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given up and just concluded there's no way out of this.

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I've tried over and over again to overcome, and over

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and over again I failed. And then we get into that settled

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position, a horrible position where we say it is

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what it is. Well, you know, I think so many people are trying to change.

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After a while, you see it doesn't work. You can't sustain

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it. Like, for example, we make these resolutions. Okay, I'm going to go to the

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gym every day, or I'm going to, you know, stop drinking this, or I'm going

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to stop eating that. And you do it for a while, maybe a little willpower

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there. Maybe it becomes after a while a habit, but ultimately nothing

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that we make up in our minds to do is sustainable.

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Unless it's under the power, empowered by the Holy Spirit.

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So really to have, you know, people change,

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it starts with not trying to change. It actually starts with not

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just giving up, but surrendering. And I believe surrendering comes to,

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brings us to the truth. Now, so going back to identity and

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destiny, you cannot reach your destiny unless you know your identity and

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you can't know your identity through the world. The world is not going to tell

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you that the people around you are not going to tell you, they're not going

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to They're not going to flash it in front of you. You will find your

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identity in the Lord, in the Word of God,

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when he says we're made in the image of God, image and likeness of God.

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So we have to go all the way back, all the way back, back,

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back to Genesis 1:26-27, where God decided

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to make us in his image and likeness. And Satan has done everything since

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then to try to redefine us by what's happening to us,

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what people say about us, say over us, words they say,

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programmed, you know, even from infant, even from in the womb actually,

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to get us to believe a different story about who we are and what's going

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on. Well, there's an Old Testament example in 1 Chronicles

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chapter 4, verses 9 and 10, about a guy named Jabez.

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So what's happening in Chronicles, they're listing genealogies,

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you know, so-and-so was the father of so-and-so, so-and-so was the son of so-and-so,

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and it goes on and on and on and on, and it seems like it's

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a little boring, But then you get to the place where one guy just

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pops out, and it says, now Jabez was more

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honorable than his brothers, and his mother

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called his name Jabez because I bore him in sorrow.

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Now it's interesting, it says he was more honorable. He was— he had more

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weight. He was not that because he was overweight, because he,

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he was more honorable than his brothers. Well, I think that means

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too he was more sincere. He was more meditating

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on the truths of what's really going on than just

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blowing through life with an it is what it is kind of attitude.

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So his mother named him Jabez because I

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bore him in sorrow. Now, most of the time there's pain with childbirth.

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That's what I understand. But she named him

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that. He said she named him one who causes

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pain or one who causes sorrow. And in that day, usually it

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was the mother that gave the name to the child, and usually

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the name wasn't given to the child for like 8 or 9 days after the

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child was born. So we don't know why she,

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she names him one who causes pain. I mean, how would you like to

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have the name one who causes pain, one who causes sorrow? Here comes the sorrow

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maker, here comes the pain maker. And,

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and so she probably was going through a very difficult time.

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It could have been her husband died about that time.

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It could have been she was going through a particularly hard time economically.

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It could have been— we don't know for sure. It could have been she had

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a horrible— maybe she was depressed, maybe she had extra anxiety,

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a negative attitude, you know, difficult delivery, too many children. Or she was—

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yeah, she was— maybe the baby was colicky or

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cantankerous, or maybe had some defects.

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So she names him And basically she's,

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she's actually putting a curse on him by naming

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him Jabez. Right. And so, you know, how many of us,

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um, are named, you know, and, and, or we get these nicknames,

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we get these phrases that are spoke over us,

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like you stupid idiot, you rugrat, you're never

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going to make it, you GD, you know, whatever. Um, so many

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times, The child is so impressionable when they're tiny like

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that, young. And every word, especially spoken by a

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parent or an authority, can be a crushing blow to

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that person, especially that little one, especially if they don't have any countermeasures

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to hear the truth. And so I'm sure that Jabez was crushed

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under the weight of this pronouncement of words. It was like you said,

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it was a curse put on him. He's making— he's the troublemaker or he's

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causing pain. Maybe he doesn't want to cause pain. Maybe he really doesn't want it

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at all, but he's more honorable, but the honor has been buried

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over with these words of shame and condemnation. And that's

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a lot of times what happens to someone. You are gifted by God with something,

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some call in your life, some purpose, something God has for you to do.

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And the devil does everything to surround you, to bury

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you in the words, the situations, the condemnations of

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the opposite. So for example, if you're called to be a great giver,

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you know, uh, the enemy will throw you into poverty

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and make you believe, you know, I'm never going to make anything out of my

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life, or I can't do this, or I can't get a good job. Or,

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I mean, if you're called to be an orator or a preacher, he,

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the devil may cause you to stammer or stutter like Moses. Um, he said,

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I cannot speak. And yet he had to speak to Pharaoh. Um, and so

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whatever it is that the enemy is trying to crush you,

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keep you from doing, the words, the people, the circumstances and situations

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around you, like with Jabez, are going to try to hammer you into a mold

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that will keep you from recognizing your full true identity and

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potential. And so many people just are stuck in that identity.

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Um, you know, something that was spoken to them when they were

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young, like you said, that we get stuck in that particular identity.

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You accept it. The identity, what we think about ourselves,

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what other people think about us, what other people say about us and

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what's happened, what's happened in our life, what our experiences are.

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Um, you know, maybe we've gone through an addiction or I'm an

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addict or a broken marriage, or I'm, uh, you know, I'm just— or

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even just as children, even as children. Yes.

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Even as children. Like for example, diseased.

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That reminds me of the paralytic in Matthew 9,

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chapter 1. And so he got into a boat.

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This is verse 1. And so Jesus got into a boat, crossed over and came

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to his own city. And behold, they brought to him a paralytic

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laying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith,

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said to the paralytic— so these people are all excited about Jesus coming.

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They're very hyped up. They got— their faith is hot.

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And then they

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brought this friend of theirs, this paralytic, to Jesus. And Jesus looked

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at him. I think this is the one that was lowered down into the roof.

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Another version will tell you that. But Um, he said,

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son, be of good cheer. Your sins are

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forgiven you. A very simple, simple command.

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Um, son, he, so he's reidentifying this. This guy is seeing himself

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as a paralytic. He's seeing himself as, I can't walk. I can't work. My life

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is over. You know, I can't provide for my family.

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Um, I'm, I, how many people are in that place where you've just given

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up on your life because you just think, I can't, you're a paralytic.

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Spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically, psychologically, or with your relationship. You're trapped,

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you're paralyzed, you're stuck. You can't get out and you're,

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and you're there and you're waiting and you cry out and maybe you pray a

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lot and a little, or, you know, and you don't see God doing anything.

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And so after a while you just kind of give up and accept your

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condition. Now acceptance is important

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if you're accepting the truth, but if you're not accepting the truth, and so this

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man, Jesus, To get to the problem of being

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paralyzed, he had to start with addressing the problem of the man's

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identity. And so he said, son. So go back.

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If you're stuck in who you are, don't like who you are, trying to get

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out of it, trying to work your way out of it, be better, be whatever

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you're trying to do to increase or improve yourself.

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And you're still not making any progress. Go back to your identity and

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say, well, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. I am created by God.

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I'm, I'm not an, I'm not a rock or a rabbit. I am a

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created son or daughter of the Most High God. God is, he is my Father.

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He's committed to me. He started this. He's got a plan for my life.

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I don't know the plan. I am all tangled up here in this mess.

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And that's where you don't give up, but you surrender.

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There's a difference between giving up and surrendering. This man,

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he had given up, but his friends had not. So they brought him to

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Jesus and Jesus saw their faith and he said, son.

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So this man was restored by the true friendship of his friends who

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brought him to Jesus. And this is sometimes too, you can be a true friend

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to someone who you love and who's stuck in this situation, a parent, a child,

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and bring them back to the love of God and their identity. And that

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will begin to open up the channels of hope again.

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And, and peace and, and desire to be who you are created to be.

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Yeah. And that's another thing too, is we have— a lot of us have

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an identity. It's a wrong identity about ourselves,

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right? And we're thinking we need to do something about it,

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right? So I need to— what? I need to lose weight.

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I need to work out harder. I need to go to

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church more. We, we try to do this stuff in ourselves.

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To bring ourselves into an acceptable place, an acceptable place,

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uh, and, and really to what we can to— some people

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try to change their identity, but, but, you know,

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when you try to change your identity on your own, you don't know

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what identity do you want. Well, what are you trying to change? Who do you

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want to be and what are you trying to change and how are you trying

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to change? You're trying to change. You're doing it in

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your own power, your own will, and it doesn't work.

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So obviously then some of us have the wrong identity, the wrong concept,

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the wrong goals, the wrong projection of our life. We're trying to

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just make it in this world. We're trying to be successful, be loved,

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admired, accomplished, whatever all that looks like. And a lot of that stuff is just

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paper. It's nothing. It's wood, hay, and stubble because it

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doesn't last. It doesn't last. The only thing that's gonna really last is your

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internal, substance, who you really are in

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God and what you— and the only way you can really be who you are

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in God is to do what God really has called you to do and to

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follow that and to give up on all of this enchantment and

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wokeism and trying to fix things here,

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there. And it's just like, we're frantically trying to fix society or

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fix our lives or fix our relationships or fix our addictions,

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which we're trying, like you said. But the thing is, It's not working until

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we surrender. What does that mean? It means I say to God,

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I can't do this. Tell me who I am. Show me who

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I am. Get me in your word. Help me to, to, you know, be fed,

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nourished, built up, grow, grow up in your word.

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This is the only true substance and the only true foundation. The soil of God's

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word is what we need to be planted in so that we can grow up

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to be fruitful, uh, vines or fruitful,

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you know, plants in, in his kingdom. And I, I believe

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it was the word of the Lord. Somehow Jabez,

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even though he'd been given this name as painmaker,

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one who causes pain, and, and basically under

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a curse, somehow he must have come to realize—

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excuse me— he must have come to realize he was from the tribe of Judah.

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He was from the tribe of Judah, which is a tribe that was to

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be a tribe of blessing, a family of blessing through

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which— out of which tribe Jesus Christ himself would

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come. And it's interesting if you go back to when

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Jacob, who is the father of Judah and the, you know, 12 children

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of Israel— Jacob, who became known as Israel,

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he came— I mean, he came known as a deceiver, and he changed His

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identity was changed to be a truth teller, a follower of

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God, friends with God. He says in

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Genesis chapter 49, it says, Judah, you are

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he to whom your brothers shall praise.

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Your hands shall be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's children will bow

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down before you. And it talks about the

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scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between

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his feet until Shiloh comes. Which is another name for Jesus Christ,

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and to him shall be the obedience of the people. So basically,

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the father Jacob was pronouncing blessing on Judah and

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his descendants, and his descendants. So Jabez somehow realizes,

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yeah, he is a— he's got more class than he thought.

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He's coming from a bit— he's the best tribe, you know, of Judah,

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a tribe that was to be filled with great blessings,

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including the blessing down the line of Jesus Christ himself.

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So to break the curse that was pronounced over Jabez— you're

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a pain maker, you're a sorrow maker, you know, you're, you're a troublemaker,

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you're a grief to me— you know, how many children have been

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spoken, you're worthless, you're no good, you're a grief to me, you're never going to

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make— you amount to anything, you were unwanted. Yeah. Or whatever.

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All of these, these initial words spoken over

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children. And, and so many of them, actually every word that isn't

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from God produces and brings forth a curse. And the Bible

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says the curse, though the cause has not come. So the people are being cursed

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by the words of this death and life and the power of the tongue.

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So Jabez got smart.

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He actually went back and looked at his history and he said, well, wait a

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minute, I'm from the tribe of Judah. And now back to just a second,

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Jerry, and you said, Jacob the deceiver became

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Israel, the prince of God. There's another transformation.

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There's another— yeah, of identity. He was, um,

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called a deceiver because of what he had to do, was put

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up to do, or whatever. He was, he was, um,

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yeah, he was a manipulator. Well, he was a,

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he was a controller. He was, he was, he was a very deceitful person,

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but not really. The Lord got a hold of him. Well, Yes and no,

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because it was his mother that told him in the first place, which was Rebecca

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told him in the first place to deceive his father Isaac and pretend he was

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his brother and go get the blessing. So, you know, that's why he got

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the reputation too. But she, she actually, believe it or not, was being listened

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to by God because God had this whole plan set

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up. And it's, it's amazing how we think we know God and then God

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does something that's totally different. Amidst the evil planning

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and schemings of people, God's will gets to be taken care of. Yes,

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so anyway, so he was delivered and his son Jabez,

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great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson many generations

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later, also got to be part of the blessing. What happened

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to Jabez? It says, Jabez called on the God of Israel

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saying, oh, that you would bless me indeed and enlarge

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my territory and that your hand would be with me and

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that you would keep me from evil that I may not cause pain.

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I'm no longer gonna live according to the identity

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that was given to me by my mother. Yeah, exactly. So God

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granted him what he requested. Yeah, and this is really what transformation

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is when people are born again. See, you must be born

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again, Jesus said. And the reason we must be born again is to

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start over or to start reconnecting the right way

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with our spiritual destiny. If you don't, if you're not born again, you just

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live that dead life, dead life going

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forward and being under the curses and

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frustration and anxiety and flipped around and drug around

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by Satan and circumstances all your life. You must be

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born again. And if you have been born again, that means you've

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accepted Jesus Christ. You've surrendered your life. You've acknowledged that he died for

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you and you don't have to die and that your sins have been paid for.

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And now you're, You're a legitimate heir to the righteousness

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in the kingdom of God. So when— this is a very big deal.

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People don't think of it as a very big deal. They don't even know what

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it means to accept Jesus or be born again. They don't know that it's a

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transferring, removing, it's a dying. You can't

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be born again until you die. So you're dying to that old frustrated failure of

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a life and you're accepting Jesus Christ. Now when you accept Jesus Christ,

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you're a new baby, a new infant, a new creature.

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You've still got to be taken care of. So a lot of people who are

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born again don't know what it means to be born again because they've never been

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taught, told, or found the right church to tell them or grow them up.

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So the thing is, if you have that wonderful treasure of being born again,

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now you're eligible to step into the blessings of God and step out

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of the curses like Jabez. That was his revelation that,

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whoa, I am a descendant of a great man. I'm a

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descendant of a great tribe. I don't have to do this, be this. I can

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be different. And so, It took some courage on his part,

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I think some decision-making on his part to accept the truth

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and come into a better place, which he did, and you can do the

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same. His old identity became unacceptable

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to him, and so it says that he called upon the Lord. So we

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can stop there and say, oh yeah, he called on the Lord. Oh Lord,

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bless me. And really, the Hebrew language in

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which this was written originally, If we take the words

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in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 and,

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and pull out the richness of the original Hebrew language in

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which this was written, here's what Jabez was

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doing as he was praying. It says— it

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would say, and Jabez cried out,

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implored, called aloud, and shouted and roared

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like a lion with a specific, a specific sustained

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message or request addressed specifically

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to the God of Israel to elicit a specific response

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to a critical and chronic need to reverse the curses

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on me and to replace them with specific blessings or benefits,

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including expanding my boundary, that's giving him more opportunity and

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influence. And that you would open your hand to me and give

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me power, and that your provision and

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direction would come to me, and that you would advance me away—

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this is interesting— that you would advance me away from

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adversity, sorrow, trouble, and wickedness,

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and that it may not carve or fabricate me with

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worry, pain, anger, hurt, and sorrow.

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And God gave him what he desired and asked for. So he's

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talking about advancing me. That's interesting. You pushed— advancing me

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away, making progress from adversity, sorrow,

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trouble, and wickedness, that this adversity, sorrow,

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trouble, and wickedness may not carve or fabricate

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me, shape me, shape me with worry,

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pain, anger, hurt, and sorrow. So he's now moving down the path

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following Jesus and being walking away from the pit,

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away from the hopelessness and the despair. So he— God

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said yes. Yes. And so, and he interceded. It sounded like he was very intense,

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very intentional. It was not just a one-time prayer. Oh Lord, bless me.

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You know, no, it was a, it was a full 100% involvement

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in his, in his prayer and intercession. And I believe that this is

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what God wants of us too. You know, we can, you know,

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give lip service to God and all kinds of prayers and all kinds of platitudes

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and things, but you know what? The cry of our heart,

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The cry, you know, simply, it doesn't have to be elaborate. It just has

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to be genuine. For example, when, um, you know,

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Hagar was out in the wilderness with her son Ishmael and God heard the cry

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of the son, of the baby, of Ishmael, I suppose he was older, 13 maybe,

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but the Lord heard that. It wasn't even, it was intense.

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It was real. It was. So when you cry out to God, let it be

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real. And maybe it's because we have to get to those places

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of such desperation before we can actually get real

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with ourselves. But if you're in that place of desperation, that's a good place to

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be because now you're just on the threshold of being real

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and genuine and intense and asking God, petitioning God

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for your life that he has already saved you. But now he wants— you want

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to give him your life so he can live his life through you and

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lead you into the ways of goodness and blessing

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and prosperity. Jabez came to the place where he was no longer going to

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accept which was unacceptable as

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he realized this is, this is not my identity. This is not who I am.

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I'm not here to be under some curse and cause pain. I'm here

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to be blessed and to be a blessing and to have greater influence

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for, for, for God and everything. And, and the Lord gave

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him what he wanted to— amen— when he wanted. So we thank God for that.

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We thank you, Jesus, for giving us opportunities like this,

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this to be not only desperate, but directed by that desperation

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into doing things, crying out, calling unto you, Father, for transformation,

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not just change, but transformation, conversion,

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that we'll be transformed by the renewing of our minds. And that this, we don't

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have to live in these hopeless loop, you know, looping our

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life. It just loops around and around and again in a cycle of defeat

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and despair. But we will walk now in the fullness of following you,

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Jesus. Give us grace. Everyone who's listening today, may they be blessed in

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Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. What about family

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tree? Oh yeah. Generations, diagnosing your family tree.

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Don't you have a book about that? I sure do. What is it

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called? It's called Diagnosing Your Family Tree. You can get it on Amazon or

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on our website, liferecovery.com. And it's,

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it's really a deep study into generational curses,

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why they, how they work, where they come from, what they look like, what they

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do, how you can identify them, identify them, um, and what to do about them.

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So I, yeah, it's a great, it's a great book to

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look at generations and blessings and curses. So, um,

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yeah, that would be an excellent opportunity for people to check that out.

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Diagnosing Your Family Tree. And you can get it on Amazon and also the

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Life Recovery website. And, you know, do these things that you think about,

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you think, oh, I should do that. I should write that. I should, you know,

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about Rescue Radio. Start doing some of those things and stop shoulding yourself. Just do

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good news about Rescue Radio to other people who are desperate

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for some truth and help. And then also those other things

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that you're talking to yourself about doing, ask God to help you do them and

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complete the work. And so we bless you in the completion of

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who you are called to be in Jesus' name. Amen.

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