16 WRONG CONFESSIONS THAT KEEP BELIEVERS IN PERPETUAL BONDAGE, WEAKNESS & DEFEAT

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Jonathan Shuttlesworth – 16 WRONG CONFESSIONS THAT KEEP BELIEVERS IN PERPETUAL BONDAGE, WEAKNESS & DEFEAT

Date: February 20, 2026
Host: Jonathan Shuttlesworth (with Assistant/Co-host, Adalis)
Main Theme:
This episode focuses on the pivotal role of confession and speech in the Christian life. Jonathan breaks down how believers’ words and what they declare over their lives determines whether they walk in freedom, victory, and strength — or remain in cycles of defeat, weakness, and bondage. Drawing from personal testimonies, biblical examples, and practical illustrations, he exposes wrong confessions and teaches the necessity of “good confession,” faith-filled words, and steadfast belief in God’s promises.

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I. The Power of a Joyful, Faith-Filled Life

Key Insight:

• Serving God should bring gladness and victory, not sadness or defeat.
• True Christianity is marked by transformation and joy (00:13–01:18).

Notable Quote:
"The Bible says, the Bible said he has made me glad. You don’t come to God happy and leave sad. You come sad and leave happy." – Jonathan Shuttlesworth (00:56)

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II. Modern-Day Miracles & Testimonies

Jonathan shares recent testimonies to build faith and demonstrate the power of confession and expectation.

A. Kentucky Revival & Unexpected Generosity

• A small county saw 20% of its population attend meetings; local high school blessed Jonathan after hearing of the meetings (01:19–02:37).

B. Woman Healed of Lung Disease

• A woman on oxygen during service stepped out in faith and removed her tubes after receiving prayer, then ran around the church (02:37–04:42).
• Memorable Moment:
  “She’s running. Those hillbillies love running, man.” (04:26)

C. Miracle with a Baby (Missing Lung)

• Mother’s faith and confession led to miraculous signs: internal organs shifting, lung development returning, against doctors’ natural expectations (05:13–10:27).
• Jonathan emphasizes the mother’s consistency in confession and her relentless expectation, even before results appeared.
• Notable Quote:
  “Most people run back from God. But if you’ll press into the word of God, God’s word will make a way where there is no way.” (07:45)

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III. The Principle of Confession—Speaking Your Faith

Scriptural Emphasis:

• Mark 11:23—"Whosoever shall say..." (10:35–17:15)
• Romans 10—Salvation is obtained through confession with the mouth.

Key Insights:

• Life is shaped by the combination of what you know, believe, and speak.
• Confession is not just positive thinking but declaring God’s truth over your life.
• Notable Quote:
  “Your life is not going to be determined by what God said about you... Your life is going to be a product of what you know, what you then choose to believe, and what you then speak.” (16:19)

Illustration:

• Jonathan uses going to the gym as an analogy—engagement and action create results, not mere attendance or proximity (17:36–20:38).

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IV. Scriptural Foundations for Right Confessions

• Matthew 12:36–37: Words acquit or condemn; we will give account for every idle word (22:40–23:40).
• Jesus’ Example before Pilate: Declared His kingship as a good confession (24:46–25:44).
• Joshua & Caleb: "Good confession" brought the promise, while negative speech caused others to miss out (29:33–33:23).
• Abraham: Called himself “the father of many nations” before seeing fulfillment; faith is calling things not as though they are (47:32–49:32).

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V. Exposing and Correcting Wrong Confessions

Jonathan addresses how common “wrong confessions” (negative, defeated speech) keep believers in unnecessary cycles of bondage:

Examples of Wrong Confessions:

• Claiming “my depression,” “my arthritis”—taking ownership of defeat or illness (90:50–91:03).
• Speaking as if God’s promises are uncertain, e.g., "Sometimes God does it, sometimes He doesn’t."
• Stagnant language: Always asking for prayer for the same issues, never moving to victory (10:35).
• Focusing more on problems and obstacles (giants in the land, circumstances) than God’s promise.
• Complaining about generational curses instead of declaring generational blessings (81:44).

Correction—Biblical Alternative:

• Speak blessing, victory, and alignment with God’s Word regardless of current circumstances (Joshua 1:8–9).
• Change your confession to match God’s—“Let the weak SAY ‘I am strong.’”
• Celebrate miracles as done, even if they are still in process ("first the blade, then the ear..." 83:19).

Notable Quotes:

• “Quit calling it your depression. It’s hard for God to take something you claim ownership of.” (90:53)
• “There’s things you pray for and there’s things you pray against.” (88:17)
• “The last battle that you lost will be the last battle that you ever lose.” (68:06)

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VI. Testimonial Highlights

A. Family’s Provision (65:26–67:25)

• Family facing eviction confesses and believes for a new house, acts in faith ("put your feet on the ground"); even their son sows a prophetic seed ("for a house for my family"), and miracle provision results.

B. Persistent Confession, Gradual Change (69:07–84:13)

• Testimony of father and son: Though not all healing has manifested, their faith, joy, and confession open the path for ongoing miracles.

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VII. Generational Impact & Faith Legacy

• One person’s bold confession can shift a family line from curses to blessings (81:44–82:08).
• Encourages believers to set a new precedent—“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

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VIII. Practical Application: How to Make a Good Confession

• Know God’s Word.
• Believe it wholeheartedly, despite circumstances.
• Speak it out loud, consistently and boldly.
• Act on what you say—faith is never passive.

Notable Quote:
"Faith doesn’t cost you. Unbelief has a price tag. People saying God can’t do it cost… But faith gives a reward." (30:39)

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IX. Jonathan’s Prayer & Ministry at the Close

• Jonathan ministers healing over several individuals, speaking directly to organs and bodies (87:01–94:13).
• Encourages listeners to reject ownership of negative conditions and “send them back to hell” (91:03).
• Leads audience to salvation, stressing the very first life-changing confession is to declare Jesus as Lord (98:12–101:04).

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X. Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “You come sad and leave happy.” (00:56)
• “God’s word will make a way where there is no way.” (07:45)
• “The way you talk makes me sad. Sad for your wife.” —on negative confession (35:47)
• “If you'll be bold enough to say it, God will be bold enough to do it.” (71:40)
• “Quit calling it your depression. It’s hard for God to take something you claim ownership of.” (90:53)
• “Speak to the mountain, speak to cancer, speak to a tumor, curse it, tell it to die.” (88:17)
• “There’s no celebration if anything ever went right. Where’d I call you into after you made honor roll? That’s right. Got her a hot pink purse at Louis Vuitton.” (77:34)
• “The last battle that you lost will be the last battle that you ever lose.” (68:06)

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XI. Key Takeaways for Listeners

• Victory in life comes from renewing your mind to God’s Word and consistently making faith-filled confessions.
• Refuse to own or align your language with sickness, loss, or failure.
• Good confession aligns with God’s promises, not outward reality.
• Faith grows as you act on what you hear—keep pressing, keep speaking, keep acting (“Throw the bar back up again. Get stronger and hit it again.” 85:08).
• What God does for one, He can do for all—hold onto testimony and impartation.
• Your confession influences your family and future generations.

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For Further Exploration:

• Primary Verses Cited: Mark 11:22–24, Joshua 1:8–9, Romans 4, Matthew 12:36–37
• Featured Testimonies: Woman off oxygen and running (03:30); baby with regrown lung (08:04); family blessed with new home after eviction (65:26); father & son receiving gradual healing (69:07)
• Jonathan’s Challenge: Start changing your speech today. Move from being a perpetual “prayer project” to a “victorious believer.”

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Best summary of the episode’s heart, in Jonathan’s words:
"Your words are laying a beating on the devil's head. That's why he tries to get you to shut up." (50:08)

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Transcript

[Podcast Host]

Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revival today.com. and now here is evangelist Jonathan.

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Psalm 92. 4 For you, Lord, have made me glad.

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Through your work I will triumph in the works of your hands.

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If you're thankful that you serve a

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miracle working God, can you say amen?

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You be seated briefly. There's a guy that, he's a pretty

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well known minister and I've never heard him say anything that's like anti, like not in the Bible. But I just don't like him because he's angry and sad.

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And so I'm getting to the point.

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If somebody says they're a Christian and they got a frown, a perma frown, I just assume they've got bodies buried in their crawl space or something because

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the Bible says, the Bible said he has made me glad. You don't come to God happy and leave sad. You come sad and leave happy. Can you say amen?

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And so if the word of God's true, and it is, then everybody's got

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a reason to expect to have their. Whatever the devil's been doing to try

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to put a frown on your face, Jesus is going to turn it around today.

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Can you say amen?

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I came back from Kentucky on Friday night and we had a pretty powerful meeting down there. In fact, the pastor couldn't extend it this week because I'm preaching in Las Vegas. But we're going to come back in three weeks and pick up where we left off. There's 9,000 people in the county. There's no.

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Actually, if I had a different jet

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than the one I have, if I didn't have that third engine on the top, we'd have had to land an hour and a half away from the church because there's no cities close by. I mean, when you put on door dash, it was just empty. There's nothing. And so 9,000 in the county. There's no counties with any population nearby and there's 2200 in the town. And we had almost 500 people towards them, which is, you know, what, what, what is that? 20% of the population, something like that. So it was not only a big meeting, it was a great meeting. Some, some strange stuff happened. I had a strange thing happen that the public high school found out that an evangelist had come to their town. I guess they don't get too many visitors. And they heard about what was happening at the revival and some of the people were in the revival. So the home EC class took a day and baked food and desserts for me. And I ate it. So I'm gonna. I'm sending $10,000 of my own money to that high school just to say thanks. Things are gonna get turned around.

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Amen. And then. Then we had some miracles. I'm gonna play.

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I didn't play them in the first service. I played one of them. But this lady was there on oxygen with her oxygen tubes in, and she looked like she needed to be on oxygen. And I was preaching and I could see she kept lifting her hands and thanking God. You could tell the gift of faith was coming on her. So I came over and just grabbed her hand gently and prayed for. And then when I looked back over, she was looking better. And I think I prayed for again from distance, kept preaching. Then when I looked over at the

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end, towards the very end of the

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service, when I was taking the offering, I noticed she had the oxygen out. I didn't tell her to take the oxygen out. I don't do that. Some preachers do. That's fine. But I don't like to say now, if you believe that God's healed you take the oxygen out, it's great. But then if it's not fully done yet and they asphyxiate and die, it kind of wrecks the service. So.

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But she pulled it out on her own.

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And I'm going to show you what happened. This is Thursday night, I think,

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in your lungs, in your esophagus and in your heart. The Lord has cleared out everything that's of infirmity and everything that's of disease. That's why you kept standing up and lifting your hands. You could feel it. And then as you lifted your hands, it kept doing more and more. Your strength is returning to you in full measure. You're going to be able to eat what you want when you want, sleep through the night, use the bathroom on

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your own, wash on your own from

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the time you now till you go home to be with the Lord in Jesus name.

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Use another company to do another thing, people. So this the end of the service. Go ahead, play your oxygen out.

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She's running.

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Might as well have nothing to hide. Go ahead and receive the offering. We'll see you tomorrow night.

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Can't go anywhere but down from there. I just ended it. Those hillbillies love running, man.

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Love running in church. So she's better. Let me.

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What was the other one? Oh, yeah, I'll play it for you.

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But last year I was in Radcliffe, Kentucky. It's about three and a half hours, and a lady had a child born that was missing. A lung only born with one lung. And the organs weren't in their stomach. Their organs that were supposed to be in their stomach were where the other lung was supposed to be. So it was in the NICU and was given, I think, like some minuscule chance of even living.

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And so she asked me to pray

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for a cloth like Paul did and bring it to the baby. And then testified during that week that they started to see signs that a lung was grown back in the child. But I'll just play the video for you. This is in Kentucky this week.

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Everything to form right in this child right now. So first the baby was in the

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hospital, then I brought the cloth. And then at the end of the week, the baby was able to be brought out for prayer. The mother petitioned the hospital, let her take the baby out. So I prayed in person. So it's Exactly. What's that? February 20th. What's the day? The 15th. So it's almost exactly a year ago.

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Continue quickly. Discharge from the nicu.

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Do it.

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Oh, Lord, to confirm your word in Jesus name.

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Let that baby be a mighty preacher. Oh, no, no, no. Just the phone. FaceTime. You have your baby last week, Thursday of last week. And just. Just share.

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We found out about 20 weeks gestational age that he had a hole in his diaphragm stomach. And they sent us to Cincinnati Children's Hospital because they became specialists there. They wanted to do an experimental surgery. And we said, no, you're not playing with my baby. We believe in God. We don't believe in experimental surgery. So we knew. We knew very early on that it was going to be battle. They kept telling us his lungs were going to be underdeveloped. His heart was shifted to the right side of his chest, which was really weird when he was born to see his heartbeat on the wrong side of his chest. It was really freaky. Today we found out that God has moved his heart almost back to the center. His right lung is starting to show that it's making some sounds. It's not ready to breathe on its own yet. And I finally have a doctor that

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is telling me, this is what I

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want me to teach Sean today.

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Notice how the lady talks.

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She said he prayed and he got a little better, but still the lungs not working. It's not.

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He's not able to breathe on his own.

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What? Yeah.

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That shows expectation for progress. Can you say amen? And you think, you know, and I don't want to expound on it too much, but it had been much easier to just quit going to Church, they preach all that healing crap. And I've been going to that church for 40 years. Look what happened to my baby. She did the opposite. What do you do when you're tested? Most people run back from God. But if you'll press into the word of God, God's word will make a

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way where there is no way.

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What God did for this woman, he's going to do for everybody today. Whatever you came in here with, God's going to do, take care of it on your behalf, in Jesus name. Keep going.

[Testifying Mother]

He actually has two lungs, which we've stood on all along. They're calling it a lung nub on his left side. So we're going to call it his little nub. That's going to grow because that's what it will do. He was removed from dialysis yesterday morning. They're looking at taking his. He has a stomach drain because they weren't sure if his stomach was going to work at all. So he has a stomach drain that they're going to let the air into today. And providing that I'm expecting that we're going to hear the air that's going to go through his gut, that's going to come out tonight or tomorrow morning, and they're going to put a feeding tube in so he can start getting my milk in his little body. About 20 weeks gestation, they sent us in for our anatomy scan.

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Look who's in church. Immediately called us and said, now remember, he was missing a lung and couldn't make any noise.

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Every time that baby cried in church, the crowd just started clapping because it was like. It was. Every time he, like, cried, it was like a middle finger to the devil. Keep going.

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Calling somebody else for you. And then that person said, oh, by the way, we've called another person. He had almost no diaphragm. So his stomach, 20 weeks gestation, they could see it in the pictures. His intestines, his stomach, his liver and his spleen were taking up all of the place of his left lung. It was pushing his heart to the right side of his chest, his esophagus to the right side of his chest, and he almost had no right lung. Prognosis was extremely grim. At best, 50% chance of life for him. They wanted to do an experimental treatment for him, and we turned it down because God's word says he is healed, he is healthy, he is whole. He spent 128 days in the NICU and we did the surgery to have his diaphragm repaired. And I told my kids Wait and see. You made room for God. God's gonna fill this chest with two whole lungs. Just last week was the first time I saw his left lung and his right lung the same size on the X rays. God is so good. Only God Today is his birthday.

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So that's a good jumping off point

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because that's what I wanted to teach on today anyway. I started last Sunday when I was with you in Texas.

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I want to show Mark 11, 22, 24. I told the 8am crowd this and I want to tell you I made a decision. When I was a little boy in church, I noticed two groups of people. The group that needed prayer and the group that did the praying. I noticed people like my dad, my Uncle Ted, Pastor Volp, a bunch of other people you could name. I never saw Pastor Volp say, if

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y' all could pray for me, I need help.

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He was in a position not only was where his life was, was sorted out and he was living in victory, but then he had an overflow of that victory. That's what you end up doing as a pastor. You learn how to sort of your own battles. I never came in here one time. Y' all heard what they were saying about me on wtae.

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If you just keep me in prayer. It's been a hard week.

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There's a way. Not by macho ness or testosterone, testosterone replacement therapy or nothing wrong with that.

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I should make it mandatory nowadays, to be honest with you.

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But I'm not talking about bravado or being tough. I'm talking about triumph by the word of God. His word causes you to triumph. His spirit causes you to triumph. Anybody that sold you church as like a gracious way to accept defeat lied to you. This is the victory. First John 5, 4. This is the victory. Whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. And I want to unmask or unveil that faith. What do the people understand that triumph. Like that woman. You know that woman is an anomaly, but she doesn't have to be. People don't talk like that. People don't believe like that. And so I want to show you clearly what the Bible says. And then we're going to open the doors at whatever time we dismiss and we're going to release a thousand people that are going to bust the devil's head the next six days and come back next Sunday with a testimony.

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How the devil the first laugh, but you laughed last.

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In Jesus name can you say amen? Then Jesus said To the disciples. Have faith in God. 23. I tell you the truth. By the way, Sister Clarita, if you'd stand up, you've heard me tell her

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story that she was 2 pounds, 3 ounces, right? They have it right or wrong.

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2 pounds, 3 ounces in the NICU in Detroit, and one of her lungs didn't form right. And when they.

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She finally got out of there, they

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said she'll never be able to speak above a whisper. So every time you hear her sing, there's the reason it sounds so good and anointed, because she's singing out of miracle lungs. God took her weakness and turned it into a strength. I was told my parents were told he'll never be able to work a job where he has to speak. Some of you, when we were in the soccer stadium, saw that lady stand up in the middle of my sermon and asked me, are you the same Jonathan from Houston, Pennsylvania?

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How are you talking?

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You were very hard to understand. I missed recess two days a week

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to get speech therapy.

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And now God turned what I wasn't going to be able to do at all into the thing that, you know, basically all I do is talk. That's how I make money.

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Everything.

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I don't do much physical movement. I don't build anything. I just yell and get interviewed and stuff like that. Because the Bible says that God gets glory when where you were weak, now you're strong. You were an addict. Now you run an addict recovery center to deliver other captives. And so we're not just teaching this stuff to brag. We're telling you that one of the major differences in Christianity is it's not just lessons to help people cope with whatever crap they've had to go through. It's transforming power that picks you up out of whatever picture in and sets you on the rock to stay. If you can testify to that, can you say amen? So this is Jesus talking. I tell you the truth. Put King James up for 23, if you would, and then we'll go back

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to NLT for 24.

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For Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall say. Now, what does whosoever mean? Does it say whatever priest, whatever pastor, whatever person from the archdiocese, whatever bishop? No. Everybody say whosoever. I like that testimony. It's just a simple country, lady. Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, mountain. We're not trying to move the Allegheny Mountains over to Colorado and swap them for Pikes Peak. It's talking about things that exist that can't move in the natural they're immovable. I'm sure the doctors thought that was some Pentecostal nut woman. You know, she's saying that she wants

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a cloth weight on him. Why is this cloth on this child? She had some preacher pray for it and put it on him and, you know, I guess that's how they cope.

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A lot of times when you operate in faith, the world thinks you're in

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the stage of grief called denial.

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But it's not denial. It is. The Bible calls faith a wonder working power. Can you say amen? Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall say, I'm going to put a finger

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up every time it says say, or something about speaking.

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Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea. And shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he shall come to pass, he will have whatever he. So it talks about what you believe once and what you speak three times. Because people have a three times harder time getting what they believe over to what they speak. But death and life's not in the power of your thoughts. Death and life's not in the power of your heart. Death and life are in the power of the and your life is not going to be determined by what God said about you. And your life's not going to be determined by what your parents said about you and your life, like me, it's not going to be determined by what your teacher said about you. Your life, like Sister Clarita, isn't going to be determined by what doctors said about you. And the doctor. And the devil doesn't have power to override a person's confession. Your life is going to be a product of what you a know, what you two then choose to believe. And three then what you speak. And so I started last Sunday out of Texas and they were putting it on the screens here of four things every successful believer must know. Four Bible facts. Every successful believer. How many want to be a successful believer? How many want to be a prayer

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project that needs prayer for the same

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thing for 15 years? How many you want to be a successful believer? Four Bible facts that every successful believer. They all have these things in common. Must know, believe and confess. I did something last week just to illustrate something because it helps get the point across. And I'm going to do it again. Let me see.

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I know Brock doesn't like being singled out, but just real quick, if I could use you, Mr. Brock, just stand next to me so people can see our immense difference in body mass. Fat percentage muscle tone. Where's brother Brock? Praise God.

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Okay, this is not just to make a joke. This is a fact. Brock and I both go to the gym, but Brock and I do different

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things in the gym.

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Brock and I attend the gym at different intervals. I read that you're supposed to make sure you rest in between sets.

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And I've been resting Since April of

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2025, since my last set. You know, anybody that goes to the gym, you see that there's different guys in there. There's guys that are in the gym for an hour and a half and do four different exercises in an hour and a half. They're texting on. They go to the gym to text on a machine. Brock doesn't do that. Then there's other guys that go there. I follow Sylvester Stallone on Instagram. The guy's about 80 years old and he does an intense two hour workout that would put me on the flat of my back. Why am I saying this? Him and I both go to the gym, but him and I don't look the same because you can all go to church. But it's not just the going in the building. It's engaging the weights that build the muscle. Can you say amen? And so you can get somebody to the gym, but. But even if you. Even if you get somebody to be faithful to the gym. I was going to the gym regularly, believe it or not. And you'd have to take my word for it because you can't tell. You know, it's not good when you're going to the gym five days a week and people go, you do. Because I was doing different exercises. My trainer would have me do stuff like this. But if you go see Brock, you're never gonna see him doing this. I was doing like the PBS sit and be fit with Cheryl T for 80 year olds, in fact. And I'll let you sit down a

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second, but just stand up here because I don't feel lonely.

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When I started off at the gym, my personal trainer was going easy on me. She gave me, you know, if you go too low in the weights, the

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dumbbells, they're not even made out of metal anymore.

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They're made out of like foam. And then to extra embarrass you, they

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make them out of like fluorescent colors

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so you look super dumb. So I remember I was in Georgia and they gave me to start out because I was like very weak. They gave me four pound weights to do an exercise with.

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And when I looked over, there was

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an older woman who was Using the same weights, doing the same exercise, and looking at me like this because she was on oxygen. And she I'm telling you this, I'm not joking. I had somebody say, well, you shouldn't joke about. I'm not joking. She was on oxygen and she was looking like, I'm dying. You're 38. So it's not just going to the gym. Somebody could be faithful to the gym. That's step one. But you can go hang out at the juice bar. You can eat protein bars. I have a theory that most people

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get fatter the first year they go

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to the gym because you think you've earned some big meal, but you did nothing. You go to Jamba Juice and have something with a thousand sugar grams in it and you've been working out for a year and you have renal failure from too much sugar. You don't just go to the gym. You got to slam those weights around. And this is a church where we encourage people. You don't want a pastor that lifts weights. You want everybody in there to engage the weight of God Word and have it transform your life. Can you say amen so you can look like me on the outside, but look like him on the inside. In Jesus name can you say amen? Mark 11:23 KJV Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall say to this mountain, be thou removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass. Believe that those things. You could tell when that woman was talking. She now, it'd be one thing if she talked like that after the kids out of the hospital and all that. But we have the one from a year ago when the kid couldn't even be released from the hospital. She had the exact same confidence the year before. There was no change in her volume or confidence because she believed that those things which she said would come to pass. And she had what she said. 24nlt I tell you, Jesus said to the disciples, you can pray for what?

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Is that a need or is that a want?

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Everybody say anything. You can pray for anything. And if you believed, if you believe not that you will receive it, you believe that you have received it, it will be yours. Three times God mentioned what you said in His Word one time, what you believe, because most people, when you press them, they do believe. I do know, Pastor, I do believe that. But then they don't get it over their speech. So I want to show you a couple things about what the Bible says about speech even beyond that. Matthew 12:36 and 37.

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You can do NLT in all these.

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Matthew 12:36 and37. Oh, that's quick. And Jesus said, and I tell you this, you must give an account on Judgment Day for every idle word that you speak. 37. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you. Let me see it in King James.

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Actually do King James for 37.

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For by your words thou shalt be justified, and by your words will you be condemned. Let me ask you a question. How do you get saved? Do we make you slice your arm open and exchange blood with another saint or something? No. And though we get baptized, you get baptized. Second, the first thing you do to get saved or to get born again is believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead. And then do what with your mouth? Confess with your mouth. Because Romans 10 says, with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. As the Scriptures say, anyone who believes in him will not be put to shame. So you can't even get saved without a proper confession. First, Timothy 6, 13, 14. Everybody say, by my word will I be justified, or by my words will I be condemned. And then Paul wrote to Timothy, and I charge you before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus. This is interesting to me that when Paul was talking about Christ, he wouldn't bring him up without saying who gave, let me see, King James. Who gave a good confession or testimony? Same thing. Who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession? Everybody say, a good confession. Thou shalt keep his commandment without spot unrebukeable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. So when I was riding with Camila in the car, I asked, what good confession that Jesus made is Paul referring to? Put up John 18:36 and 37.

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John 18:36 and 37.

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So Jesus is on trial. He doesn't say, no, they have it all wrong. Jesus. This is the confession he gave. My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews? He said, if my kingdom was of this world, then my servants would have beat up these people that are going to deliver me over to the Jews to be killed. But you notice, nobody came to fight because my kingdom's not of this world. But now is my kingdom not from hence. 37. This is his confession. Pilate therefore said unto him, art thou a king? Jesus answered, thou sayest that I Am a king. To this end was I born. And for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of truth heareth my voice. I'm going to tell you that's what affects your life more than anything. Your parents think something about you, good or bad. Your teachers think something about you. People think something about you.

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But your life is going to be

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determined, like Christ, by if you know what your purpose is, who God made you to be, who you are now in Christ, and what your purpose is on this earth. I was called into the ministry at 8 years old. I've told that story before. I'm not taking the time to do it again. December 31, 2020, at our new Year's party, I was getting ready to eat cake and I felt strong on the inside of me. Jonathan, build me a strong church in this city, meaning Pittsburgh.

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And then.

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And so I did. I said from the beginning. On week two, when we had prayer, I said, this church is going to go to a thousand people immediately. And I began, that's a confession. Well, you heard me say stuff like when we turn key, we're going to be debt free. I'm not bragging, I'm making a confession when I say stuff like, no bank will ever have the privilege of saying we loan that reverend the money to do what he's doing. That God's going to make us the head and not the tail. Always the lender and never the borrower. I'm not bragging, I'm making a good confession. Because by my words will I be justified or by my words will I be condemned. I grew up in church. I know what kind of confession producer this is. A 35 year building project and loans and heart attacks and the pastor having to take a sabbatical because he's getting worn out. If you confess, there's no money in ministry. It's hard serving the Lord. Christians don't have any money. This is a poor area. Then you're going to have problems.

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But if you start confessing, the windows of heaven are open.

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Over my life, God is pouring out

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a blessing that's so great I won't

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have room enough to take it all in. The Bible says in Proverbs, proverbs, the wise live in wealth and luxury.

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Start saying what God said. You're never wrong when you quote God. You're never wrong to take a scripture and put it in your heart and

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then amplify it out of your mouth.

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And when you let that word come out of your mouth, God has a responsibility to confirm the word that you've spoken out of your mouth. Hallelujah. That's why I like playing those clips. I'm talking about how.

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How Jesus is a healer, how there's

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nothing that's happened to your body that God won't turn around.

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And then God came behind His Word and started putting oxygen in that lady's lungs. And then she thought, I'm ripping this

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sucker out and starts running around. God won't let you speak His Word and His Word fall to the ground because His Word is incorruptible seed. It goes out and always accomplishes the thing that it's said to do.

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Can you say Amen? That's Jesus. Good confession. Art thou a king, Jesus? Well, not really. You know, thou sayest it. You said, I'm a king. To this end was I born. And for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth truth. Here's my voice. And so Paul told Timothy the same way you heard Jesus, make no bones about. I'm not talking about walking into work tomorrow. I'm a child of blood butts, but I'm talking when you're pressed. And Jonathan, I know you preach healing, but where you're going, you know, it's third world, there's diseases there. No, somebody wants to. If someone feels free to speak up and speak death over you, there's no

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prime to open up your mouth and

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say, not me, brother, I'm going to live and not die.

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That I may declare the goodness of the Lord while I'm yet in the

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land of the living.

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Telling you, as this gift of faith comes into your spirit today in Texas and Pittsburgh, you're going to have a different life. Things that were set against you are going to start to fall to the ground because by your words, you're going to be justified. And by your words, the attack of the devil against your life is being condemned today.

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Joshua, chapter 1, Joshua, chapter 1, verses 8 and 9. KJV. How did Joshua and Caleb get into the promised land? Good confession, though. There are giants in the land our God is able to bring us. I mean, it's all through the Bible. How did this ever become a controversial doctrine? What about Second Kings 7, when everybody's starving to death and Elisha made a confession. By this time tomorrow, food will be so cheap, it'll be cheaper. It'd be like me prophesying back when gas was $6 a gallon if I got up in church. Said by this Time tomorrow, gas will be 75 cents a gallon. And the Bible says one of the king's advisors said that couldn't happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven. And Elisha said, you'll see it happen with your eyes, but you won't taste any of it. Let me tell you something. They get it all flipped around in America. They make you feel like there's a cost for faith that you know, faith cost you something. Amen. Let me tell you something. If you read the Bible, unbelief has a price tag. Unbelief cost that man his life. People saying God can't do it. Cost.

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But faith doesn't have a.

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Faith doesn't bring detriment. Faith brings a reward. When you speak the word of God, God gives a reward, not just in heaven. There's a reward coming your family's way

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this year in Jesus name because you made a decision. In a world that celebrates wickedness, I'm

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going to be righteous.

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In a world that celebrates sin, I'm going to live holy. I'm going to serve God with all my heart, all my soul and all my strength. And God has a blessing with your name on it. If you receive that today, clap your hands one more time. Give Jesus a mighty, mighty shout.

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Joshua 1, 8, 9, KJV this book of the law shall not depart from where it's not enough just to know, you know, Christians that are defeated. No, I know.

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The Bible says that. No, I know.

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No, I know.

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By his stripes I'm healed. Yeah. No, I know.

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No, I know you know. But it's what you say. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night. That thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then thou shalt. What happens when you speak God's word? What happens when you meditate on it day and night? What happens when you act on it?

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These churches revival, you know, we're not one of the. All these four cities that we got churches in now.

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I get, I get clips coming back

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to me, you know, I know there's

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churches that have opened up in this

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area that teach you that God will prosper you if you serve him.

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But that's not what the Bible says. I'm sorry that you can't read. For then thou shalt not. You just automatically get it again. There's Brock Christianity and there's Jonathan Christianity. But if you actually move the weights, God didn't give you those things in his Word to just take up your time or to give you more to do. Therefore you're profiting. If you'll not let it depart out of your mouth, if you'll meditate on it day and night, and if you observe to do what's written in it, then I will make your way prosperous and you shall have. Somebody say prosperity. Somebody say success. Is this the book of Satan or is this the book of Joshua? Okay, so don't tell me that prosperity and success are like outside ideas that we've pushed into Christianity. Next time you go to PNC bank, count how many Hasidic Jews you see

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in the loan office.

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You know why? That's their book, too. And you can do a lot more in life fully believing the first five books of the Bible than sort of believing all 66.

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Make you prosperous.

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I'll give you good success. I knew this church would be a success, not because I'm awesome, but because God didn't give it to me to fail. If you follow my instructions, they don't lead you backwards, they'll lead you forwards.

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Hallelujah.

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Some of you started gave your life to the Lord.

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Started going to church.

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You got family members and cousins waiting for you to fail, waiting for the

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bottom to drop out.

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They're going to be waiting a long time.

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Because as high as you've climbed, you're only going to go higher. There's always another level in God. You don't go up and down. You're the head and not the tail. From glory to glory, victory to victory, strength to strength. Hallelujah. Say it out loud. The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever.

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Yeah. It's not. Not hope so? Well, no, I hope so, Reverend. Hope nothing. If you do what I tell you and keep speaking it, I'll give you prosperity. Now you'll try to chase it. I'm not out looking for blessing, blessings out looking for me. I'll give you prosperity and I'll give you good success. Can you say amen?

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Hallelujah.

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Man, I love the Bible. Gets me high and I'm not going to rehab.

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I want more. I want to get super high.

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Then shalt thou have Good success.

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Verse 9.

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Have not I commanded thee. You know, it's funny. Everybody say prosperity. Everybody say good success. Everybody got mad that we got given a Falcon 50 jet. And while they were arguing or writing about that, God upgraded it to a Falcon 900. Yeah. God will let your enemies talk and he'll prepare a table for you in the midst of your enemies. Man doesn't get to determine how high you fly. The Bible determines how high you fly.

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If you'll hear it, put it in

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your heart and speak it out of your mouth. Have I not commanded thee? Be strong? Here we say, be strong.

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How many know God wants us weak and broken?

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No, he doesn't. He wants us strong. Be strong and of a good courage. That means don't be a wuss.

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You know, if it work, we never know. Amen.

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No, not amen. The way you talk makes me sad. Sad for your wife. Be strong and of a good courage. Be strong and of a good courage. That's why we have church like we have it here. Ain't no antifa breaking in here. And us hold our children and wait for them to leave. If you go to the outside of our church now. You know what? You thought I was nuts. I knew that stuff was. I'm not stupid. I guarantee you, if that crew with Don Lemon pulled up on the outside our church, they'd keep walking. The outside of our church looks like the closing scene of Sicario too, if you know what I'm talking about. Shame on you. Be strong. Somebody wrote online after that Minnesota thing. Is it right for churches to have armed security? I wrote back, no, they should wait till the shooter runs out of bullets and then call the police, you moron. How come they can have security at the Penguins game? Steeler game, Bank. And the church is supposed to sit here like ducks? No, we are not ignorant of the devil's devices and we're ahead of it. In Jesus name, everybody say, I'm smarter than the devil. I have the mind of Christ. Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid. They must say, I'm not afraid. They would say, I refuse to be afraid. Neither be thou dismayed means, don't be sad, don't look loserish. For the Lord thy God is with thee. You know if we played a video of it, like, who is the middle

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linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens?

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Ray Lewis. Like, how he'd come into the game.

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That's how you should be in the spirit.

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Don't do this. I'd rather you come into church. Like, Be strong. Be of a good courage. Don't be dismayed. For the Lord your God is with you. Whithersoever thou goest.

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I just don't feel like God's with me.

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So now quit feeling and start reading. God can't lie. Can you say amen? What else I got written. Okay, so then they got in with a good confession. Joshua and Caleb were different than the other 10 spies. The other 10 spies said, we are not able. Joshua and Caleb didn't deny there were giants. But they said, if the Lord is with us, we are able to go at once and take the country and possess it from Jordan to the sea. Though there are giants in the land, they're merely bred for us. David saw the same Goliath that all the other soldiers said, but he had different things. He said, I understand he's very big, but I also understand he's an uncircumcised Philistine. The sign of the covenant was circumcision. So I don't care if he's 19ft 6 inches tall. A man that doesn't have a covenant with God, it cannot take out a man who's in covenant with God.

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Then he told them before he ever killed them with the stone, he killed

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them with his words. Today the Lord is with me.

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Today I will kill you and then

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I'll cut off your head.

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And when I'm done, I'm going to run and get everybody else that's behind you.

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Let me tell you something. That's why we're still talking about David. We don't even have to say his last name. And everybody in the whole country, in America that didn't even exist when David was alive knows who David is, knows who Paul is.

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We talk about them on first name basis because they had a good cause.

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Confession. No one's going to remember unbelievers, doubters, discouragers, critics.

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But today you're going to make a new name for your family by being somebody that stands up and says, God that began a good work in me is going to bring it to completion. You're going to start a generational blessing that the devil can't take away.

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Did that confession go away? Joshua 14, verse 9.

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NLT, I think it's 9.

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Go to eight. So Caleb comes back to see Joshua when they're both old men 40 years later. But my brothers who went with me frightened the people. This is Caleb talking, my brother. Go to six.

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I think it starts at six. I'll just read the whole thing.

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A delegation from the tribe of Judah led by Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, remember what?

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I already know what I'm going to say and it's helping me

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remember what the Lord said to Moses. Joshua and Caleb knew. They paid attention to what God said. It wasn't well.

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He said, we can take the promised Land. But you know, we'll see.

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No, they're still talking about 85. Remember what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh Barnea? Because I sure do. I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me to Kadesh Barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report. But my brothers, who went with me frightened the people from entering the promised land. For my part. So he's given a testimony. He's given his confession. Those other 10 spies spooked everybody out of the promised land. But for my part, I gave a good confession. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the Lord, my God. 9. So that day, Moses solemnly promised me, the land of Canaan, on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever. Because you wholehearted. That's why you need to be careful what land you're trying to take in the Middle East. That's why it doesn't work out too well. That's why one group has missiles and the other has rocks. Because you're tampering with covenants that are old. Because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord, my God. 10. Now, as you can see, in other words, he wasn't on a walker with tennis balls on the front, saying, like, now, I know I don't look like much, but I'm still strong. He's saying, at 85 now, you can see the Lord has kept me alive. Not just alive. Joe Biden's alive. Everybody say alive and well, as he promised for all these 45 years since Moses made this promise, even while Israel wandered in the wilderness, he's still making confessions. Watch. Today, I'm 85 years old, and I'm as strong now at 85 as I was when I was 40. By the way, in case people don't know, this is not in the time period where people are living to 6 and 700 years old. God. It was in Moses's time that God said, people will no longer live past 120. Moses died at 120. These guys are after them. I don't think. I don't think either of them made it to 120. And so this is like our dispensation of people that he's 85 and he's saying, look at me. You know, Stallone kind of looks like that. So this is Looney got born again. His brother is a singer named Frank Stallone. He got saved, and then he led Sylvester to the Lord, like three years ago, I saw him on Instagram. He's always, you know, people, if they live long enough, usually get saved when

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their flesh gets weaker.

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But he's kind of like that. He's strong. He's, you know, you watch.

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I'm not telling you to watch it,

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but like Tulsa King or whatever, he's in. He's still doing stunts at eight. He Most 80 year olds can't go to the mall. Hey, Grandpa, we're going to the mall.

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You want to come?

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I can't. I need to go to the bathroom. I'm as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey. And I can still travel, but I can still travel and I can fight now as well as I could then. Now, in the New Covenant, we're not supposed to be hitting people, but we could because there's a power that's extended. Listen now. The power that saves your soul does not stay in your soul. It renews your mind. It gives strength to your body. It gives strength to your spirit. It gives strength to your finances. It blesses and strengthens everything that pertains to you. You're getting stronger even right now. I said you're getting stronger even right now. I'm as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey. And I can still travel and fight as well as I could then.

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What's verse 12 out of curiosity?

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So give me the hill country that God promised me.

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Now look.

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So there was land promised to him that he hadn't received yet. So he didn't say now. I guess, you know, sometimes God did

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get us in the promised land that he said we were going to get a hill country, and we never got it.

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But, you know, some things we just have to leave with the Lord. No, I'm going to get everything that God said. So, Joshua, I want permission. At 85. There were no guns back then. So when he was going to lead people into battle at 85, he was taking his clan into battle to go drive men out of the hill country that God promised him. There's something that is still left for you to do. There's a promise that's still hanging over your head. Don't let the devil tell you you're too old.

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People, you know, you ever hear people talk?

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You know, God said that my family

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is going to serve the Lord.

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And they're not. Are you dead? Are they all dead? Why not talk like that lady in Kentucky?

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He doesn't have it yet.

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My family's not saved yet. My daughter My, my dad's not healed yet.

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But I know God is performing it. Now I'm speaking it now I claim it. Now I praise him. Now I give you him the glory. Now

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I'm probably never going to get

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to my notes because I'm having too much fun in the scriptures.

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Go. Romans 4:16.

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You can, you can do NLT.

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So the promise, all these promises are mine? Yes, potentially. But you receive them how? And what is faith? Knowing God's word, believing God's word, speaking God's word and acting on God's word. If you don't do those things, then you're going to have to come up with some weird doctrine. And I know the Bible says that sometimes God has a different plan. No, you have different words. So the promise is received by faith. It is given as a free gift and we are all certain to receive it whether or not we live according to the law. If we have faith like Abraham's. For Abraham is the father of all who believe. Praise the Lord. Does anybody else feel power in this room? You don't have to say yes if you don't feel it. I just wonder if I got leftover

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residue from service one.

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I feel the Holy Ghost in this place. Let me tell you a secret to life. If you talk positively about God and His word, God will move heaven and earth to get what the Bible says to you. Can you say Amen? Hallelujah.

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Let me see my scripture. Why you put my denim wrinkled shirt up there? Sorry I didn't have a suit and tie in me today. Sorry that I look like I'm from. I got kicked out of a motorcycle club.

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And we are all certain to receive it whether or not we live according to the law of Moses. If we have faith like Abraham's. For Abraham is the father of all who believe. Now it's going to tell you what

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Abraham's faith is like.

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17. This is what the scriptures mean when God told him, I've made you the Father of many nations. This happened because Abraham believed. Let me see.

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King James kind of messes it up there.

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As it is written, I've made thee the Father of many nations before him, whom he believes. Even God who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were. This is where people don't understand faith. They think, you know, if somebody has cancer, we tell them, no, don't say that.

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You don't have cancer. You don't have cancer.

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No, Jesus didn't die for imaginary diseases. Faith doesn't call those things that are as though they're not. It calls those things that are not as though they are. What do I mean by that? What does the Bible say? Let the weak say. That's a Bible command. Yeah, but I'm weak. I know God said, if you want it to reverse, start saying the opposite. Find a scripture that guarantees you the opposite of what you're having right now. Believe it in your heart, speak it with your mouth, and the word will begin to overwhelm every present circumstance. I'm telling you, I have seen many families stand on me. As for me and my house will serve the Lord. And in Acts 16, salvation has come to your house. I've seen a woman get saved, stand on that scripture until 30 plus members of her household. One of the women's watching right now, my mother. We're down to like three cousins that are yet to be saved when nobody on that side of the family knew the Lord. Remember that cousin I told you about that's a union electrician in New Jersey? That when Charlie Kirk got shot, he just bought a Bible and started going to church? And then called my mom and said, can I do Bible study with you every night? He's 46. He doesn't go to church. But my mom stood. She's got a yellow legal pad by her Bible with every one of their names written and for 30 freaking years has stood.

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They're going to serve the Lord and one after another after another. You can have what you say. You don't have to take what life gives you. You can take what God said belongs to you. Can I tell you something?

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There's going to be many people represented here that you're the only one in your family.

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Then we get in that new building in a few weeks, you're going to fill a whole section with your cup cousins, your maternal grandparents, your paternal grandparents. Your family is going to come to Christ. As you stand on the word of God. If you receive that today in Texas, clap your hands. In Pennsylvania, clap your hands all the earth. Lift them up. Shout with the voice of triumph.

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Say this nice and loud.

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My words are laying a beating on the devil's head. That's why he tries to get you to shut up.

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That's why you believe it. No resistance. You go to speak it and you're. That's crazy. Don't say that. People are going to think you're nuts.

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People are going to think you're bragging.

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Who cares what people think? People are. People are nuts. What are you going to change? One thing you believe what Are you trying to please people? For people don't pay the bills. People don't construct a place for you to live. I pray if I can impart one thing. You're going to get criticized if you're poor. And you're going to get criticized if you're rich. If you're poor, people are going to criticize you that you can't send your

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

kids to college, that you're never able to get them a car, you never

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provided for your family. They're going to criticize you.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

And if you're rich, take it from

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me, they're going to make up stories about how you were able to get that plane. They're going to make up stories.

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They're going to make up stories about you. They're going to accuse you of things. But if you're going to get criticized anyway, make up your mind. Let them talk. I'm going to have what the Bible says. I'm not lowering my standard of blessing

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to what the world approves of.

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If your father gets you a coat of many colors, you don't keep it hung up in the closet cuz your brothers don't like it. Brother, break that thing out and wear it. I see you breaking that out and wearing it today. Shout it out loud. I am blessed.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

What, are you going to be less healed because people don't like healing? Have an acceptable level of strength, why not have supernatural strength? Why not have a supernatural mind? Why not have supernatural wealth?

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Why not have the windows of heaven open?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

If Elon Musk can believe for a house on Mars, you can believe for one in Mars. Pennsylvania. There's no criticism based in the world's direction on what they believe for and the riches they get.

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Jet.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

That preacher has a jet. Ask. My two pilots came today. Great guys over there worth clapping for. Asiel and all the way from Persia, my brother. Besides Kentucky and West Virginia, when we land in California, are we the only jet on that field? When we land our plane in California, are there any other jets on that

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Runway or where we park them?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

There's a few, right? Yeah. 15, 20, depending on where we land. 30 when we landed in Scottsdale, right before that golf tournament, there had to be 40 planes, private jets there. How come they don't feel bad? How come Hugh Hefner didn't feel bad for having a plane with the Playboy Bunny logo?

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How come the world's allowed to have

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everything and you're not? I never signed up for that. I had somebody cutting my hair one time. They said, I thought you guys were supposed to take a vow of poverty. I said I missed that day.

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I decided to take the opposite vow. The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. We're going to build big churches. We're going to drive big cars. We'll live in big houses. Just to stick it to the devil. You are blessed.

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If you believe it.

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Shout.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

I receive it. Okay, let me see. Romans 4. You can be seated. You ain't tricking me into quitting. Who calls those things which are not

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as though they were 18? Who?

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Against hope. That means having no reason to hope, hoped that he might become the Father of many nations. According to that which was spoken, so

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shall thy seed be.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body. Say this out loud. God never speaks according to my capacity. He always speaks according to his capacity. It's not my job. I've had several pastors tell me, boy,

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with four churches, you must feel a lot of pressure.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

I feel the least pressure today that

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I've ever felt in my life.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

They're not my churches. They're Jesus churches. They're his concern. It's my job to steward them properly and obey pertinent instructions he gives me in prayer. It's not my job. When have I ever come in here

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and tried to raise any money?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Everything that happens, happens by faith. This building was here for free. No offerings taken, no loans before we ever held one Sunday service. True or false? Yeah. And that's how it's been. It's been miracle after miracle. Because I don't consider my ability. I consider God's ability. If you let people talk to you about human ability, you're going to get discouraged a lot. Humans have no ability in Kentucky or what's the hospital they send the president

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to near D.C. walter Reed.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Whether you're in rural Kentucky or whether you're at Walter Reed with the best military surgeon that the President uses, they can't make a lung grow. They can't make organs go back to where they belong. They can't create things in people's body. But God is an almighty God. I am El Shaddai, the almighty God, the all sufficient one.

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The God of more than enough

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

being not weak in faith. He considered not his own body, now dead when he was about 100 years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb. Bible's telling you if you're 100, you have as much chance of having a

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baby as a corpse.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And if you're 90, same thing. 2026. If you're 100, and you take your 90 year old wife to an IVF clinic, they're going to put you in the mental institution. But Abraham didn't care. 20 he staggered. Not everybody say I refuse to stagger. Not even just not believe. Stagger. Now I said this in Texas last week, I'm going to say it in Pittsburgh this week. Most preachers that you hear, if they try to talk about healing or blessing or anything tangible, you'll just hear them stagger at the pulpit. They're having like a one man debate because they've heard so much in seminary or Bible school or whatever or other preachers now. Well, we're going to talk about healing today. Now I know there's, there's a lot of people who don't agree with this.

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And I know, you know, I know

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

personally my aunt was sick and we prayed and she. They stagger. The Bible says a double minded man is unstable. You never read any verses like and Abraham told his servant, now God said he's going to give me a son. You know, we'll see. I'm not saying he do it, but it would take a miracle.

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To be honest with you, it would you preachers, you know, to be honest with you, it would take a miracle. Geez, if we only knew somebody who had the capacity to perform such aforementioned miracles.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

You hear him say something like all we can do now is pray. Say that again slowly and listen to

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the words that are coming out of your mouth.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

He staggered not. In fact, God made him change his name from Abram, which means Exalted Father to Abraham, which it now my name means God's gracious gift according to Zondervan bookmarks. But it doesn't say that it's Jonathan. But Abraham's name didn't mean Father of Many Nations. Abraham's name in that language was Father of many Nations. Like how first nations people talk. Run it runs with bull waterfall, whatever. That's what his name was. So God literally made him introduce himself for years and say I am Father of many nations. Every time he met somebody and probably had to put up with a few. I see your grandma's over there. Where's your wife that's going to have the children? No, that's my wife. She's going to bear the child, okay? This guy's nuts. I'm sure they thought Abraham was nuts. I'm sure they thought Joseph was nuts for believing Mary's story. You know, took an angel to get him to believe it because, because it was unbelievable. I'm sure they thought Abraham Was nuts. I'm sure they thought that lady in Kentucky was nuts. Hey, I'm trying to do her.

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Baby is less than £2 and every time I go to the treatment, there's

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

some cloth on it. What's that? Oh, she had her church put olive

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oil on it and wants it on the b. Oh, what's that, like a four leaf clover?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

The kind of thing.

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I don't know.

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So, yeah, I guess they believe. You know, you'll see it when she comes. Doesn't wear any makeup. She's like, they're different. Well, whatever, you know, people need different things, bro. You know what I'm saying? People, different things they cling to in times of trouble.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

You hear preachers talk like that. People have things they.

[Assistant or Co-host]

They cling to in times of trouble. That's not something I cling to in a time of trouble.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

I'm not ashamed of the gospel.

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I impart that to you today by the Holy Ghost.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

An inability to give two hoots what anybody thinks about the Bible.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

You believe it, you know, God said it and you know you possess it now and nobody can back you up.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

That's why the only thing there's any resistance to is Christianity.

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You're going to that church again.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Didn't he just get it last week? God forbid if you did 21 days of prayer and fasting, but if you go to Rivers Casino, 21 days in a row, nobody's going to say anything. You win, You go to Rivers Casino all you want. Go to a Meadowlands and watch the. Listen, no one's going to say all that place wants is your money when literally all they want is your money. And you never heard that from your family one time. You never heard you're going to the

[Assistant or Co-host]

bar on Saturday and it just goes Friday night. I think that bar is a call. I heard people fall over in there.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

No, people are okay with your phone as long as it's from alcohol poisoning. As long as it's not the new wine of heaven. I think all that place wants is your money. Meanwhile, I'm going to Las Vegas today.

[Assistant or Co-host]

Something you shouldn't say as a preacher, but it is true. Because I'm preaching there at the Ahern Luxury hotel on the Strip because the

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Lord told me to go preach there. And everybody told me the casino has not let preach.

[Assistant or Co-host]

No casino has let a preacher preach there since 1983 or so when Katherine Kuhlman went. But I don't need him to let any preachers go.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Just me. And sure enough, after we called every

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place and Got rejected just like they said.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

The Plaza Hotel and Casino in 2024. Called back nine days ahead of time

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and must have figured some money is

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

better than no money. And said, if he still wants to

[Assistant or Co-host]

preach, he can come.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And we had less than 200 people were on the floor gambling, and over

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800 were in the ballroom.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Hearing the word of God, the security guards got baptized in the Holy Ghost.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

Hallelujah.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Everybody say it gets better. So then the second night, I finished preaching, and a guy's standing at the back in a suit and tie.

[Assistant or Co-host]

I figured he's.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

He's with the.

[Assistant or Co-host]

The casino.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And he comes up.

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I said, are you the manager that rented this room? He said, no.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

He said, I'm the vice president of

[Assistant or Co-host]

the Ahern Luxury Hotel on the Strip.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

He said, how did you get in here? He said, they don't let. They don't let preachers.

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I said. I said, I know. That's what they call this guy. Made an exception for him.

[Worship Leader or Singer]

Me.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

He said, well, listen, I just wanted to come and tell you if you ever want to come back to Las

[Assistant or Co-host]

Vegas, you don't have to try to

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

push your way in. He said, I. I was in your service. I like what you're doing. He said, our hotel's on the Strip.

[Assistant or Co-host]

It's right next to that Golden Steer Steakhouse. That's my favorite restaurant.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Which, by the way, you can't get in there. You need eight months in advance. Where's Mis? She left.

[Assistant or Co-host]

She fighting with her husband in the parking lot.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Tell him to get out. He. They already put a restraining order.

[Assistant or Co-host]

Next time, they're gonna have to take him in.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

We had the novel idea to call anyway. You can't get in.

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You need to know.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

You need to be on a list. Magalis calls. Turns out the lady that runs reservations

[Assistant or Co-host]

at that steakhouse that I want to eat at is from Bethel Park.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

They get to talking, and she gives McGalis her personal cell phone number and

[Assistant or Co-host]

says, anytime Jonathan wants to eat there,

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

just call me at home, and I'll get him in. See if you'll have faith to go do what they say you can't do. Go to the car dealership. Put your feet on the ground.

[Assistant or Co-host]

Ground.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Go to the house. Put your feet on the ground.

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Give God an opportunity to move for you. What others say can't happen can happen for you. Hallelujah. Amen.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

I like this front.

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Front row. I like these guys. I'm gonna get a microphone. Microphones

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

now. I'll give you another one. I might have shared this last week but it's worth sharing again. 21 days of prayer and fasting. One of the families from California that the husband just got saved, they go on a 21 day fast believing for increase in breakthrough. Four days into the fast, they get a notice that they're getting evicted from their apartment. Not for not paying, they're just, they're going to sell the building and they want them out. Well, that's the opposite of what they're believing for. What do you do when you're believing for advancement? You get the opposite news that happened all the time in the Bible. People are believing something. Jairus, Jesus, can you raise my daughter from the. She's sick. No problem.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

And then when they're on their way,

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

people came and said, no use troubling Jesus now. She's dead. Jesus said, if you can believe, don't worry about what they're saying. So the devil oftentimes will try, will do everything in his power to make it worse than the natural, because he knows if you don't back up, he can't back you.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

And I prophesy in the name of Jesus, you'll never back up again. Hallelujah. You're not going to win a victory. You're going to win victory after victory. Hallelujah.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Say it out loud. The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever. Forever. So the wife says, if we're getting kicked out, I'm gonna believe for a house. And so she picks out a house the gift of faith jumped on her, goes on Zillow and just picks the

[Assistant or Co-host]

nicest house that she can't afford, can't

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

afford any of it, doesn't qualify for any of it. And goes to the showing. Everybody said, go to the showing. Everybody said, put your feet on the ground. Put your feet on. Get dressed up, go there and act like you belong long and watch what happens. Watch the favor of God kick in. I was going to say don't go

[Assistant or Co-host]

in a hooded sweatshirt, but we had a guy from around here wi senator doing that. So do whatever you feel led to do.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

She goes to the house and there's eight families there. And she said the owner walks straight over to her and goes, who are you? I'm just interested in you. Everybody say favorite, I'm interested in you.

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Who are you? Well, I'm here.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Do you have the money for this? Can you get me this much? She said, I'll have it to you by Friday. She had no way to get it at all. But she has felt to say that all the money came in on Wednesday, do you know what she found out? Her kid, when they found out they were getting evicted, her kid at Mighty Kids.

[Assistant or Co-host]

I know the kid's like eight, nine,

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Took an offering envelope at Mighty Kids.

[Assistant or Co-host]

I'm not doing this trying to get your kid to give 20 bucks.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

I'm telling you what they did. The kid took $20. Had heard me speak on YouTube about

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naming your seed and giving with expectation.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And they have it at Mighty Kids children ministry, the $20 bill in the

[Assistant or Co-host]

thing, and he wrote on it for a house for my family.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And when they went to the second showing, she brought her kids with her. And the lady that owned the house

[Assistant or Co-host]

walked by the seven other families and went, went over to her kids and

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

said, go pick out your bedrooms. And then told her, I like you, I'm going to work with you. They got the money and she showed me on her phone the house that they got. They were in an apartment near la. They're in a beautiful two story home.

[Assistant or Co-host]

Now that's that prosperity message.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

You think the devil gave her that house? You think the devil spoke to her son to put money in the work of the Lord?

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

No.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Let me tell you something, my friend. There is a God who will bless you in the city. He'll bless you in the field, bless you when you come in, and it'll bless you when you go out.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

Amen.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And if you start working that thing called faith, it doesn't stop. See, Clarita was a premature baby missing with a lung that didn't work and now it's working, but it's not there. Married a guy in the ministry using that voice all over the world now. TV's open up, she's on TV. If you'll get on the faith trail, there's no backing up on this trail. There's glory to glory, there's strength to strength.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

No ups and downs, just ups and ups. I'll make you the head and never the tail. I prophesy in the name of Jesus, the last battle that you lost will be the last battle that you ever lose. The greater one lives on the inside of you.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Romans 4, 20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. That's going to be you after today. Can you say amen now? You feel the kind of atmosphere that's in here right now. It's the atmosphere of faith. And so I want to show you. This is another one from Kentucky. You start speaking like this. I showed you. The lady just decided to yank her

[Assistant or Co-host]

Oxygen on, off, and take a lap. She couldn't do either of those things.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

She couldn't breathe sitting down. Now she's running unabated. Was in the service the next night with no oxygen.

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Oh, I slept.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Tonight, I'm fine. Can you say amen? Then this. These guys drove down five and a

[Assistant or Co-host]

half hours last year when I was in Kentucky. They saw me on a news interview,

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

had never been to church. The father and his son decided to drive from Illinois to Kentucky to get saved. And then the next year, they come back and the sun's still in a motorized wheelchair. So I asked them, like, you know, why did you come back? Why aren't you, like, mad?

[Assistant or Co-host]

Why?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Because your son. It's been a year.

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Your son's not got out of the motorized wheelchair.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

But they're not mad.

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They're happy.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

So watch this. And then I'm going to say a

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couple things and I'll leave you alone for a week.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Pause. See, now I'm gonna have them play from the beginning. When they do. See the guy going like this with his hand, he said he had severe arthritis. Now, think, these people don't go to church. They're sitting in where you're sitting right now. My son, attend unto my words, for they are life unto your flesh and radiant health unto your bones. Just like you can sit somewhere and people say things that make you feel worse, you can also sit a place where people say things that make you feel better and then beyond feeling better. When God's word's going out, it carries supernatural healing for your mind, for your

[Assistant or Co-host]

spirit and for your body.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Can you say amen? It's flowing into you right now. It's taking things out that doctors can't take out. It's making you perfectly whole. Can you say amen? So I'm just trying to talk to him. The guys going like this.

[Assistant or Co-host]

And I said, what's going on? You have, like a nervous tick or what's happening? He said, I had arthritis in my hands locked up. I can't open or close it, and it's fine.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And then his son, when I asked, why did you come with your son?

[Assistant or Co-host]

You know, he's still in the wheelchair like he was before.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Now watch his son that's had a

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horrific injury, start moving his leg around because he. He can feel it.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Go ahead, roll it from the beginning.

[Assistant or Co-host]

Watch this guy's hand.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Pause. I'm not praying for his hand. I'm praying for his son. But if you just hang around the other boats. Didn't get a word from Jesus to go let their nets down. But hanging around Peter, that got the word.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

So much fish came in that it

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

started getting their and nets.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

You're in an atmosphere of miracles. You're in an atmosphere of faith. You're in an atmosphere of breakthrough. You're in an atmosphere of turnaround.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Does anybody remember our first billboard we took out on 376? Anybody remember what it said? Revival today. Church a home of. There hadn't been one sign or wonder.

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The church hadn't started yet.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

That's called speaking. Calling those things that are. I was so tired of hearing how miracles don't happen in America and move of God's dried up. I don't want to hear about Azusa Street. I want to hear about Pat Drive.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

I want to hear about Wataka, Texas. So I started speaking it at our church. We're not going to have some signs and wonders. It's going to be a home of signs and wonders. It's going to be a cancer free zone. It's going to be a death free zone. It's going to be an overdose free zone. And God has done. If you'll be bold enough to say it, God will be bold enough to do it. Hey,

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

from the beginning, please. Tell them.

[Testimony Participant]

I couldn't close my hand earlier. Now I can close it. I got arthritis and I. I tried to close my hand. I couldn't all day.

[Assistant or Co-host]

It.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Now you see why we have teaching. He's got a miracle, but he doesn't know how to talk yet.

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I got arthritis.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

No, you don't.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

But you're so used to saying it that even after it's gone, there's a lot of moms that after their kid got the lung regrown in their chest would still say, I have a premature baby with developmental difficulties. At some point you got to switch your confession.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

Can I tell you something?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

You're not allowed to call yourself a recovering addict anymore. I tell you as a reverend, you have recovered.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

You are a new creature.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

The old things are passed away. All things become new.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

All the women in here, you're not

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

allowed to call yourself an abuse victim.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

You are a daughter of the most high God. The abuse victim is God buried with Christ. And the you that now lives is Christ in the flesh. You're not who you used to be. You're a new creature born of God.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Hey,

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

You're on the winning side.

[Congregation Member or Prayer Leader]

The battles are real, but the battles are not yours. The battles are the Lord's and the Lord's already won. You'll never take another backward step. You're gonna do what the doctor said you can do. Everybody that prophesied your death, you'll attend their funeral. And you'll be living long after they're gone. Man does not determine how high you fly. Hallelujah.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Praise God. Play from the beginning again. You be seated.

[Assistant or Co-host]

Them.

[Testimony Participant]

I couldn't close my hand earlier. Now I can close it. I got arthritis and I. I tried to close my hand. I couldn't all day.

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I just was able.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Yeah, right there in the preacher closet. Now watch the son that has no

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motor skills realizing he can move the

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

one leg and testing. I'm not saying now, if you have faith, you'd move that leg. They're just doing it. Just like when you drink alcohol, you

[Assistant or Co-host]

feel like you can dance even though you can't dance.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Play from the beginning.

[Testimony Participant]

Tell them I couldn't close my hand earlier. Now I can close it. I got arthritis and I tried to close my hand. I couldn't all day.

[Assistant or Co-host]

I just. Yeah, right there in the preacher.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

First the blade, then the ear. Then the full corn on the ear. Love you too. Have you noticed a difference from the

[Assistant or Co-host]

first time I've seen you?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Was it.

[Assistant or Co-host]

I just was wondering, you know, why would you drive 11 hours round trip and then you guys still in the trip fair. You think you'd be mad and say, well, you know, we gave our lives to the Lord, but the rest of it didn't work. But they're happy, asked if they could see me.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

So he wants to tell that his

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son had two or three seizures a month. And hasn't had any since last February when we pray.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

And now the leg's moving. Stick around a little bit. You gave the devil 30 years.

[Assistant or Co-host]

Give Jesus a couple of months.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Let it start working in the right direction. You.

[Assistant or Co-host]

My daughter used to get crappy grades because we pulled her out of school all the time. Tell them what you made last quarter.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

No, it starts with an H. It's two words. Yes. Give it a little time. Can you imagine?

[Assistant or Co-host]

Can you imagine she'd have never made honor roll if when her grades weren't

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

good in spurs and ziggur. What's matter matter with you? And some of you had to deal with that your whole life got beat over the head every time you didn't do something right.

[Assistant or Co-host]

And there was no celebration if anything ever went right. Where'd I call you into after you made honor Ro?

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

Where?

[Assistant or Co-host]

That's right. Got her a hot pink purse at Louis Vuitton.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

I only got one kid.

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So I just spend like I got five on the one. If you say I don't need any kid should have a purse like that. That's why she's not your kid. That's why God gave her to a lunatic like me. She get yelled at everywhere for not doing right. There should be a little celebration or a big celebration for something that's done right.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth]

So some of you, and I'm not going to take a show of hands,

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had to put up with that crap growing up. See, when you get out there, you think it's ugly. You think money grows on trees. Actually, money's made out of paper. So technically it does grow on trees.

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But you know what? All of you that had to hear

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that growing, growing up your kids and grandkids aren't going to have to hear

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that because you're in God's house and God's given you a new heart and God's putting a new substance in you calling faith. And you'd be amazed. You know, just when I think I've

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spent enough money on my parents I need to buy them like Shaquille o'

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Neal level gifts who has a son

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with a speech impediment with eight sounds. There's only 26 letters in the Alphabet it and I got eight sounds I can't say right. And I come down the stairs and

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tell my mom, mom, I saw an angel. He told me, I'm going to be a preacher. How come my mom didn't go preach? You can't even talk, how you going to preach? It was never mentioned. Praise the Lord. Jonathan. My dad came home, they took me out to Long John Silver's.

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We like fine seafood in our family.

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Family.

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Man, I wish I never read any health articles. I used to enjoy eating.

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Used to order that with extra crunchies.

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Anybody ever been to Long John Silver's? They got that thing on the menu

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that they got the Alaskan day boat.

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They expect us to believe they got a boat floating into Bridgeville once a day.

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Day with fish from Alaska.

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That thing ain't been in the ocean

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since Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation.

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But you know what? As much batter as they use, you could fry an old Rebok.

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And it tastes good.

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My parents took me out to Long John Silver.

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When my dad came home, I still remember it.

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They sat me down, questioned me what

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the angel look like.

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What you say?

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He told me you. He said, jonathan, God, God has reserved

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you for this last period of time to be an evangelist, to tell people that are now in darkness to come into the light. I used to invite my friends to cooky Keys. I couldn't say ch.

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Why are you laughing? I'm pouring out my heart. You people just laugh at me. What a cruel group of people Pittsburgh is.

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I couldn't say Ch.

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I couldn't say Sam. I couldn't say my Ss, a bunch of other words. What an awful person.

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And they asked me.

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I told them what the angel told me. They said, that's good. Keep reading your Bible and God will use you.

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What if they'd discouraged me then there's

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so many freaking discouragers out there.

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3.1 million Israelites and you only had two people.

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That would encourage courage that we're able to take the land.

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So what's going to happen today? What has happened today is that faith that's come in you. It's not just going to cause you

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to say something different.

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It's gonna see. Why would Jacob say God of God, of Abraham? Because he's calling to remembrance. I saw what you did for my grandfather. What's going to happen with that little boy? Boy? If Jesus tarries and he's a grandfather one day, every one of the kids and grandkids are going to hear about how I was born premature and they said I was going to die and God put a second miracle lung in

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my body and all that.

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Karina and Tony's son's walking around taking pictures, working on media team. It goes from generation. That's why all these churches that focus on generational curses. I'm not saying they're not real, but all it takes is one person to say enough is enough. As for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. And not only are the generational curses

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broken, the curse is to the fourth generation, but the blessing is to a thousand. Be blessed in Jesus name. Be blessed in Jesus name. Hallelujah.

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The highest you thought your mother thought you'd go. The highest your father thought you'd go.

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The highest your greatest encourager thought you would go. You're going to go a hundred times past that. In Jesus name can you say amen?

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Play the video from the beginning again

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that I keep interrupting.

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Corrupting.

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Tell them I couldn't close my hand earlier. Now I can close it. I got arthritis and I. I tried to close my hand. I couldn't all day.

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I just. Yeah, right there in the preacher.

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First the blade, then the earth, then the full corn on the ear. Love you too. Have you noticed a difference from the first time I've Seen you. Well, tell me how.

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Oh, you haven't any seizures. How often would he have seizures before? Once or twice a month. And haven't had any since last year. But you know, keep getting stronger.

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Moving one leg.

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Got one more to go. Jesus in advance for a walking miracle. Jesus name I. I love you for real. Come around anytime you want.

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Now why. Why wasn't he able to just get up and walk? Cuz I'm not as powerful as I

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should be be it.

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But I'll get stronger. I used to have nobody healed of the sniffles so we're at least working our way up. It's not. Well, God, sometimes we know you as a minister. You need to walk in the power of the spirit. But I'm not going to pray for somebody because it doesn't go all the way. Well, I tried. No, keep going. Brother Brock, if you're what's give me an amount.

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You tried to bench press one time that you thought you could. You could throw up as a max and you weren't quite able to do it. And then later you could. Good God. 425. I literally work out with the bar with two fives on 15 on each end. I don't know why you're laughing. I'm not joking around.

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First time you tried. 425. Almost good. Do it. But then. Did you get. Did you. Did you do it? Did it? Did it again. You know how? You know why I was able to do it? He didn't quit going to the gym. I thought I could do it. I couldn't. You keep going. You keep pressing. Throw the bar back up again. Get stronger and hit it again.

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Hit it again. Don't stop till you get your blessing. Keep pressing, keep pushing, keep knocking. Keep speaking. Keep telling that mountain to move. Keep telling that door to come open. Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be open. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And everybody that knocks and keeps on knocking.

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The door is open. Can you say Amen?

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Stay on your feet.

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I had a message entitled 6:15 Wrong Confessions to keep believers in perpetual bondage, weakness and defeat.

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And I got to none of them

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who came for prayer. Oh, that's you.

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And put gum in. Nothing worse than getting prayed for by a preacher with bad breath. Get another piece. Praise God. Take. Take two steps forward. I'll pray for you. Put one hand on each side. Right. What's the organs that need to touch? Kidneys.

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Kidneys. Hear ye the word of the Lord

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who gave you permission to quit working.

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I command you to work. I command one of them to work and I command another one to be replaced. In Jesus name I command there to be no dialysis every.

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In Jesus name I command when you

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go to heaven at a ripe old

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age for your kidneys to not to be like a kidney of a 20 year old. In Jesus name. All your blood levels, I command them to go to normal. In Jesus name I command your strength to come back. Your vitality to come back.

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You foul disease. I command you to go and never return. You know the Bible says Jesus rebuked the fever that was in Peter's mother in law. He didn't pray for her. He.

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He talked to the fever like it was an unwanted person.

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Person. Speak to the mountain, speak to cancer, speak to a tumor, curse it, tell it to die. There's things you pray for and there's things you pray against. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And pray for this lady with the

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nice glasses and reddish top power. God's on you.

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Lift both hands, close both eyes. That current of healing like, like electric

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voltage that went into him is jumping on you. Jesus now praise God. Father, speak to me about praying for a white person so I don't look racist. Jesus now praise you Lord.

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Glaucoma and cataracts, things that attack the

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eyes, I command them to go mobility stuff. I command you to be healed.

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All of you be healed as I

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walk by these rows. I command you to be healed in Texas. I command Texas where you are. Lift your hands.

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Hands healing powers flowing through that auditorium.

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In Jesus name I command you to

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live and not die. I command you to live and not die. I command you to live and not die. I command death. Let me pray for this young lady in the brown.

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Thank you Jesus. Everybody in overflow be healed in Jesus name.

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Lift both hands, close both eyes.

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You look super healthy to look at you, but God's given you a miracle on the inside of your body right now. That's it. Go right through you. Thank you Jesus.

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Man, I wish there was a third service. I might go find some church that

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has an 1130 and just go yank the mic out of the guy's hand and preach. I already got two court cases. Might as well go for the hat trick.

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Pandare. Don't say not. That guy's watching that. Dad, I love you. I'm just using that because there's a

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lot of people like that. Quit calling it my depression.

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It's hard for God to take something

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you claim ownership of.

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Quit calling it your Arthritis.

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Your cancer belongs to the devil.

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Send it back to hell. Can you say amen?

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Jesus name go right through you. In Jesus name. Many deep seated things are being healed right now in this anointing.

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God's pulling out deep problems.

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You're not going to have to try to overcome them. They're gone. They prefer in the second row. Great adolescence, cousin. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Lift your hands as you get at the altar. Be healed someone in your family that you've got your faith out for. The Lord's touching them where they're at, far away. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. And pray for the sister of the other ones in the Navy down in Virginia. Is that your sister? Lift both hands. Close both ass

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power

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unction for service. To do what God's called you to do. In Jesus name.

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May I pray for this lady with

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the blonde hair and glasses, including. Come up that side and around if you want. Just lift your hands right there. This is an old Pentecostal line, but I felt to say it from the top of your head through the soles of your feet, down through your knees, hips, back. Pediatric vibration stuff. Jesus name be healed.

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Go ahead, sing that one time.

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Every hand lifted in Texas Every hand lifted in Pennsylvania Sweet Holy Spirit,

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Stay right here with us Keep on feeding us with your love and for all these blessings we're gonna live our hearts in praise Without a doubt we know that we've been revived when we shall leave this place oh, so we Holy Spirit, heal my sweet heaven Heavenly dumb won't you stay right Stay right here with us Keep on feeling us with your love. For all these all these blessings we're gonna lift our hearts embrace

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Without a

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doubt we know through had we been revived when we shall leave this place.

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You still moving to Atlanta?

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L. Are you still moving to Atlanta? Son of a gun. Most anointed drummer I've ever heard in my life. How may you live low on the drums? What a blessing. I was going to pray that you don't go to Atlanta, but that's kind of witchcrafty, so. Praise God. Every head bowed, every eye closed. Hey, open your eyes and look up at me. You know that song that Sister Clarita just sang? In Pentecostal Church, they'd open the altars

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up, especially on Sunday nights, and people

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would stay around and pray.

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And then the.

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The leader would kind of freelance on the keyboard and sing. And those are the kind of songs. Songs that people wrote in those kind of meetings. Like, then the. Like. I can hear the rush of angels wings. I See glory on each face. Surely the presence of Lord is in this place. All those songs like that, it just, they were like just nice songs to be in the anointing with. There's some things that if we're not careful, a new generation will never get the experience. But you're going to get the experience here. I'm not going to let it die out like just lingering in the presence of God. It's where people get called to the ministry and stuff. That's why all the Bible colleges are shutting down. Nobody gets called into the ministry because nobody gets called into the ministry. In an 80 minute service where the pastor's wife are sitting on a couch talking about having a date night. You gotta, there's a certain kind of meeting, meeting that produces that every head bowed, every eye closed. If you're here in Texas or Pennsylvania and you've never given your life to Jesus Christ, you're watching on our new TV network as well.

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I want to give you the opportunity

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to do that today. We talked about confession. I talked about confession for almost two hours. The first confession you have to make.

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Think of it, think of how powerful confession is. The thief on the cross, cross nailed to a cross, did nothing good in his whole life, Said, I believe you're the Son of God. When you go up to your father's

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home today, will you remember me? And Jesus said, surely this day you'll be with me in paradise. By your words will you be justified? By your words will you be condemned? So I want to ask you, has

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there ever been a time in your

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life where you did what that thief did?

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If not do it today, leave out of this place with a big old

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smile on your face, knowing the joy of your sins being forgiven and your

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name being written in heaven. If you say Jonathan, I need to do that today. I believe God brought me here not

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just to hear a faith charged message,

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but I mean why hear like a nice encouraging message and go to hell and basically live in hell till you get to hell. Everything always going wrong. You can have a total 180 today and, and, and walk on the path of life, have your name written in heaven, have your sins forgiven, but you have to pray it and I'm going to pray it with you in Texas and Pennsylvania. If you say Jonathan, that's me and I want to do that today. Quickly put your hand up and wave

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it at me right now.

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We're going to pray.

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I want to give my life to Jesus Christ. When you pray, I want you to

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pray with me when you pray.

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I want you to pray with me in Jesus name. In Jesus name.

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I don't want to leave out of here lost.

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I want to leave out of here

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knowing I'm born again. If everyone here is a believer, I'll pray with those that are in Texas. Lift both your hands. Those of you watching online, on tv

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say this nice and loud.

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Heavenly Father, I turn my back on sin. I believe in my hope heart you raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth Jesus is Lord

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here.

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Come closer.

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God bless you.

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Thank you for coming. All right, I want to start over. Lift both hands, close both eyes.

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Get a five yard penalty for a false start. So I'll pray back here.

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Say out loud, heavenly Father, I've come forward today to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart you raised

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Jesus from the dead.

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I confess with my mouth Jesus is

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Lord and my Savior.

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In Jesus name name. Amen.

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