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Live from Dallas | Street Preachers Podcast Tour | Philip Anthony Mitchell and Tim Timberlake
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You're listening to the Street Preachers Podcast with Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell.
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We pray you're blessed by the content you're about to receive. What's going on, family? We are here in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Make some noise. Dallas.
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Dallas street team in the house.
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Come on, dfw. Make some noise. Dfw. Come on, dfw some noise.
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Who does this on episode nine or ten? What is this? Who starts the podcast with the tour?
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I don't even know what we doing out there.
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Oh, my gosh, man. We. We are just so humbled and amazed by what God is doing through this incredible seat that God has given both me and my brother, Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell.
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What are we doing here, Tim?
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Man, We. We are here just to put a stake in the ground and declare that this is God's people and this is God's place, and we want to take this to as many cities and places as possible.
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I mean, so normally, you know, we're in New York.
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Yeah.
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In the studio. And this was your idea.
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Hey, don't. Don't blame me for this.
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And I'm just like Robin right now. No, no, not at all. But there is a lot of criticism for us doing this, for sure.
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Right.
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And there is a lot of people who are speaking evil of us for doing this. Right. They think we have ulterior motives. Like, we're driven by, like, unrighteous mammon.
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Yeah. Right. I know you, and I know you.
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Right. They don't. But why are we. Why are we out here? Like, why are we doing this?
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Because we feel like our country needs to see what biblical unity looks like in a season and in a society and a culture that's driven and fed by division. And if we as the children of God don't model and demonstrate what biblical unity looks like, and if comparison and competition creeps into the church, then the world does not stand a chance.
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Yeah. And even as you talk about unity, if you just look at this studio tonight, there is a beautiful mixture of the mosaic of the creativity of God. Right. And I'm looking at all of these beautiful black faces and white faces and Hispanic faces, and I'm reminded our creator is creative. I'm reminded that we should not exalt our skin color as a God.
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Yeah.
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Nor should we make our skin color an idol. And I think too often we persecute each other for our differences instead of seeing the genius of Christ preach making us different.
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Yeah.
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I think the world would be boring if everybody was the same color and the same person. Right. And so oftentimes, many of these are people on the other side of the camera. Right. And I even think about, like, moments we just had. Why are we out here? Because when we're in the studio, we can't touch anybody.
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That's right.
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And we can't lay eyes on anyone. And a lot of people don't know that. You and I are very interpersonal people. We. I. You know. You know, Tim and I may have, you know, substantially significant, large, whatever you want to call ministries, but I like to smell like sheep.
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Yeah.
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Personally, absolutely. I think Tim enjoys smelling like sheep. You know, I. I want to touch people. I want to look people in the eyes, I want to shake a hand. I have a conversation. I want. I don't want to be a pastor who lives in an ivory tower.
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Right.
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You know, like, we're so untouchable.
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That's right.
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You know, and. And we thank God for our studio, you know, shout out to, like, our whole studio team and some of them.
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In the room tonight.
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Yeah, Right. Like, whole squad. All of the street preachers. Shout out to all of them.
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But I think.
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I think even though this is your vision, like, sitting here in this moment, right, when you came to me with this idea, I was like, yo, Tim, this is crazy, right? We supposed to wait a year to.
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Do something like this.
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Why are we doing this? And. But even now, I'll be honest, right here in this moment, right? I'm gonna give you your flowers right now in front of everybody, right? I'm gonna do it right now because, you know, I'm thinking, like, you know, we gotta travel and do this every week and then go home and preach on Sundays and still lead staff. And Tim, how in the world we gonna do this? Our podcast is not even six months old, you know, and when you came to me with this vision, you know, obviously, we boys, I'm like, let's do it.
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Yeah.
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But in the back of my mind, I'm like, how are we going to pull this off? But. But even right now, sitting in the studio, in this moment, I want to give you a flowers. Because, like, that moment we just had with. With the street team, you know, it's beautiful. The street. Y' all know what the street team is? I do. So anybody that listen to street preachers podcast is the street team. Right? Right. We're not the only street preachers. We're all witnesses for the Lord. Jes.
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So.
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But even. Even right now, as we're sitting here in the studio recording this episode live, you know, I Want to give you your flowers, you know, because this feels good, you know? I know we can't do this always, but it feels good to be in the room with other brothers and sisters and to feel their warmth and their presence and to touch them and to lay eyes on them and to allow the Holy Spirit to move and to sing and to worship. This feels good, you know? And I know we got. I don't know how many cities we got ahead of us, but I don't know how we gonna pull this off, but we gotta travel and preach and lead meetings and all the things. But, yo, let me give you your flowers, bro. Yeah.
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Now let me. Let me give you your flowers. Let me tell you what's crazy, y'. All. Let me tell you what's crazy. Over 40,000 people gathering for prayer. Like, what are we talking about? Like, are you serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's unheard of. We were on a call before Access, and we were talking about this, and Phil goes, yo, bro. Yo, bro, we got. We got, man. He said, I'm a little overwhelmed, bro. 38,000 people responded for prayer, bro. I said, what? I said, what do you. What do you say? He said, 38,000 people. And I said, bro, that's not being done. And I think that when moments like that and this happen, we can't just push past that like, it's normal, Like. Like it happens every week, Heck, every year. You know what I'm saying? That is a catalytic moment that we need to be in awe and amazed at Jesus for allowing us to experience. And so thank you. Thank Lena, thank the whole team of 28, 19, all of the digital disciples, all of the family in Atlanta that stewarded that sacrifice, that made access 20, 25 happen. So Dallas Street Team, come on, can we praise Jesus for what he did in that moment? It was phenomenal. Yeah. So that's. That's where we want to start. What in the world led you to start and pioneer something so monumental around prayer?
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Yo, shout out to my man right here with the Access shirt.
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Got the Access shirt on, man.
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That's what I'm talking about, bro. Oh, he got the we in the spirit.
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It's got the black sheep hat on, too.
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Come on, man. So, to be honest, you know, to be honest, bro, I think across the nation and around the world, I think when people think 2819 or where they think Pam, they think proclamation, right? And I think my name is more attached to proclamation than anything else, Right? But, Tim, you know me. That preaching is not even the strongest part of my ministry, right? The strongest part of my ministry is what people don't see. It's my prayer life. I would rather be in my prayer room than on a platform, right? I get more joy being alone with Jesus than preaching or being on a platform. And I love prayer. And not because I'm super disciplined, but because I'm super needy.
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Say that again, bro.
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I love prayer not because I'm super disciplined, but because I'm super needy. I am intimately acquainted with my weaknesses and my desperation for the presence of the Lord. And so I think when we are prayerless, we are prideful. And when we are prayerless, we tell God we could do things in our own strength and we cannot. You will never be greater than your prayer life. And a powerful believer is a praying believer. And a lot of you, I don't know if you noticed, but my parents are immigrants from Trinidad, and I was the first person in my family born in the US and my family has a legacy of prayer, right? Like, I don't know if y' all know about Caribbean people. They pray.
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Yeah, boy.
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Right, Priscilla? Like, Caribbean people, they pray. I mean, they gotta believe God for food on the table. And so I've come from a line, a generation of prayer that. That brings me more. More joy than anything. I'll slip away right now and go in a corner and start praying. And my parents followed me out of New York to North Carolina, then out of North Carolina all the way to Georgia. And my parents had a house like it was no bigger than this stage. Literally, it was like 800 square foot house. And on Wednesday nights, it would be my wife and I, my man Kenny over there. And like, maybe eight of us would come into the house on Wednesday nights and we would pray from 7 to 8. Every single Wednesday night from 7 to 8. And we just had a rhythm of just praying. Every Wednesday night from 7, we would come together and pray. We was trying to start a ministry at the time, and we just was asking God for help. And then one day I was in Acts, and there is a scene in Acts, this beautiful scene where these two apostles go up to the temple for the scripture says, the hour of prayer, right? And I hijacked that and I said, man, we're gonna. We're gonna keep an hour of prayer going. And then I named it Access. Because that's what we have in prayer. We have access. We have a direct line to God. And I think too often we take that line for granted. We think God owes us access.
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Yeah, right.
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Preach. We are entitled in America, in which we think God owes us access to his presence. A holy God, if he wanted to, cannot listen to the prayers of human beings on the earth. He does not have to do that.
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Come on.
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But it's only because of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, right? I want you to know Christ was slain before the first century. He was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. So his blood, before you was born, gave us access to the Father, and we should never take that for granted, right? And so we started having this thing called access. And it was small, bro. It grew no bigger than maybe 25, 30 of us. And I remember I said one day, I said, man, one day, I just believe God. We're gonna fill an arena for access. And my daughters was telling me yesterday, they said when I would say that, they would be so embarrassed, right? They were like, why are you always saying that in front of the church? There's 20 people in this church, you know, and my daughter, her name is Israel. One of them. My oldest daughter, name is Israel. And she would. She know. She was small. And she told me the other day when I would say that she would be embarrassed. She was like, yo, stop talking like that in front of the churches. The church is all the 25 of us, and it's six of us make up the church. And the other rest of them is, you know, we amongst the 25, right? It's 25 of us. And our church started in a small cafeteria, no bigger than this room, and it was like 25 people. And I would say, one day we're going to do access in an arena. And my daughter would be so embarrassed, and people look at me like I was crazy. But my father, when I started the ministry, and you and I, you know, we had. We shared this testimony together. Your father's in glory and my father's in glory. So they. They're not here to see what God did with us, right? And before he died, he said to me, my church was. It was three months old. He said to me, he said, no matter what you do, promise me you'll keep an hour of prayer going and you won't stop, right? Enough. Dang it. He's not even here to see. He not even here to see. He's not even here to see, see, because, you know, his body was just gripped with cancer cells, and he was on his back. And he promised. Promise me you will keep an hour of prayer going. And so we just. I kept my word to him, right?
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And.
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And for 12 years. That's why you can't. You have to be persistent.
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Yes.
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When God has put something in your heart.
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Yes.
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And you can't put God on your timetable. You just gotta be persistent. Right. He said, if you would just be faithful and don't be wary and well doing, you will reap if you faint. Not in the season. And for 12 years, Tim, for 12 years, we kept that hour of prayer. 10 people, 25 people, 50 people. For 12 years, until October 12, 2025.
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Come on, man.
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Went over 40,000. When over 40,000 disciples from across the nation and around the world came together with no propaganda, no celebrities, no big bands, no big worship teams, no big preachers, no big names. The only name was Christ. And we said, we're gonna rally around him. We're gonna rally around him for one hour of prayer, and then we're gonna seal that hour of prayer with an hour of worship. And people came from all across the United States. They came from the continent of Africa, that came as far away as Australia. And I think even as I'm sitting here talking to you, I think this can segue into something I think we need to talk about is not only 40,000 people show up for prayer. I mean, the State Farm arena was full. And then the Georgia World Congress, and it was full. But even when people could not get in to both the arena and the Congress, and they took over the streets and they went around the corner to Centennial Olympic park, and they took over the park, and they was in the street laying hands on each other and having Bible studies and white people praying with black people and Asian people praying with Hispanic people, and they're holding each other's babies. Come on. This is what, like, it's Kingdom, right? It's not one race above another. Was Kingdom. And it was out there loving on one another. And they was going to the store and holding each other's places in line and giving each other water. And what we saw was the beautiful. Because. No, this is important because just two weeks before that, we saw the ugliness of humanity on full display when a family lost a husband tragically for the whole world to see, right? So we see the ugliness and the depravity of human beings. But on that day, we saw the beauty of Christ in us together. Come on, anybody. We saw the beauty of Christ in us together.
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Right?
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That we have. We have more in common than what separates us. And we saw people loving on each other in the streets. I saw white women holding black babies and Hispanic people holding Indian Babies. And they was. They was forming friendships on the line and bonds, and the people didn't get in. They put their hands on the side of the arena. They was praying outside. And I went outside.
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Yeah.
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And I walked through the crowds and I prayed and laid hands on people. And it was. And it was beautiful. Right. And it was powerful. But. But, Tim, I think it speaks to something else, though. The fact that 40,000 people showed up to pray has less to do with Pam.
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Yeah.
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And more to do with the fact that there is a new hunger in Earth 100. I think we should talk about that. I feel that there is a. There is a hunger in the earth. It's almost like people are frustrated with the nonsense. Right. They're tired of drinking from wells that are toxic and putrid. We're searching for truth and searching for authenticity. Right. And. And I think the more. The more we sense that time is running out.
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Right.
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Like. Like there's a clock on Tim and I.
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Right.
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The time we have together tonight is counting backwards. It's going to come to an end in the same way God put a clock on humanity.
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Yeah.
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And the closer we get to the return of Christ. I think what the spirit of God is doing, Tim, and I want you to talk to this because you've seen this at your church. Your church is experiencing revival. There's revival at my church. You know, I think the spirit of God is stirring up a hunger. Right. A hunger for Christ, a hunger for authentic Christianity. I think people are vomiting from all the nonsense, and I think souls are searching. I mean, what do you feel?
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The same way I do, and I want to address that. But before I do, I want to say to you, while we're talking about access, because, you know, let me just say this about my brother. After a moment, like access, he'll shut off, like, social media. He won't be, you know, online and all that stuff. So he doesn't read a lot of the stuff that people say. I'm his brother and, you know, God is still working on me. And you a street preacher. I'm a street preacher, and there's still a lot of street in this preacher. And so I'm. I'm. I'm seeing the stuff. And, and let me just say this. And pastors, you say, when you say.
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Stuff, you talking about negative comments.
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Yeah. And. And pastors, not people. Pastors still have something negative to say. Let me just talk to the pastors that are listening that has something negative to say. Shut up. Just let me give you the word of The Lord. Find a seat, sit down, open up your word, humble yourself, get before the face of Jesus, and maybe you will experience the hand of God on your life, like my brother and sister are experiencing on their life. But it doesn't happen from you hating and so.
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Stop that.
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Go get help. Go talk to somebody about that. That's not of God. That's of the devil. And you got the nerve to call yourself pastor? Shame on you. Go sit down. Now that we got that out the.
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Way, revival, am I allowed to ask what they saying?
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Yes. Yeah. No, no, he is. He is. Because we go have this conversation in front of you.
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I mean, Jesus said to disciples, like, who do men say that? I am?
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Absolutely. So I ain't been online, so I've.
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Been trying to enjoy what I did. I don't.
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So people. People complaining.
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You've been watching, too.
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You've been. Can. You know, he know. People complaining, saying, you know, all this hype and all this stuff, this has been done many, many times, and all this stuff, this is nothing special. You know, it might be free for people, but there are people paying for it behind the scenes. And.
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And listen, hold on, hold on. Wait a second.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I want to go on record, right?
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Yes, sir. Okay. Let me.
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Let me. Can I can. I need to address that 100. All right? I say this with all humility, okay? You know me. This dude right here know me. I am not a money man, and I'm not moved by money. Ain't nobody not gonna dangle no carrot in front of me to make me do nothing 100%. Like, I'm. No, I'm. I'm serious. I mean, let me just say this, because people think they know me, and they do not.
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Okay?
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For me, a platform, a stage, access. That's never going to be my greatest reward.
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Yeah, right.
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My reward is going to be the crown I lay down at the feet of my savior. Right? And. And for all that talk about. Bro, can I just. I need to just be transparent here. All right, so let's stop.
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Go there.
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We put up.
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We want all the smoke, foot on the pedal, and there is no break.
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All right? So the local Disciples and the Digital disciples of 2019, who support the spread of the gospel, I say we together, we put up $1.2 million to do access. $1.2 million for an hour of prayer, did not charge anyone to go into the arena and did not take up an offering.
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Say that last part.
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Okay? Did not charge anyone to come into the arena and did not take up an offering. If I was. Had ulterior motives.
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Come on, man.
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And I know there's 40,000 people, 20,000 in one room, and 20,000 in the room next door and thousands outside. I could have easily said, well, man, look, let's sow into this moment right here. I didn't do that. And I didn't do that not because it's not right to sow. Sowing is appropriate. But I felt like that moment was not the moment to ask anybody for anything.
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Yeah.
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I just wanted us to pray and worship, and we absorbed the cost for that. And the weight of that is on the weight of the disciples and the Digital Disciples of 2019. We paid for that so brothers and sisters can pray and not have to worry about no money. So all that talk about who did what behind the scenes, that's lies, bro. Yeah, that's lies. And we don't get a chance to defend ourselves. I was telling somebody in the back, right?
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Like.
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Bro, you still gotta pray for me, right? Because I still got a lot of hood in me, right? And sometimes, you know, there's a little bit of retaliatory spirit might be in there, like, because I'm used to fighting back. And sometimes it's difficult when the Lord tell you keep quiet when people malign you absolutely. And say all manner of evil about you. And they. They say all manner of evil and they show up and they. They do all kind of things, and the Lord don't give you no grace to defend yourself in public. That's not always easy when you can't. Especially when people say things that's categorically not true.
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Right. Right.
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And your only defense is fruit.
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Yeah. Say that again.
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Your only defense is fruit.
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That's it.
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And time. And then believing that God will either vindicate you in this life or he'll vindicate you in the world to come.
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Yeah.
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You know, sometimes fruit is stronger than a fight.
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Come on, bro. Come on.
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I don't even know who that's for. Like, sometimes I feel fruit is. Is stronger than a fight. Like, I. I could get on there and box with people in the comments.
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Yeah, right. You leave that to me. Every. Every Paul has to have a Peter. Come on, somebody. I will cut you.
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I will.
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I will pray for you later.
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We probably need to navigate away from this, because I don't want to know what else they're saying, because then I'm gonna get on my soapbox and I'm start. I might drift into the flesh.
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All right, so back to Back to revival. Let me say this. You know, we, we pray for revival, but we don't really, bro. Yeah, it's. Don't worry. I got you, bro. I got you. We, we in them digital streets. We're going to clean it up.
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But you know, the beautiful. But hey, hey, no, let me, let.
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Me share this about our conversation. So this is for transparency. So before, before any of this.
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We should love one another better though, bro. You know, I got four kids.
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Yeah.
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And my wife and I adopted a 19 year old, so we have five teenagers. And one of the things that bothers me, I never told you this. Right. One of the things I hate sometimes, like when my kids is growing up, I'll be in my room and I hear two of them in another room fighting and persecuting each other, calling each other out their name. And I'm, I'm up there and my heart is grieved listening to them talk like that. I'm like, y' all came from the same. Why y' all talking to each other like that, right? And I'm a, I'm an earthly man. And if it bothers me, yeah. Hear my earthly children talk about each other.
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Like, come on, bro.
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Like, do we not think it bothers the father to his children constantly bickering with one another all the time? Like that got to bother the father. And this is why, like in John 17. John, chapter 17. Priscilla checked me. Because you're the resident theologian right now.
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That's right. In house theologian, John.
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Check me, priscilla. John, chapter 17. The unanswered prayers of Jesus Father, let them be one.
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Yeah, right.
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Like he prays for unity and we're still not there yet.
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You know, there's.
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And, and, and, you know, only immature people say everything that they feel.
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Yeah.
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And some people, they use social media to make their ignorance palpable. Like, we know you're ignorant because of the things you say when you post. You'll be better off being ignorant and not post. Come on, Be mad and pray.
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Come on.
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Or hate somebody. And don't put that on social media.
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Right?
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Because too many people, they comment and then we see the ignorance is made palpable. And while social media is a dynamic tool for the spread of the gospel, I also feel like it has given platforms to fools and has given voices to people who should not be heard.
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Let me, Let me just drop this.
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Agree with that.
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Let me drop this right here.
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John chapter 17.
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Is that right? People, People have. Let me, Let me rephrase it. Certain people have no faithful confession because they're too fleshly with comments. And it's not until that part again. People have no faithful confession sometimes because they have too fleshly of comments. And they react instead of respond. And instead of praising Jesus for what he's doing through another man or woman of God, they would rather tear them down because they want to be in the position without knowing the weight and the burden that you carry so that other people can see the actual fruit that God is producing through you. So we. We talked about this before, and. And Phil told me how much was gonna cost, and I was like, bro, you sure? He said, bro, God checked me. Remember this? He said I was going to do it next year. And the Holy Spirit checked me, said, do it this year. I said, well, he will provide with three months. Three months preparation.
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We had to believe God three months to prepare, to prepare for that.
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And so, you know, oftentimes we pray for revival, but we don't expect nor do we desire to see death. And so what a lot of people want is restoration, because restoration is taking something that is still alive, maybe weathered and tethered, and having God restore it. But when we say we're hungry for revival, it has to be death first. Something has to die.
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Yo, Biggie said something got to die.
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Something got.
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Something got to die.
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Oh, you own street preachers.
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Come on, man.
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Street Team Dallas Street.
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Come on. Y' all know. Y' all know it.
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But when we.
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Something has to die.
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Where we are as a country, where we are as the Westernized church, we're praying for revival, but we're still holding on to what's half alive.
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Half truth.
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Half religion, half of what was. But we can't let it go because we're afraid of what might be. And it's not until we release it and let it go and say, okay, God, that is the past, that is old, that is dead, that we receive something so beautiful that can only be birthed through death. And that's where true revival happens.
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So let's. Let's lean into that just a second for. Let's talk about. I think what happened at Access. That is a sign of revival. I think revival is happening all across the country. Yes, but what about personal revival, right? There are people in the room, you know, somebody watching right now, right, who feel like I'm far away from God. My prayer life is not strong. I'm not hearing him. I feel dry. Like, what type of death does it take for personal revival? What kind of things have to die for people to experience personal revival? I'll Start with just pride, rebellion. You could jump in anytime you want, you know, love of sin.
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Yeah. I think one of the greatest blessings that God has ever allowed me to experience is the wilderness.
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The wilderness where you go to die. Yeah.
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Where there is nothing else there. There is no entrapment stairs. There is nothing. And if he doesn't show up there.
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Yeah.
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There is nothing left.
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I think too many times we run from those kind of seasons we do where we feel God has us in the wilderness.
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We're so comfortable being comfortable.
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Yeah. And I think sometimes we're there and we're praying to get out. Instead of praying, God, do something in me while I'm in there. I think there is an escapism in Western Christianity when we're discomfort, we want to get out of that discomfort very quick. And sometimes I've learned, Tim, you've learned that some of the greatest work God has done in my life has been in those wilderness places.
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Yeah.
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Those valleys, those difficult things where he'll take things from us that we didn't want to lay down. Right. He'll crucify things in us that we was carrying. He'll make us carry across. As you mature, as I've matured, we kind of look back on some of those seasons and we learn to thank God for some of those wilderness seasons. I think the mature believer thanks him for mountaintops and valleys. We thank him for joys and sorrows. And I think some of you, even in the audience, if you would be honest and look over your shoulders, some of the things that God has used to perfect your character the most was not comfort. Yeah. It was pain. It was what you perceived as disappointment, hurt, betrayal, abandonments, things that you would never think God would use to make you stronger and wiser and better. A painful divorce you went through, a friend that left you. You know, I think some of the things that we would want to tear out of the pages of our story, God has used those things to perfect your character and build your faith and mold you into the person you are. And as you grow, you learn to look back over your shoulder and say, God, that was really painful, but I thank you for it.
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Now.
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You know, I was scarred in that season, but I thank you for it now. I shed buckets of tears in that season, but I thank youk for it. Now, some of you, you're strong because of what you went through, and you don't even look like what you've been through. You don't even smell like smoke. Right. And I don't know, I was having this moment the other day. I was in the park and I was praying. I was like, God, thank you for all of the hardships, pain and suffering you allowed me to go through. You did something in my character that allowed me to be able to steward what I'm doing right now that if. If God would have trusted me what he's trusting me with right now five years ago, I would have fumbled this back.
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Yeah, right.
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And sometimes God is putting you through something because he's setting you up for something you can't see, you know, and he has to do something in you before he releases it into your life. You believe in God for something, but if he gave it to you right now, you'll ruin it. And so he has to do something in you first. So the Holy Spirit be clocking your t all the time.
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Absolutely. That's it.
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Anybody know what that feel like when the Holy Spirit be clocking your t, conviction and pain, you be praying, God, get me out. And he said, no, stay right there.
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Absolutely, and won't allow you to leave. I remember, man, I was in a season where I was praying, bro, and it seemed like everything I was praying was arriving opposite of what I was praying for.
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Unpack that, bro.
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I was praying for peace, and it seemed like chaos just broke out everywhere. And I was so confused. And I would cry and ask, God, God, what in the world? He said, I'm giving you what you asked for. I would pray, God, help me love people more. And it seemed like the season of so many enemies and adversaries would just rise up. And I would say, God, I'm not praying for this. Why aren't you giving me what I'm praying for? And he said, I am giving you what you're praying for. And I would say, okay, God, make me a resource for people. Make me a person of generosity. And my finances would be attacked. And I would say, God, this is not what I prayed for. And he said, it is what you pray for. And everything that I prayed for, it arrived. But it arrived differently than how I expected. I expected it to arrive here. And God said, no, it's going to arrive here. And everything that we expect and anticipate God to do, do, he does not always do because he does not live up to our expectations. He lives up to his word. That's what makes Ephesians chapter 3, verse 20 so powerful. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding and abundantly. And above all that we could ask or think according to the power that is at work in us, If God lives up to our expectations, he can exceed them. And so sometimes what arrives is not what we want, but it is what we need. And that is where I want to be.
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I want to add something to what Tim said. Since you're talking about Ephesians, let's just sit on Paul for just a second.
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Yeah.
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I feel this in my spirit for somebody. I don't know who this is for, but I feel like there's somebody right now in the studio. You're in a very difficult season, and it's painful, and you feel like you're in a trial. Somebody in the room and. I know, right? But Paul wrote to the church in Philippi, and he wrote this letter about joy while he was in a Roman prison. And there is a small detail in the text that Paul wrote that we like to read past. And I'm going to give you the Philip Anthony Mitchell translation.
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Come on, give us the Pam translation.
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Yeah. Paul said that some of the trials you're in has been. Watch this word in the text granted to you.
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Come on.
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As a gift. Selah. It means pause and think about that.
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Yeah.
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Paul says some of the things that you're going through has been granted to you.
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Yeah.
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Some of the trials have been given to you as a gift from God. And whoever I'm talking to in this room, maybe when you leave here tonight, your prayer is not God. Why? And get me out, Lord, let me feel your presence while I'm in this. And watch. This is a mature prayer. And whatever I'm supposed to learn while I'm in this, reveal that to me while I'm in this. Right. See, because pain and trial is inevitable, but how you respond to it determines character. You can either let it be a coffin that buries you or a classroom that teaches you.
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Yeah.
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And I. I've. I've come to a place in my life. If I'm gonna go through something that makes me cry, pain needs to pay me. You are a fool to go through something painful and not come out with some kind of payment. It should pay you wisdom. Should pay you strength. It should pay you intimacy with God. It should keep you on your knees. Like, if you're gonna go through, let it pay you something.
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Yeah.
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Come out of that with something. And I don't even know who. There's a sister over here crying. I need to touch her. You. Are you going through something right now? It's heavy. It's painful. You get tired. Can we just take a pause real quick, like.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It's our podcast Right?
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It's our podcast. We do whatever.
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Yo, come here. Hey, Tyler, just. K.J.
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Y' all get behind her.
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Just. Just keep the cameras on. It's our podcast. We could do what we want. Just. Just come right here. Just stand right here. This is for you. We family, right? Y' all stretch our hand towards her. This is why we on tour. It makes sense to me now. I'm gonna kneel down right here. Just can't do this in the studio. Father God, this is your daughter. We lean into her pain. We pray, God, there will be a shift from her shoulders to yours. She would release these heavy burdens. God, I pray in this moment she would know that she is seen, she is loved, and she's not forsaken. I pray you will silence the voice of the lion enemy. And we don't pray that she would come out before time. Rather, we pray you would give her strength in her inner man with might, by the power of the Holy Spirit, she would know that you are walking with her through this valley. And everything she sees there are only shadows. I pray she would feel comforted right now that you would give her grace to endure all the way until you pull her out. These hands that she feels on her right now, these are the hands of Jesus through men, saying, my daughter, I touch you. I love you. I'm with you. Change her perspective tonight. Give her renewed strength to walk all the way through until you bring her out. I pray this over her and the things I'm not smart enough to pray because I don't know the circumstance. We ask God in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
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That's okay.
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It's okay.
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It's okay.
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It's all right. It's okay. Gotta get out on the other side. Be encouraged, okay? Encouraged. With the Nora. We had our time, right?
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We got five minutes.
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I mean, we just. We're just in the spirit right now. We in the river.
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Just let me say this. This is why nights like this are so important. And so for those questioning, should you come to another city, press in, do whatever you got to do to be here, be in rooms like this, because I truly believe that the Holy Spirit is going to meet us. And this isn't for recording. This is for us to encounter the true and living presence of an almighty savior. I believe right now, in this moment, whether you're in this room, whether you're watching, whether you're online, or whether you're listening right now, that healing is happening. I feel it. By the power of the Holy Spirit, guidance are lifting right now right across.
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This camera, right across this audio. The spirit of God is meeting you right where you are, right there.
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So wherever you are right there, whatever you're going through right there, led at the feet of Jesus right there.
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Somebody's listening to this audio right now. And wherever you are, the spirit of God is meeting you right there in your car. You might need to pull over, you're walking, you might need to sit down. The spirit of God is ministering to you right there where you are. You're watching this on YouTube. The spirit of God is ministering to you right where you are. He's not limited to space and time. He's not trapped in a studio. Maybe you need to just reach out and touch the screen by faith. Maybe you need to just stop wherever you want, just kneel wherever you are, by faith, like, just let the spirit of God just minister to you right where you are. Right where you are. Tim, I feel like you should just speak healing across the camera and across this audio. Just declare it, Tim.
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I pray for an infusion of faith.
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Right now.
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God, that you would infuse our family, your sons, your daughters, the street team, wherever they may be right now in the world, whatever circumstance they may feel trapped in, whatever bondage they may may feel held by right now. I thank you God that you are breaking us free. Your word says, God, that where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So God, we declare and decree that.
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Where we are, God, there you are.
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There is freedom, there is liberty, there is chain breaking power yoke, destroying, anointing. God, we thank you right now that you are the only one that can pull us out of the muck and the mire. And so right now we depend on you. What we cannot do, we thank you God that you're doing right now in Jesus name.
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So if you're watching this episode of the Street Preachers podcast, we want to thank you for tuning in, want to thank you for listening, want to thank you for being a part of our street team. If this ministry is being a blessing to you in any way, you can be a help to us by just sharing it with someone, letting someone know we're just doing this to spread the gospel and minister to as many people as possible. And we're going to encourage you to join us in our next city for the next episode of the Street Preachers podcast. On behalf of myself, Philip Anthony Mitchell and my host, co host Tim Timberlake, we're about to take some time to minister to the people in the room. We're going to shut off the cameras. We want you to know that we love you and we'll see you in your city when we get there. Amen.
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We pray you are blessed by this content and this episode. We want to thank our street team for following us on this journey when I ask that you continue to share like subscribe as we endeavor to continue to bring you the word of God.