Believe for maximum results and the highest level attainable maximum results and the highest level

attainable.
Not many Christians believe for maximum results. Most Christians are happy to win a few, lose a few. I'm
not. I never have been. it mattered to me whether we win or lose. I don't want to play on a losing team.
I like playing for a winning team
I found this verse in the early years of my Christianity I came to the Lord in 1969. and shortly after that as I
began to
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study the Bible because I had not never studied it before knew very little about
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the Bible and one of the first scriptures that I discovered
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not the first but one of the first is right here in second Corinthians chapter
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2 and verse 14 and it made an impact on my life and it's continued to do so all
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these years it says now thanks be unto God
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which always everybody shout always let your neighbor and say the word is
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always thanks be unto God which always causes
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us to Triumph in Christ
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how can you get that it's the will of God for us to win a few lose a few
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out of that verse now I'm assuming that always means in
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Denver what it means in Texas always means no exceptions
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thanks be unto God which always causes us to Triumph in Christ Jesus I found
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another translation that said God is always in the process of causing us to
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be triumphant you may not be triumphant at the moment
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but you're in the process of being triumphant and if you won't quit God
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will see to it that you will Triumph Hallelujah can you say Amen
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that was weak and you say Amen so right here in this very verse if I
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didn't say another word or give you another verse that proves that maximum
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is potential our maximum is available amen
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why because maximum means the highest level attainable and always being
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triumphant there's not anything higher than that always look at your neighbor
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and say always say it again always now you might be
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thinking well I know people that are not always triumphant and maybe you'd say and I haven't always been
triumphant
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well maybe you never thought of it in the way that we're talking about it today my attitude is if God didn't
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he shouldn't have put it in my copy of the book because once I found it I'm going for it
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I may be small but I got a bulldog tenacity and I don't quit until I
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amen and you know anybody that you ask anybody that knows me well quitting is
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never an option in my life I settled that 54 years ago when I accepted the call to
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preach and I read the the very first verse that I read in the Bible
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was if you continue in my word you will be my disciple indeed you will know the
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truth and the truth will make you free and the spirit of God spoke to me and said son that's the missing
ingredient
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in your life you've always been a good starter but you've never been a good finisher and if you don't
develop the
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art of continuing then you'll never be the man I want you to be the preacher I want you to be the husband I
want you to
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be the father I want you to be he said make the decision right now that
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quitting is no longer an option amen so I'd like to present to you that
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my name is Jerry having done all the standstill so they'll
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quitting is not an option amen quitting is not an option and I've
Quitting
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had a lot of opportunity to quit dear Lord you don't live by faith for 54
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years and not have opportunities to give up turn back you know holler Uncle you
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know I mean I don't want to play no more no no you you live by faith you will
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have opportunities to quit but you have to settle that once and for all
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and if you don't settle it soon you're going to you're going to find out that the world we live in is not going
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to get any better so you might as well settle it right now that from this day forward quitting is no longer an
option
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in my life I will continue not only that but I will Triumph in Jesus name amen
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look at somebody and tell them it may not look like it right now
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but I am in the process of being triumphant and let's go ahead and give the Lord a
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good shout of Praise over it amen Hallelujah amen so thanks be unto God which always
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causes us to Triumph now let me give you a a an assignment
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look in your Bible and particularly the New Testament and and look in your concordance if
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necessary and look up the words always every and all
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always every and all and if it doesn't cause you to become

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maximum minded then I don't know if there's any help for you
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always every and all for instance I wrote down some I want to read to you
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both from the Old Testament and the New Testament and remember now when you see the word every all
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and always that's talking about no exceptions
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maximum results so let me just read some to you
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Psalm 20 verses 1-5 it says the Lord hear thee send thee help from the
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sanctuary remember all thy offerings fulfill all thy counsel fulfill all thy
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petitions the New Living Translation says make all your plans succeed
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make all your plans succeed how many of you would like to have all of your plans succeed
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well if the Bible says that he will do that then why settle for anything less
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you know we live in a society today that settles for far less and we live in a
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society today that Christians settle for far less than they're entitled to
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thank you for your enthusiasm I'm just the kind of person that I tend
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to go all out I've always been that way and particularly after I came to the
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Lord baptized in the Holy Spirit and began to learn his word I thought well why settle for anything less than
God's
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best and God's best is having all my plans succeed God's best is having all my
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offerings remembered the Lord said to me years ago he said son I never forget a
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seed song and boy that that spoke volumes to me
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he said you forget seed soon but I never forget seeds on and then sometime later
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something happened to me where he he proved that to me and I may have shared
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this here before but if I had forgive me it's my sermon if I have already shared it I want to
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hear it again several years ago uh Jesse Duplantis and
Catch The Spirit Of Revival
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I were doing meetings all across the country we called him catch the spirit of Revival and we had rented an
auditorium in
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Augusta Georgia for a three-day meeting and Jesse did I
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just just preach back to back in those services and so we flew there a day early just to
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have some fellowship and get settled in and everything and so when we arrived in Augusta and got
checked in our hotel we
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and so uh somebody at the front desk told us about some good restaurants on
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the river so Carolyn and myself and Jesse and Kathy we all walked out in the parking
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lot and to get to the river and the restaurant she had to go down some steps uh
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that walkway that was lungs running parallel with the river so we walked down and found this restaurant
they
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recommended had a wonderful meal had good time of fellowship and then we were starting back to the
hotel
Brother Jerry
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and Jesse and I were up front talking and Carolyn and Kathy were talking about something and Kathy
asked Jesse to come
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back and wanted him to share something with Carolyn so I I just turned around
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and was watching them talk for a little bit and I thought well I'll just go ahead and wait for him at the steps
up
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to the parking lot so I went on by myself and when I got to the top of the steps
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there was a little girl ran across the parking lot and came running right to me
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and grabbed me around the legs and was crying and said brother Jerry brother Jerry God told me this
would happen God
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told me this would happen and I kind of pushed her back a little bit and I said well sweetheart who are you
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she said my mama brought me and my brothers from Boston to be in this
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meeting with you and brother Jesse and she said and my my mother spent all the money she had our car
has
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been breaking down all the way from Boston and it broke down again out here
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on the street and mama is crying and she said I don't have any more money and I
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don't know what we're going to do and she said well Mama let's pray and
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ask God to send brother Jerry to us he used to work on cars
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she said well sweetheart it's not likely he brought his tools with him you know he didn't come to work on
cars to come
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to preach she said well Mama you told us that Jesus said what things whoever you
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desire when you prayed believe you receive them and you shall
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have them she said I know sweetheart but I don't want you to get your hopes up too high it's not likely that
we'll even
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see brother Terry she said well Mama I'm going to pray and ask God to bring him to us anyway
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and Mama just laid her head on the steering wheel and started crying and about that time I come up on the
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parking lot that little girl saw me jumped out of the car and took off running mama don't even know she's left
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the car yet and she's telling me this story and so I said well let's go talk to Mama so I
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walked the little girl over to to the car and Mama's got her head on the steering wheel just just ball in I'm in
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crying and I tapped her on the shoulder and I said hi Mama
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she looked up and said I don't believe it I said your daughter did
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she said brother Jerry we came here from Boston to hear you and
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brother Jesse and and I've spent all the money I had trying to keep this car running I said don't worry about
it I
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said I have some very close friends here in Augusta and I'll call them and ask them about a shop that we
can send your
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car to and I said and don't don't be concerned about it whatever it costs I
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will pay for it okay well about that time I didn't know Jesse had walked up behind me and he tapped me on
the
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shoulder and he said you're not getting all that blessing I'm paying for half of it
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I said well Mama me and Jess are going to split the cost and she cried again and I said now where are you
folks
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staying she said we don't have any place to stay I don't have any money I said well this is the hotel that is
the
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headquarters hotel for this meeting and I'll call one of my staff and arrange to get you and your family a
room and don't
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worry about the cost I will pay for it you're going to be my guest to Jesse tap me on the shoulder you're not
getting
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all that blessing I'm paying for half of it I said Mama me and Jesse are going to cover the cost of it and then
I told the
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kids I said no when you get checked in if you get hungry they have a menu in
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the room and you just call the number on that menu and order whatever you want and they'll bring it to the
room and
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I'll pay for it Jesse said I'm paying for half of it I said Jessie's paying
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for half of it those kids have never been in a hotel in their life I mean they're have they're having the time of
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their life and we're covering it we're covering the cost of it okay and then I
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said now we will arrange for you to get over to the convention center one of our staff will take you there
we're going to
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put you right on the front row we're going to treat you like royalty this week anybody that would come all the
way
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from Boston to Georgia to hear me and Jesse preach we're going to treat you

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like royalty okay and we did now not one time did I say now Lord
Be mindful to be a blessing
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I hope you're watching what I'm doing and I'm believing for a return on this
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giving I was not even thinking about a return all I'm thinking about is being a
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blessing to this family amen the Bible says from the writings of
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the Apostle Paul in Galatians he says be mindful to be a blessing in the
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Amplified it says that be mindful to be a blessing and I'm just I'm just
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endearing to be a blessing I'm not looking for a reward from it
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and then after the meeting was over they they got her car repaired we gave him
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money to get back home on I asked my daughter who was traveling with me in that meeting get their
number check on
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them make sure they got home and let me know about it and so when we got home Jesse went to New
Orleans Carol and I
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went back to Fort Worth when I got home I had a monthly meeting I called back to
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the basics where people would come from all over to our headquarters and we'd have a Friday night
meeting
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and I was in that meeting and when I got through I told the people forgive me for not sticking around and
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shaking hands with you and talking with you but I have a call that I have to
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make to my directors in Nairobi and I told him I'd call him just as soon as I got out of this service one of my
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associates going to pray and dismiss you and I'll see you next month so as I was walking out can I walk
down
The Center Owl
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here as I'm walking out there's a center owl in our Auditorium and as I'm walking out I got about as far as
this man right
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here and a man reached up and grabbed my hand and he put a note in my hand and he just
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whispered because my associate was spread he said read this and call me
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I said okay so I went on to my office and made the call to my doctor in Ruby
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and Carolyn not home and she was teaching with Lynn Hammond up in
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Minneapolis and so after I got through with that call it was after midnight I went home
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and I put my Bible briefcase in my study and I went to bed I looked all over you
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know for a honeydew list couldn't find one Hallelujah so I thought what am I going to do in
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the morning I'm here for the weekend all by myself that's rare so I thought I'm going to get on my
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motorcycle I'm gonna ride to San Antonio visits with friends of mine have lunch with them and then right
back
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home and so the next morning I got up
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about six o'clock went into the kitchen made me a cup of tea and I'm sitting
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there at the table and I've remembered that note that man gave me so I went to my study and got it
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out of my briefcase and it said brother Jerry I know you like Corvettes
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if you're interested I'd like to buy you a brand new one call me
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I looked in my watch it was 6 15. I thought well I don't want
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to wake him up so at 6 20 I called him and he said
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I've been waiting all night for you to call me what took you so long I didn't explain to him that I I just read
that
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note and he said uh I I have a dealership in
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Dallas how long will it take for you to get here I said Well normally where you're
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located probably at least an hour hour and a half possibly
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he said well when can you come I said I'll be there in 45 minutes
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so I drove to drove to Dallas to the dealership now the the room was full of
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Corvettes brand new Corvettes and he said uh I've already picked out one for
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you but I want to see if you'll pick out the same one he said just walk through the showroom
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and take a look so I did and I picked out one he said that's the very one I
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had for you he said I've already got everything ready just signed here and how are you going to get it home
I said
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I'm going to drive it he said how are you going to get that Suburban home I said you're going to drive it
Seed Song
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so he followed me home then I took him back and then when I'm coming back home
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I called Jesse well just just before I called Jesse I
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said to the Lord I said Lord why did you have that man do this I said I already have a Corvette
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I said why did you have this guy buy me another Corvette he said because of what you did to that family
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in Augusta I said Lord I didn't ask
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for a return on that I did it out of the goodness of my heart your word says be
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mindful to be a blessing he said but son I never forget a seed Zone
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this is your Harvest amen never forget a seed song
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so I called Jesse I said Jesse has anything out of the ordinary
27:38
Supernatural happened to you in the last few hours he said yeah I'm just about to call you he said there
was somebody
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drove by my house and I'm sitting out on I'm standing out on the the balcony and
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as they drove by they saw me on the balcony stopped and they was in a truck
27:57
and they had a paper bag and they threw the bag over the fence and said brother
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Jesse that's not for the ministry it's for you
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and he said do you know what was in that bag I said I have no idea he said fifty
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thousand dollars I said Jesse guess what just happened to me
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and I told him about the Corvette I said did God tell you anything about that fifty thousand dollars he said
yeah he
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told me it was because of what you and I did for that family in Augusta I said
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Jesse God never forgets a seed song he never forgets a seed song
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amen and notice in Psalm 20 it says remember all thy offerings
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all thy offerings you may have given up on some of your harvests but God hasn't
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amen God hasn't in fact I had one time when when uh in the early days of my
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walk with God there was a missionary that came to the church that I was going to the Carolina
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was going to church she grew up in and he was believing for a van
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for his mission missionary efforts to carry food to the hungry
29:28
and the pastor received an offering that night I think I had ten dollars to my name and
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I gave it all in the offering for that missionary to buy a van
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think anything about it I just wanted to help the missionary and years later
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something happened to me that was so Supernatural and out of the ordinary and I asked the
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Lord I said what was this all about I didn't ask you for this he said that's
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your Harvest on that seed you sowed into that missionary you forgot it but I
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never forgot it enjoy your Harvest he never forgets a seed song look at
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your neighbor and say he never forgets a seed Psalm now for a harvest to come back on all your
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offerings wouldn't you call that maximum
Maximum Results
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I said wouldn't you call that maximum maximum results amen listen at Psalm 23
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everybody say oh all the days of my life that's maximum not occasionally not every week or so
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not once a month but all the days of my life listen to Psalm 34 17.
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I'm sorry uh Psalm 34 4.
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I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears not some
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but all Maximum Psalm 34 17 the righteous cry and the Lord heareth and
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delivereth them out of all their troubles how many all their troubles Psalm 34 19
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many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him
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out of them all how many oh what about in the New Testament
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Matthew 6 33 seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all
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these things shall be added unto you and the things he's referring to is the
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material necessities of life seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall
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be added unto you Matthew 9 23 all things are possible to
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him that believeth how many all things are possible to him that believeth
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sounds like the maximum Luke chapter 9 verse 1 Jesus gave authority over all
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Devils maximum John 16 13 when he the spirit of Truth has come he will guide
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you into all truth how much truth can we expect to receive from the holy spirit
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all true maximum and then one of the most famous or most well-known verses in
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the New Testament that I think a lot of Christians don't take Serious enough
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Philippians 4 19 but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
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and Glory by Christ Jesus all your need all your need not sometimes not many of
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them not the ones that he feels are most important all your need according to his
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riches in Glory by Christ Jesus the Bible is full of scriptures telling us
33:07
we are entitled to go for maximum are you getting this this morning we are
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entitled to go for maximum and I heard the spirit of God tell me to tell you
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to challenge you to begin to believe this year
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for the maximum and the highest level attainable somebody says is that possible yes it is
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all things are possible to him that believeth and nothing is impossible to
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the God we serve can you say amen and give him a good shout of praise
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amen amen now let's go to Colossians chapter

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One, a prayer that the Apostle prayed for the body of Christ inspired by the Holy Spirit beginning in verse
nine - for this cause we also since the day we
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heard it do not cease to pray for you and to desire that you might be filled with the wisdom with the
knowledge of
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God in I'm sorry might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom
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and spiritual understanding that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
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pleasing being fruitful in every good work if I say every
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now every all always we're talking about the same order we're talking about the
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same meaning no exceptions notice that you walk worthy of the Lord
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unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work
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how would you like to be able to testify God has seen to it that I am fruitful in
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everything I set my hand to do that I am fruitful in every work every
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endeavor all my plans succeed how'd you like to be able to give that testimony
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well the only reason we have it in the past because nobody was believing for it
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amen now once again if God didn't mean this
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why would he put it in the book and my attitude is if he didn't mean it
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he shouldn't have put it in my copy because once I find it I'm going void
35:46
and I'm not giving up amen I'm not giving up and I'm not going to let anybody talk me
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out of it amen and I've had people over the years say
Im in a Higher Plane
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well brother Jerry I know people who believe like that and it didn't happen for them well that does not sway
me
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I'm sorry that it didn't work for them but I don't have my faith based on what happened to them I've got my
faith based
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on it is written amen it is written Hallelujah and I'm
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experiencing some Maximum results ever since October of 2022 and in fact I'm
36:28
I'm I'm in a new dimension this year I'm in a I'm in a higher plane this year
36:34
praise God seem like every time I turn around there's something Supernatural extraordinary and unusual
36:42
happening and I'm just rejoicing and thanking God and if it can happen to me it can happen to you praise
God and
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God's no respecter of persons but you got to believe that it can happen for
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you and to you amen so once again being fruitful in every

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good work the word fruitful here means abundantly productive abundantly productive
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when would anybody set out to do something and not expect to get the best
37:14
results why waste the time and money if you're not expecting it maximum results
37:22
amen I don't you know our ministry is is
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financed primarily by our partners all over the world
Launch Out Into Your Own Ministry
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when I first started out in 1969 shortly after that I went to work with
37:41
brother Copeland and worked for him as his associate Minister and then launched out into this ministry
37:47
and January the 1st 1973.
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I didn't have any partners there was hardly anybody knew I existed
38:00
that the Lord said it's time for you to launch out into your own Ministry
38:06
and so I told Brother Copeland the last month December of
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1972. I said brother Copeland I've been devoted to you ever since I've come to
38:18
work for you and I'm going to remain devoted and loyal to you this last month that I
38:25
worked for you and I'm I'll work for you and give you 150 percent
38:31
gen to December the 31st and January the first I'm launching out into my own Ministry
38:38
and he said well Jerry I I know it's God I don't want it to happen but I know
38:44
it's God and he said I'll call some pastors I know and and have them to invite you to
38:50
speak I said no sir I don't want you to do that he said why not I said well I found in
Your Gift Will Make Room For You
38:56
the Bible that a man's gift will make room for him bring him before great men and I don't want to spend the
rest of my
39:02
life thinking I would have never made it if it hadn't been for Kenneth Copeland calling people my gift will
make room for me
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and the word told me when he gave me that verse he said you find out what your gift is you cultivated you
39:15
protected and you will never have to beg for a meeting never have to beg for money and I'll cause your gift
to bring
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you before Great Men and so I said don't call anybody
39:27
if this is God then God will make it happen amen and I said not only that I'm going
39:35
to work for you this last month and I don't want you to pay me for the month of December
39:40
you don't want to be paid I said no don't pay me a dime but I'm gonna I'm gonna travel with you I'm gonna
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I've always done for you but I don't want to be paid he said why not he said I've never heard anything like
that I
39:53
said well come the end of this month I'll be on my own I might as well learn how to believe God for my own
finances
40:00
and have a month jump start on it I've received more income
40:07
by December the 31st by not taking one dime from Kenneth Copeland Evangelistic
40:13
Association as it was known then not only that I made more money
40:19
received more finances in one month than I had working for him the previous nine
40:24
months not only that I received enough money to furnish a complete office
40:31
everything paid for five thousand dollars in the bank and a month's worth
40:37
of meetings [Applause] and I hadn't let up yet
40:43
amen I've never lacked for a place to preach
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I've never had to weasel my way into the right people
40:54
my gift made room for me Oral Roberts saw me preaching on
Meeting Oral Roberts
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television and told Evelyn it's time for us to have a relationship
41:05
with this young man I heard that he heard the call of God watching me in 1957 and he called my office that
was on
41:13
a Sunday called my office and his his uh secretary Ruth Rooks said Dr Roberts
41:21
would like for you to be in his office this morning can I tell him you'll be here I thought who tells old Roberts
no
41:29
I said yes ma'am tell him I'll be there so I jumped in the plane I had at the time flew to Tulsa went to Oru
and I
41:37
don't have a clue where Oral Roberts office is I asked some students
41:42
can you take me to Dr Robert's office oh no we're not allowed there that's the Vatican
41:50
I said well can you at least point to the building that it's in they said yeah
Meeting Ruth Rooks
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this building right here so I went over there and I found a student who was brave enough to take me up to
the sixth
42:01
floor then he left real quick so I walked in Ruth Rooks was standing
42:07
sitting there at her desk I said I'm Jerry Savelle she said Dr Roberts is
42:12
expecting you she got on the intercom and said Jerry savella's in my office he came out like this
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when he did like this in my mind one arm went to that wall and another arm went to that wall
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I mean he was big and he said come here my brother I looked around to see who else came in
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the room I said you talking to me he said yes I'm talking to you I saw you on television
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yesterday I told Evelyn it's time for us to have a relationship with this young man
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come here my brother he took me into his arms swallowed me up
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prophesied over me and said come into my office that was my introduction to a
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lifelong relationship with Oral Roberts my gift made room for me amen
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served on his board for 20 years preached with him he traveled we traveled in different nations together
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he stayed in my home many times I'm missing greatly today
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a lot of what I know I learned from him what happened my gift made room for me
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first time I met Kenneth Hagin I'm preaching in Tulsa and I looked down and
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Kenneth and Aretha Hagin were sitting in the front row I thought dear Lord
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what could I possibly say that Kenneth Hagin doesn't already know I'm probably praying for his sermons
Meeting Kenneth Hagin
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and after the service was over with I walked off the platform and I walked up to him and I said brother Hagin
I'm
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so honored that you would come and hear me preach and Aretha spoke up and said oh he gets something
out of your
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preaching every time he hears you oh wow and the next thing was he said I want
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you to preach for me in my camp meeting my gift made room for me brought me
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before Great Men amen I was in Kenya
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out on a Dusty Road in the bush and I'm sitting there having a cup of
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tea with some native pastors and I look up and there's Daisy Osborn coming down the
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road with a bunch of young ministers and I stood up walked up to her and I
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said sister Daisy I'm Jerry Savelle she said oh we know who you are T.L loves
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your ministry I thought I don't I've never met these people before how does he know anything about me
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I said his brother Osborne here she said oh no I'm I'm setting up the crusade in
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the Kuru and he won't be here for six months I do all the work he gets all the glory
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I said that or someday I'd love to meet brother Osborne
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I'm preaching in Kenneth hagin's camp meeting 1981. I looked down on the front row there's
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T.O and Daisy Osborne when I get through and I'm walking off the platform they meet me at the bottom
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step brother Osborne said you and your wife are going home with Daisy and me
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today I said we are he said yes you are go get your wife and we'll take you home
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with it we're going to spend the day with you that was my introduction to T.L and
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Daisy osber my gift made room for me and brought me before Great Men
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amen so my point in telling you all that is that
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why settle for less if the scripture says you can have more
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amen why settle for less if the scripture says that you can have the
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maximum amen so once again that he wants us to be
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fruitful in every good work now let me close it up this morning
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we'll take it up here tonight I want you to go to me with me to the 10th chapter of Mark
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the 10th chapter of Mark
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are you receiving
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I trust you will accept the challenge
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this is a story I'm sure that you're all familiar with it begins in Mark 10
Mark 10 17
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and uh chapter 10 and beginning in
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uh let's look at verse 17. and when he was going forth into the way
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that came unto him kneeling
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and saying Master what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life
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and Jesus said unto him why call us thou me good there's none good but God
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thou knowest the Commandments and he repeated the Commandments to him
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the man answered master all these things have I done for
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my youth now remember this is a rich man who came to Jesus and wants to know what
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he must do to inherit eternal life Jesus said you know the Commandments he
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said yes I know the Commandments and I've I've endeavored to obey them all my life that's the reason why
he was a rich
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man and then Jesus said to him but there's one thing you lack
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and he said sell what you've got and give to the poor
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and Jesus turned to the disciples and said how hard is it for a rich man to enter
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into the kingdom of God didn't say impossible he said it's hard and the reason said it's hard is because
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rich people tend to trust in their riches and don't feel they need God
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okay you know you've heard the phrase self-made man
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self men men self-made men don't think they need God now that's not true with every rich
Selfmade man
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person because I know a lot of wealthy people that love God with all their heart and
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everything they have is at his disposal and God continues to bless them but this man he was grieved
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when he heard what Jesus said because he had great possession I like to say it this way
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he not only had great possessions but his great possessions had him
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because he couldn't release any he wasn't willing to release any of them that's one of the ways that you
can
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determine without his first place in your life or not If He blesses you and then he asks you
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to give it he's not asking you to give it to try to take something from you he's asking you
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to give it to set you up for something better amen every every airplane I've owned in this
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ministry and I God gave me my first airplane in 1975. and every airplane I've owned in this
Debtfree airplanes
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ministry 10 different airplanes God told me to believe for them debt free don't ever fly airplanes with debt on
them and
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they all came debt free and every time I outgrew one the Lord would say
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sew it into another Ministry now if I didn't have that airplane and
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it had me I couldn't have done that and there's a couple of them oh
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there's one I had that it was it was a it was an airplane that
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I wanted personally for my own personal use I'd taken flying lessons and and uh
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and there was this Bonanza that I wanted and the Lord blessed me with it got it I
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was preaching up in South Dakota and a man there was a president of a bank came
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to the meeting and afterwards he said uh what kind of airplane you flying I
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said well I was flying a assessment 310 but I just I just gave it to another Ministry he said when are you
flying now
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I said well I'm leaving one next one he said I've got a bonanza that we repossess and Banks don't like
airplanes
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an offer I said okay he said give me what's owed
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on this Bonanza and it's yours well man it was a deal you couldn't walk away from and so uh
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I got that Bonanza and then as soon as I got it back to Fort Worth it needed some work so I you
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know being a no paint and body band first thing I did put a new paint job on it and and then I put new
interior and
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then overhauled the engine put new avionics in it now it is first class airplane
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and the Lord said give it away
Second opinion
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I'd like a second opinion is anybody else up there now see if I couldn't give it away I
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didn't have it it had me so I did I sowed it
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and that's what I've done on every airplane I've owned right up to the one I'm flying today praise God Amen
I don't
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allow anything to stick to me if I can't give it away then I don't have it it has
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me okay so this is the problem this man had and Jesus knew that he could not let go
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of something and Jesus said that's the one thing you lack you sell what you've got give to the
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poor and come follow me and when he refused and walked away grieved Jesus turned to the disciples
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and said it's hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God not
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impossible but hard now you would have thought if the disciples were poor they
Who can be saved
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would immediately turn to one another and said well boys we got it made
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but they didn't say that in fact Peter spoke up and said well then who
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can be saved why would he make a statement like that because you got to remember
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his last day in the fishing business him James John and John's father Mr
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Zebedee they had a fishing Syndicate and the last day in that fishing business
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they had the best day in the history of that business they called boat sinking
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net breaking loads of fish and you don't think they ate them all do you
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the best day they'd ever had in the fishing business and they walked away from it and followed Jesus that's
the
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reason they said well who then can be saved why because they were not poor men
A hundredfold
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and Jesus turned to him and said look at it with me in verse 29.
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sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the
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gospels but he shall receive a hundred Folds
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if I say a hundred fold now a lot of people
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have a problem with hundredfold a lot of other translations refer to it as
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hundred times and I've been challenged over the years
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many times you mean to tell me I can believe God for a hundred times what I sowed
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let's see that's all in red isn't it that means Jesus said it right
Ignorance gone to seed
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he's not a man that he should lie right
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when man challenged me one time in front of a lot of other preachers
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and said when Jesus said hundredfold he didn't mean that
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that was just a metaphor
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that's what brother Hagin calls ignorance gone to seed
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a metaphor Jesus didn't really mean a hundredfold
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that's a metaphor I said sir would you mind telling me what a field full of War
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looks like is that I don't understand I said apparently not
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read Genesis chapter 26. Isaac sowed land and reaped in the same year a
A field full of metaphor
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hundred fold now tell me what does a field full of metaphor look like
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it wasn't metaphor it was crops hundredfold 100 fold crops
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wasn't metaphor the Philistines could see them and the Bible says and they
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envied him because their land was scorched and had nothing and his land
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had just reaped a hundredfold harvest now if that's a metaphor show me what a
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field full of metaphor looks like
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amen now I realize that a lot of people struggle with 100 fold so let me help
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you think of it in terms of the maximum and the highest level attainable
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the maximum and the highest level attainable you know the Bible talks about from time
Maximum and highest level attainable
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to time 34 60 fold 100 vote 30 folks
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wonderful but it's not maximum 60-foot is wonderful but it's not
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amen and Jesus said anyone who gives for his sake or the gospels is entitled to
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believe for the maximum so why settle for anything less
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if you're struggling with 100 fold 100 times just quit using the word and just
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think maximum maximum
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amen that's helped a lot of people where I've where I've shared this
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oh brother Jerry that makes more sense I can believe for the maximum
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same thing as hundredfold but seems like maximum is easier to
What is Jesus telling us
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swallow so to speak than 100 fold so what is Jesus telling us
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we are entitled to a whole lot more than what we're settling for
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we can have maximum results and we can expect the highest level attainable and
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I for one am going for it if nobody else does I'm going for it praise God
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Hallelujah in fact when when my wife and I first started
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out I had shut down my Automotive business I had a lot of business debts we had
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personal debts and in the natural there was no way to pay it all back
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and we would give what little bit we had
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and the first time I ever heard any teaching on the hundred fold was from Kenneth Copeland in 1969. I said
Carolyn
What is 10 times
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that's what we're going for because tenfold wouldn't do us any good
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if we gave ten dollars and you'd use it in in the in the framework of 10 times what is 10 times
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10. hundred dollars didn't didn't help us that that didn't that didn't even make a
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dent in in what we owed so we I like to say it this way we were
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forced at an early stage of our walk with God to believe 400 volt
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because that's the only thing that would get us out of debt 100 fold and God began making it happen so
when people
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come along and say you can't believe a hundredfold that's like water off a Ducks back in the Savelle
household
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we've had it happen many times we're having it happen this year more than we ever have before praise
God why because
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it's time for the maximum it's time for the highest level attainable
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amen and one of the reasons why I'm saying that is not just so your life will be
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better but so that you can do more for the kingdom
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you can do more for the kingdom you'll be able to finance the kingdom like you've always wanted to
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amen I don't think in terms of you know just me and my house
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the Bible says in II Corinthians Paul said God not only is the provider of
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seed but it multiplies seed that is sown and so my prayer is Lord
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provide me with more seed so I can help more people provide me with more seed so I can help
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more Ministries provide me with more seed so I can get involved in getting this gospel preached
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to the world and bring Jesus back hallelujah amen you received that this
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morning come on stand up and listen thank the Lord for it Hallelujah it's time to begin to expect the
maximum
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and the highest level attainable once again I challenge you
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go look up the words all always and every and whenever you see it
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say that's maximum that's the highest level available
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I'm going for it all my plans succeed I'm going for it
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all my petitions granted I'm going for it all my needs met I'm going for it
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why not if God said it's available then why not partake of it
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can you say Amen let's lift our hands father in the name of Jesus I've endeavored to deliver this word this
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morning and I trust that it's been delivered in such a way that people have been able to receive it
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they've grasped it they've allowed it to drop deeply into their hearts
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and your word says that when we are more than just hears the word when we're
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doers we shall be blessed in our Deeds and father I know there are many people in here
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just like every other church I ever preach in or I preach in people in here that really truly need
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maximum in these coming days just to overcome the circumstances they
1:02:35
are facing right now and I pray in the name of Jesus that every person needing maximum results in
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whatever area it might be as they put this word
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to work in their lives as they hold fast to it and not let the
1:02:55
enemy steal it from them I pray that over the next few days they're going to be testimonies from
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this group of people of how you brought them into the maximum and the highest level attainable
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that no one could doubt the greatness of our God and we thank you for it in the mighty
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name of Jesus and give the Lord your best shout if you believe it praise God
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amen praise God turn to somebody and say I don't know about you
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turn to somebody and tell them I don't know about you but I'm going for the maximum the
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highest level attainable and then tell them why don't you come on and go with me

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