Is your love stronger than your memory?

In Genesis 45, Joseph’s dream is finally realized. He went from the prison to the palace, but it didn’t come through a straight line. Yet after years of betrayal, hardship, and loneliness, Joseph held on to his stubborn love for family. You see, he was the lover God was counting on. Even when his brothers did him wrong, Joseph only knew how to respond with a radical love offering. He kept his better angels at his side throughout the journey. But what about you? When you finally get the upper hand, will it be revenge or reconciliation you reach for?

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i’m going to the book of genesis chapter

number 45.

i will read extensively out of chapter

number 45 of the book of genesis verse

15

through 28

when you have it it’s our custom to

stand for the reading of the word of god

if you would respect that we would

appreciate it

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yeah we have the lord said to me we have

got to get used to

these services where anything can happen

because we can’t put the glory in a box

you got to be able to release what god

placed down inside of you

anything can happen in here shout amen

somebody

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i have a task before me i solicit your

prayers

as i delve into this text i do it from a

place of great humility

to discuss with you what he has

discussed with me

and to hopefully contemplate with you

the ideas that he has shared with me

that the church might be edified by that

which every joint supply

to the thousands and thousands of people

that connect with us

through cyberspace this is a word

from the lord that i am heavy with

today uh because it

is a prophetic word for

somebody regarding how things

are going to play out over the next

few years in your life

and i want you to hear what the spirit

of the lord

is saying to the church to the best of

my ability

beginning at verse number 15.

moreover it’s talking about joseph here

he kissed

all his brethren and wept upon them

and after that his brethren talked with

him

and the fame thereof was heard in

pharaoh’s house

saying joseph’s brother that i come and

he pleased pharaoh well

and his servants and pharaoh said unto

joseph

say unto thy brother this do ye laid

your beast

and go get you unto the land of canaan

and take your father and your households

and come unto me and i will give you the

good

of the land of egypt and ye shall

eat the fat of the land

now thou art commanded this do ye

take your wagons out of the land of

egypt for your little ones and for your

wives and bring your father and

come also regard not your stuff

for the good of all the land of egypt is

yours

and the children of israel did so

and joseph gave them wagons according to

the commandment of pharaoh and gave them

provisions

for the way to all of them he gave

each man changes of rain but to benjamin

he gave

300 pieces of silver and

five changes of rain

and to his father he said after this

manner

ten assets laden with the good things of

egypt and

ten she assets laden with corn and bread

and meat for his father by the way

so he sent his brethren away and they

departed

and he said unto them see that ye

fall not out by the way

and they went up out of egypt and came

into the land of canaan

unto jacob their father and told him

saying joseph is yet a lie

good god of mercy joseph

is yet alive and he is

the governor over all the land of egypt

and jacob’s heart fainted for he

believed them not

and they told him all the words of

joseph which he had said unto them

and when he saw the wagons which joseph

had sent to carry him the spirit of

jacob

their father revived

and israel said it is enough

joseph my son

is yet alive i

will go and see him before i die

can you say man go back to the first

verse for me there

verse 15. moreover

joseph kissed all his brethren

and wept upon them and after that his

brethren

talked with him i want i want to entitle

the message

joseph’s tears

joseph’s tears

spirit of the living god

help me

without you i can do nothing but with

you all things become possible

take me and use me any way you want to

use me

for the highest kingdom and the power

and the glory forever and ever and ever

my soul says amen

you may be seated in the presence of god

yeah let’s go to work

it is odd that there is so little

preaching done

about this part of joseph’s life

because this is the harvest

of the faithfulness that came through

the

suffering of his life

and yet we preach more about the

suffering

and the sacrifice then we do the harvest

we preach about how he was abandoned

and abused mistreated and ostracized

but we don’t teach people that he came

to an

end of suffering

that not only did he survive but he

thrived

and that his latter day was greater

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than his former day

that in spite of a rough start

and a raggedy middle ultimately in the

end

everything that god promised him

came to pass

he took him around about way to get

there

but he got them there this text

which is seldom discussed it evokes

a myriad of emotions because

having gotten there and been sustained

and is now the prince of egypt he is a

hebrew boy the prince

of egypt god doesn’t have to raise you

up amongst your own people

god will take you out of your element

because sometimes when you’re around

your own people

they don’t appreciate who you really are

god will take you

out of your element and take you to a

place where your gifts can be

seen and utilized and he raised him up

there

this text also shows us our god working

through a dysfunctional family

to accomplish his own divine purpose

jacob’s family was as the young people

says tore up from the floor up

the story stars in the treacherous

deceit of joseph’s brothers

and the plot that caused his father’s

head to gradually

age prematurely broken-hearted and

fragmented

raising children that don’t love each

other is a stressful thing

it picks up here toward the end with the

kind of promiscuous grace

that redeems the guilty and creates a

stage

for the purpose joseph was chosen

to be made manifest

it this it exploits before us the

magnitude

and the majesty of the breadth of the

kind of

person joseph was

it was not merely his coat

it was his character

they could take his coat but they

couldn’t take his character

he had the kind of magnanimous ability

the voluminous capacity to be able

to have the kind of love that was tough

enough

to withstand the obstacles of his times

it’s going to be challenging because

it’s not easy

to jump up and say yeah i got it like

that

until you’ve had it tested like that the

family had been badly disjointed

the reconciliation brings joseph to

tears joseph who has a chariot behind

pharaoh who commands the authority

over the finances for the entire nation

of egypt who is revered

amongst the egyptians burst

out in tears in the face of his brethren

in spite of being unjustly treated by

them

in spite of the way they ostracized him

and humiliated him

in spite of the way they set out to

murder him

literally murder him and decided

instead to throw him in a pit

to be divided by animals or taken

captive

as a slave they didn’t care which they

stood back to watch him die

have you ever had people that stood

up y’all don’t understand i’m gonna talk

to this say

have you ever had anybody that stood

by to watch you die set you up

and just waited for you to fall and fold

in the

arms of course you had you can’t live in

this world

and not attract enemies and haters and

naysayers

and people who despise you that’s a part

of this world

out of 8 billion people on the planet

everybody is not going to like you

we understand that but it’s not just

that they hated him it was that they

were also his

brethren

it is not just what they did

it is who they were

and yet joseph

when he is on top and he has

the power to be vindictive

he has the power to get even

he has the power to seek revenge

he has the power to annihilate them

he has the power to destroy their lives

he has the power to cut them completely

off

he has the power to cut off their food

supply

and watch them die

instead

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he burst into tears

joseph’s tears are amazing

they threw him in the pit and he didn’t

cry

they stripped him of his clothes and he

didn’t cry

they ripped his coat of many colors and

he didn’t cry

they separated him from the love of his

father

and he didn’t cry they sold him

into captivity to the midianites

and he didn’t cry for joseph to cry here

he didn’t cry in the house of potiphar

when potiphar’s wife lied on him and he

was

he had to leave there under a lie

and was falsely arrested and he didn’t

cry

he went to jail

and he didn’t cry he was forgotten by

the butler and the banker and he didn’t

cry

joseph is not a whip he’s not easy to

give way

to his but what is it about this

situation

that has brought him to tears

this is all the time that we readily

recall

joseph tears

i would have cried when they threw me in

the pit

i might have cried when they took my

coat

i definitely would have cried when i

lost my good job

at potiphar’s house and if they took me

to jail i would have been in tears

but he stood up to all of that

and didn’t shed a tear

and now when these haters

out of one period in his life come

back to him at another period in his

life

he sees them and they are

desperate and they’re in trouble

and a famine is coming into the land

and they need him and

either the evil in him will rise up

and get revenge or his

better angels will rise up in him

and he will respond correctly have you

ever

had to wrestle

you had two different ways you could

react you know the way

you should react but when you think

about what they did

and how you suffered is there anybody in

here

that had trouble reacting the way you

were supposed to lie

he is torn in his thinking

it is human to remember

how can he forget

what they did to him he said i know you

did it and you didn’t do it by accident

you meant it for evil

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oh i’m not a child or a novice i

understand everybody’s not gonna wish me

well

but it’s not what they did it’s

who it to route

you betrayed me too

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do you have the strength

to allow good to come out of you

when evil has been done to you

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anybody can be good to people that are

good to them

but the challenge of life is to be good

to somebody

that you don’t owe them no kind of good

i don’t owe

you enough i don’t owe you nothing i

don’t know you didn’t raise me

you didn’t love me you were there for me

now you and i don’t

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somebody in here knows what i’m talking

about

time has passed and now you need me

time has passed and now you call on me

time has passed and now your hearts have

softened

you need me now

and the challenge becomes given

the favor that he’s been given does he

have

the capacity in his person

to allow the phrase better angels i’m

going to talk about that in a minute

to rise up out of him and to guide him

so that the best part of him is leading

him

and not the worst part of him

the plan of god depends on joseph

finding

his better angels

abraham lincoln who used the phrase

better angels so beautifully in his

first inaugural

address on march the 4th of 1861

was was a time when our country was on

the eve

of the civil war initially

those lines were not in there he added

them

he says i am loved to close

we are not enemies but friends

we must not be enemies though passions

may have strained

it must not break our bonds of affection

the mystic chords of memory

stretching from every battlefield and

patriot grave

to every living heart and hearthstone

all over the broad land will yet swell

the course of the union when again

touched

as surely they will be

by the better angels of our nature

the better angels of our nature

abraham lincoln says as he is leading

the nation

through the most turbulent one of the

most turbulent periods

in the history of this country he calls

for the better angels

and says that ultimately when all is

said and done

we will recognize that we are one people

that we are

brethren though our relationship has

been strained

indeed it had it had been greatly

strained

and his writer one of his writers who

served as

lincoln secretary of state wanted to

change the land

and wanted to write in fact did write

guardian angels

but guardian angels implied something

from the outside

what lincoln was counting on is that in

the worst of us

there there is a better of us that is on

the inside that if we will allow it

it will rise up and take us through the

turbulence

of the times we face are you hearing

what i’m saying to you

not the piotistic term of the guardian

of angels no

but the better angels would arise and

protect them now give me give me a

moment i will get i’m gonna get you

where you’re trying to go

abraham lincoln didn’t come up with that

by himself

he is quoting from william shakespeare

when william

shakespeare writes in othello

in the 1600th century he writes about

a play called othello and in othello

he writes about the better angels

fighting down the evil that was done to

him abraham reached his back

abraham lincoln reaches back to william

shakespeare’s speech

in 1603 and adopts this language

better angels better angels

it is hard to live a life

that exemplifies your better angels

when you’ve had bad times

it’s hard to have better angels when

you’ve

been around bad people it’s hard to have

better angels

when you’ve got bad memories

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all of us have to fight every day to get

our better

angels to stand up inside of us

it’s not enough for me to talk about

joseph or or

even talk about abraham lincoln or

william shakespeare the character and

othello

let me bring this on down to paul paul

said when i would do good

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evil is present with me he said there’s

a war

going on in my members i could react a

lot of different kinds of ways i don’t

even know

how to respond to the moment that which

i would do i do not that which i would

not do i do

oh wretched man that i am who shall

deliver me

from the complexity of my life

there’s not a person in this room who

has a life

that has no complexity

we smile for people and we deal with the

complexity

by ourselves we show up as if everything

is seamless

but down on the inside we know we got

some complicated

it’s some complicated folks up in here

there’s some complicated

people watching me online you’ve been

through some complicated situations

complicated situations is when your mind

and your emotions

get into a fight and both of them are

right

i present you and i love you

i love you and i’m mad at you i’m

sick of you but i’m going to stand by

you oh yeah

i want to talk to some people that know

what it is

to have some complicated

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yeah yeah

oh god oh god

when i think about in my own life

there’s been times that i had to

struggle to find

my better angels i remember years ago

when i was driving on capitol street

we were back in west virginia and the

man cut me off and i was in a hairy

and this was a simple thing but he was

he he took my parking space

i had pulled up

to park and while i was pulling into

park

he shot in in front of me and took my

parking space

and bumped my car

and my two boys who are grown now 40

they were little boys

i locked them in the car because i

didn’t want them to get in the fight

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i walked over to his window and i

reached in the wind and said what’s it

going to take for you to get

off of my bumper whatever it is

i got it i was

fully prepared to snatch it it was only

that much crack in the window i was

fully prepared to snatch his body

through that window

and beat him like a runaway slave over

a parkings

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i’m just talking about me i know you

never had no moments of conflict

where your better angels went to bed and

your bad angel said i’d go

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the wise part about it ed is i i went in

the dry cleaners he backed up off my

bumper

once you know that and i went into the

dry cleaners to get my dry cleaning

and one of the things that was being dry

cleaned was a robe

a preaching robe

and the man looked at me and i looked at

him i said yeah that’s right

threw my robe over my shoulder and

walked out the door

i was embarrassed but i tried to hide it

i was ashamed but i tried to hide it

i got in the car and god said look at

you

i can’t turn my head up in it

there you are a young preacher just

getting started and you gonna fight the

man

over a parking space

while you rush to get your robe so you

can preach

i’m the only one conflicted i’m the only

one complicated

i’m the only one that struggles with two

different voices

i i’m telling you that it is natural to

have

this fight

the text that i read to you it’s kind of

unfair because i bring you

into the story at the end of the movie

it’s a spoiler alert because because at

the time i bring you into the movie

you have to begin to recognize certain

things about what is going on

joseph’s brothers tried to kill him they

tried to destroy him

they conspired to murder him they

ultimately left him in the pit

he was traumatized god knows how long

and naked and hungry and alone

and afraid trauma

bishop vastly mckenzie said something

that i love trouble don’t last

always but trauma will stay a while

the trouble will end but the trauma

is still there they said one to another

let’s stand to the side and see what

will come

of this dreamer behold the dreamer

cometh and let’s see what will become

of the dreamer what happens to your

dream

when trouble comes

what happens to your dream when delays

come

what happens to your dreams when

betrayers come

what happens to your dreams when the

money doesn’t come

when the support isn’t there when people

sabotage you

what happened see the enemy wants to

kill

your dream

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none of it would have happened if it

wasn’t for these brothers

who were his brothers

and his killers

at the same time

every person in this room had situations

in their family

that’s hard to explain

i love you but you get on my

nerves

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come on over for dinner but i can’t

forget what you said about me

on the phone and joseph has this ability

to be able to deal with this huge

situation

with the grace that it’s difficult to

explain

and it is here that we come to

understand

that with with the bombarding of

emotions coming at him

from all levels his

love is stronger than his memory

you see when i look at this text i

realize

that they are both in a family

that his brethren have been in a famine

for food

but joseph has been in a famine for

family

they were starving for stuff

but he was starving for them

and suddenly when i realized what made

him

cry i realized i have never really done

a good job of preaching him

because i am distracted by what he went

through

but what he went through in the pit in

potiphar’s house

in the prison doesn’t compare

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with why he went through it

it is not the what that kills us

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it ain’t the what i’m strong enough to

make it through the what

it is so why

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suddenly i realized that it was not

his body plummeting head first down

through the rocks

to the bottom of the well that was the

most painful

it was not the lacerations on his skin

or the beatings on his back

or being sold for 20 pieces of silver

that hurt him it was not that part of

his wife lying on him

that gave him the most grief

it was that his dream was tied to his

family

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and how can the dream come to pass

when the people i love don’t

i can’t reap love back i sow love to you

i can’t get love back from you

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i want to talk to some people who are

partially successful

you got it going on in this part of your

life but in this part of your life

all hell is breaking loose you got it

going on over here

and you’re the envy of everybody but

over here you go home

and you deal with something completely

oh you ain’t in here today you didn’t

come to church today

it must be somebody online well come out

come out wherever you are

come out come out wherever you are on

one hand it is the best of times

and on the other hand

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it is the worst of time on one hand

you’re at the top of your game

on the other hand there is this nagging

haunting aching feeling that will not

leave your heart

it will not go away what do you do

when your love won’t go

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away and your common sense says

leave them alone

leave them alone is there anybody in

here that’s got stubborn love

tenacious love relentless love is there

anybody in here

that has ever told yourself i’m not

gonna do nothing

i’m not gonna say nothing i’m not gonna

help

i’m not gonna open my mouth and all the

while you’re saying it

you fixing dinner talking about come on

in and get something

is there anybody in here that’s ever

been mad at yourself

for being too nice come on talk to me

somebody

i can’t be the only one in here that got

mad at myself

and told myself you stupid you’re just

stupid

you let people run all over you

never really realizing that what i hate

about myself

is what god loved

never really realizing that the whole

basis

of god’s favor on my life

is because i have stubborn love

you see it hurts to have

stubborn love it hurts

to keep on caring even when you’re not

treated fairly

but there’s something down inside of you

they cannot render

evil for evil

enhance

it hurts to say i’m sorry when you know

you wasn’t wrong

it hurts

to hold your peace when you know you

write about

somebody talk to me somewhere if i’m

talking to you make some noise

say something to me if you understand me

i don’t hope to get everybody i know

this ain’t for everybody

cause some of y’all too evil they even

understand what i’m talking about

but there’s somebody watching me right

now that knows what it is

to argue with yourself all night long

and say what you ain’t gonna do and get

up in the morning

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and do it anyway

because you got stubborn love

and now i see why god chose him

god chose him

because god couldn’t trust any of the

other brothers to have the radical kind

of love

they could look beyond what was done to

them

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god needed a lover somebody who would

love anyhow

so that he could work out his purpose

and his will

he could not work out his purpose

through somebody who was vindictive

and spiteful and hateful

and could not find their better angels

god said this is a moment that will

require

your better angels

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in order to get what god has for you

right now it will require that you

summons

your better angels and that you stop

calling it weak

who am i talking to

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i got a couple of things that i want you

to get out of this

i want you to get out of this how do you

handle

advantage

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because how you handle advantage

determines whether god

will trust you with power

some people can’t handle power because

they’re so vengeful

that if they ever get the upper hand

they’re gonna go for revenge

rather than reconciliation

and you’ve been praying for power and

you’ve been praying for

promotion but god can’t trust you with

promotion

because your heart is not big enough

to have the power that you’re asking for

and the kind of favor that god wants to

give you

it’s going to come to somebody whose

heart

is bigger than their head

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oh i’m losing i’m on this jesus this is

going to be number two

i want you to understand that love

never fails

it may take a long time it may look like

it’s

been knocked out it may get blooded it

may get bruised

it may even require stitches but when

the fight is over

love will always prevail

can your love survive or fall

joseph had taken a fall in a pit

but his love survived the fall

you can’t raise children if your love

can’t take a fall

you can’t have a relationship if your

love

can’t take a fall you can’t run a

business

if your love can’t take a fall you can’t

have a dream

if your love cannot withstand a fall

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have you ever dreamed you were fallen

you remember that powerless feeling

of falling and how frightening it is

when you wake up

because you’re falling and it feels like

things are out of control

there are going to be some moments in

your life that it feels like

everything is out of control joseph has

gone through a long period

of bad getting worse

and the only thing consistent

is that he was still in love

with his brothers and his father

man there are some people you have to

love at a distance

there are some people who are so unsafe

to love that that you have to love them

at a distance because

because who they are at this stage is

not who they’re going to become

at that stage but for right now i have

to love you

give me 50 feet i love you but give me

50 feet

you you crazy give me 50 feet you’re

going through some changes

give me 50. oh come on is there anybody

in here

got somebody you love but you got to

give them some

the third thing i want to ask you is do

you have the grace

to accommodate people changing

or are you still angry over something

that’s 20 years old

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do you have the kind of grace to

accommodate

that i might look like the same person

but i’m not the same

person at this stage in my life

that i was at that stage in my life so

much time had passed

that they didn’t even recognize joseph

some of you have been holding a grudge

so long

that you can’t even remember the details

you just remember the hanger and you’re

still

mad

and god wants your better angels so that

you can walk in the favor that he has

for you

it’s going to require that your better

angels arise

and you stop trying to be your own

defense

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because anger often is the camouflage

that love wears to keep from being

exposed

oh god

and and in order for god to deal with

you number four

you gotta have emotional honesty

even if it makes you feel vulnerable

to be emotionally honest joseph is

emotionally

honest he cannot help the fact that he

loves it

he cannot control their behavior

he can only control his

number five it brings him because of

that he can

bless them they cursed him

i had a pastor called me the other day

said this young man leaving in my church

and

he said he’s taking some of my members

and he’s

going away and uh and i gave him stage i

gave him a platform he betrayed me

and he took some of my memories at 11

and said what should i do

i said give him a love offering

i said give him a love offering he said

a love offering why would i give him a

love offer

i said because you are too big to have

unnecessary enemies

he gonna have enough to fight without

you

you don’t have to fight him life is

gonna fight him

life is gonna change him don’t add your

name to the list

you take the high road as michelle said

when they go low we go

oh y’all ain’t talking to me talk to me

somebody talk to me somebody

this family has been ripped apart

and they are a part of god’s divine

purpose this family is important because

god is going to use

this family to start the nation of

israel

and they have been ripped apart for

years

and the thing about a rip whenever

something is torn both sides get damaged

i don’t know who i’m talking to whenever

something is ripped

both sides get damaged you go home

bleeding but you think you’re the only

one bleeding

you go home and cry you think you’re the

only one crying but if it’s a rip

both sides are gonna cry both sides are

gonna suffer they may not show you

but there’s no clean way to have a rip

you don’t have a straight side and a rip

side when something rips

it rips on both sides

joseph colt was ripped from him

and his family was ripped from him and

both sides were filled

with pain god was getting ready

to do something so amazing that he was

looking for somebody

who was big enough to do it through

joseph understood something that god had

brought

him into favor to be a channel

to bless them

that the only reason god put him in the

power is so that his power would be used

for the posterity and the continuation

of the legacy of god if god can get it

through you

he can give it to you if god can trust

you

that your flesh won’t get in the way i’m

talking to somebody

who’s been talking to god about what

he’s about to do in your life

if god can trust you that the higher he

takes you

you’ll still reach low and pull up

somebody else

if god can trust you that as he opens up

doors

you’ll reach back and open up a door for

somebody else

if god can touch you

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look at somebody a type on the line

something is about to happen

god wouldn’t be talking to me like this

if something wasn’t about to happen

if something wasn’t about to shift if

god was about to raise me up

in some kind of egypt if some kind of

promotion

wasn’t coming in my life and god has

given me this test

so that i’ll be ready to handle what

he’s about to do next

in my life there’s a reason i’m

listening at this message today

god is about to raise me up from the

prison to the palace

who am i preaching to get ready for a

switch

get ready for a turn get ready for a

change

get ready for a move get ready for a

switch right now

holla at somebody something is about to

happen

something is about to happen something

is about to happen

something is about to happen something

is about to happen something is about to

happen

something is about to happen something

is about to happen something is about to

happen

something’s about to happen something is

about to happen

something’s about to happen god wouldn’t

be counseling me

about power if i was going to stay weak

there’s something that’s about to switch

in my

life that i’ve got to be ready

to receive give him 60 seconds

of crazy holy ghost

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so

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what i want you to see

is that all of a sudden the wealth

of egypt was transferred

to the house of jacob and the bible said

that pharaoh told joseph give him the

best of the land

load up the assets and the camels i’m

going to send him

so much blessing that before he ever

even

gets to me

and the lord said to me to tell you

if you can get the right attitude god is

about to do a switch

in your life until the wealth of the

unjust is going to be laid up

for the just if i’m preaching to you

give god a praise right now

i don’t care where you are sitting on

the couch

sitting at the dining room table or in

this building

i want you to just turn around in a

circle and say

god is about to turn it around

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god is about to turn it around he’s

about to turn it

he’s about to turn it he’s about to turn

it

he’s about to turn it the lord is about

to

the lord is about to turn it the lord is

about to turn it

the lord is about to turn it the lord is

about to turn it

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somebody south it will change

will change it will change

the pandemic couldn’t take it the race

rides couldn’t take it

what god has for you is for you

i rebuke every devil every

foul spirit that tries to cancel

out your blessing god said it will

change

it will come to pass if i’m preaching to

you

shout about it if i’m preaching to you

shout about it

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if i’m preaching to you shout about it

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if you’ve been in a battle shout about

it

if you had a hard time shout about it

if you thought the enemy was gonna kill

you

shout about it god didn’t keep you alive

without a purpose the reason you’re

still

here god’s about to fill your camel

with blessings your ass have not seen

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type on the line my story’s about to

change

you saw me in the pits you saw me in

potiphar’s house

you saw me in the prison but you’re

about to see me in the palace

my entire life is going in

better than it started if you had a bad

start

give god a good praise

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we pray

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y’all are playing with me i said if

you had a bad spot give

god a good praise

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these are not

tears of sorrow

these tears joseph had are happy tears

how can you say they’re happy tears

because the bible said he kissed him

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see once you know that what they did

didn’t stop you

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once you know that what they said

didn’t kill you once you find out

that god can get you there anyway

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you see joseph was

the love child of jacob and rachel

family meant everything

and god said

i am going to restore

listen to this jacob

thought joseph was dead he was

sure he was dead he said joseph is dead

and simeon is gone and now they want

benjamin

he had accepted

that joseph was dead

when his sons came back with their

camels loaded

down with blessings

joseph couldn’t hardly believe

that what he had given up on

could still happen

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so joseph

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he got his own legs up

and he stood straight up and he said i

gotta go

to my son joseph and connect with him

before i die god said i’m not gonna let

you

leave this world until you see what i

promise you

come to pass in your life i don’t care

what the doctor said

god said i will keep you alive

until i show you

until i show you that what you dreamed

was not a joke it

shall come to

pass it shall

come to pass

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say it again

say it again

say it again

that’s why joseph oh yeah

that’s why joseph was crying

because the scene i read

was the scene he saw when he was a boy

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what started the whole fight was he had

had a dream

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where his brothers would bow

and worship him

and when he walked in the room as the

prince of egypt

and they bowed before him

god said

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they laughed at your dream

but it happened they laughed

at what you believed but it happened

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and i kept your father alive

because he’s part of the dream

he brought joseph’s father

and his brothers

into the fulfillment of what god is

predestined

hear me right now you’re watching me

right now i want you to focus on me

right now

i want you to focus on me right now

there have been a lot of setbacks

there have been a lot of betrayals there

have been lies told

there has been pain inflicted there’s

been times you’ve been handcuffed

there’s been times you’ve been tried

there’s been

times you’ve been in situations where

you were locked up and you couldn’t get

out

in spite of all of that what

god spoke to you shall

surely come

to pass

it will come it will come

it will come it will come it will come

it will come you weren’t ready for it

when you saw it

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you weren’t ready for it when you saw it

you had to go through more things to

grow into it

but you’re coming into a season now

the things you saw long time ago

are going to come to pass and it’s going

to be the kind of joy

that brings you to tears

because there were times you thought you

were crazy and there were times you

thought you lost your mind

and there were times you thought you

were a fool and there were times you

couldn’t hardly believe in your own

dream

but every bit of it every jot every

tittle

every word every sentence every

paragraph

every promise everything god told you

when you were a child

when you were a little girl everything

god showed you when you were a little

boy playing in a sandbar

everything that god gave you god said he

gave you glimpses

glimpses you didn’t have details you had

glimpses

whoever i’m talking to you had glimpses

you had glimpses

you had glimpses and you’ve been looking

at your life and say

my life doesn’t look like what i saw god

said that’s because it’s not over yet

god’s gonna bring you into a place where

everything that you glimpsed

is gonna materialize in your life and

the praise that’s gonna be in your mouth

is unspeakable i want somebody that

feels a witness

to what i’m saying to open your mouth

and

flood this place flood your house

flood your kitchen flood your car

flood your place with

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here it comes your season

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here it comes your

season if it wasn’t gonna be your season

the virus wouldn’t have come

the plagues wouldn’t have been loose the

jobs wouldn’t have shaken

the trials wouldn’t have come the storms

would have attacked you

the divorce wouldn’t attack you the

sickness wouldn’t attack you

the only reason the enemy is attacking

you is because you’re on the verge

of coming into a press down

shaken together running over

supernatural

miracle in the lord i don’t need nobody

to praise him

that i’m not talking to i don’t need

nobody to praise him

who don’t understand it i only want

people to praise him

that god they got something leaving in

your body

that’s got something shouting in your

soul i

i don’t care if it’s 10 people if this

is a witness

that the word of god is true in your

life

in your ministry in your preaching

in your family in your body

in your finances open your

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mouth

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yeah yeah that’s what i’m talking about

that’s what i’m talking about right

there yeah that’s what god wants

somebody who believes it somebody who

believes it

somebody who’s been praying about

something and praying about something

and you can’t shake the way you feel and

you feel like you’re trapped

and the thing is complicated and it’s

complex

and it’s difficult and it’s been tough

and it hadn’t been a straight line

and there’s been dark days and there’s

been lonely nights

and there’s been times you wanted to

quit and there’s been times you wanted

to collapse

but god kept speaking to you

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foreign

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so joseph joseph runs up

he runs up

and he kisses his brothers

because they’re coming as a sign

that the time is now

and he starts weeping

and he loved him and he missed him

but the thing that tipped him over is

that the dream was not alive

though the visionary

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wait for it in the end

it should speak and not lie who am i

talking to

it’s been a long time coming

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but a change has got to come

it’s been a long time coming

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the change the change

the change you felt like a fool sometime

but the change was coming you loved

even when you was mistreated but the

change was coming

god said stop despising the way you care

it is the way you care that made him

bless you

in the first place he blessed you

because he could trust you

he blessed you because of the way he

designed your heart

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don’t you start being nobody else

lord have mercy i feel the holy ghost

don’t you start walking in nobody else’s

shoes

because your gift is the crazy way

that you can take a licking and keep on

ticking it’s a crazy way

that you can love people that other

people don’t even like

that you cannot like what they do and

still find a way to love them

it’s the crazy way that god has put you

in a position

of power to bring about change

with people who your mind says don’t

even deserve it

but god is going to use

lift your hands up in total surrender

like you’re under arrest

lord i surrender

to your providential will to your

purpose for my life

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you have created me like you created me

for reasons

and i know my girlfriend says if if i

was you i would take

you not me i’m i’m me

i can’t be you i gotta be me because if

i stay me

god is gonna bless me lift your hands

and open your mouth

and thank god for working it out in your

life

everything is going to work together

for the good of them that love the lord

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he’s talking to you he’s talking to you

right now

he’s talking to you

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is

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he will he will oh

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is

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i receive it i believe it will do just

what he says

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what

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god’s gonna change

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yes it is

he will

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be

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now bring your hands with me

don’t let a trace of bitterness

don’t let a trace of bitterness

destroy the word of the lord that’s been

spoken over you

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not a trace of hatred or anger

get rid of your victim mentality

it’s gonna take all of this to get to

that

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everything is going to fall into place

he’s moving pieces around

he’s moving you from place to place to

place for such a time as this

so that what he said long time ago

it’s going to come to pass

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the word of god is true

and your joy is gonna be so full

that your face is gonna flood with tears

thank you lord

you didn’t let me live and die without

getting what i needed

you had to move some pieces around but

you placed me in a place

for me to receive

and i will not let any devil trick me

into anything less

than my better self

hold it just a second lord while other

people are saying make me

bigger our prayer is make me

better

while others are seeking status

and stage

we are just asking you to make us better

people

because now we realize that if you trust

us

you can bless us

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i pray for divine favor

favor so strong that it’s generational

i pray for the kind of favor that

reproduces

on our offspring and their offspring

and their offspring

the changes we make now

will change the trajectory

for generations to come

for generations to come will be changed

because of the adjustments

that we are making right now

the adjustments that we’re making right

now are going to affect our

grandchildren

and great grandchildren

because something just shifted

in my soul

i will never be the same again

lord while we’re praying is there

somebody watching me

viewing me streaming me in this room who

doesn’t know jesus

i pray that they would come to know him

in the free pardon of their sins

that they would stop wrestling with god

over the hateful things that happened in

their life

and trust in the fact that god has a

plan

and that everything is going to fall

into place

even the things that bruise them

and hurt them and lacerated their heart

and that right now they will give their

life to you

in this moment

the prayer number is up on the screen

for you to give your life to christ if

you’re in this room and the holy spirit

touched you

and you’ve decided to give your life to

christ

hold your hand up i’m giving my life to

christ hold it up

hold it up hold it up bless you

hold it up high bless you

hold it up high if you’re in this room

and you’re backslidden

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and this year and this storm has

made you act out

if you’ve been going through the period

like i was and you ready to snatch

people

through windows and you have not been

the person

that you really are supposed to be and

you know you needed to get back to

church because you

you you’re turning into somebody else

and you need to renew your covenant with

christ right now

hold your hand up high i want to pray

for you

everybody who didn’t raise your hand be

seated

nobody standing but those who raise your

hand in either category

and i want to pray with you father right

now

i thank you for this harvest this is the

harvest

that matters this is the harvest that

counts

the harvest of souls and hearts

and lives that are changed by the power

of god we stand in your house lord and

we confess

our failures our flaws our humanities

our weaknesses and yes our sins we

repent

get us together

get us right in the center of your wheel

so you can finish what you started in

our lives

we’ve been delayed but we have not been

denied

and right now in the name of jesus

restore the joy

of our salvation i plead the blood over

every sinner that your life would be

changed

by the power of the blood of jesus

christ

to those of you that online the same

anointing

that’s in this room is reaching out to

you right now

you will never be the same again

and we thank you for the change

it’s not a feeling it’s not an emotion

it doesn’t mean that i’m quaking or

shaking but i receive

the change in my spirit and in my life

that today forward i’m back

yes i and max

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the bible said when the lord turned

again our captivity

we were like them that dream

then was our heart mouth filled with

laughter

and our hearts with singing

turn again our captivity oh god

it is by saying they that soul in tears

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shall reap in joy

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god said to love radically

to love

radically

to love even when you look like a fool

that when it’s all over

your dream even now

will come to pass

if you got blessed today give him a

praise

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you