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It's time to stand up, speak out, get involved, and
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let's speak.
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Intention Hello and welcome to Intentional. I'm your host, nck
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Intentional because we are very grateful for you and for
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your support. Now it's time for us to stand up,
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speak out, get involved, and lets be intentional, ladies and gentlemen.
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As you may be aware, according to the Bible, we
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are now currently living in the Age of Grace, and
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I want to read you the words of Reverend Billy
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Graham on the subject. The world is living in the
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age of grace. Jesus Christ died for the sins of
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the world and extended his mercy and grace to whoever
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will receive him. As Lord and Savior. That's from Revelation
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twenty two seventeen. God's offer a forgiveness and a new
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life still stands. But this period of grace will not
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go on indefinitely, and someday it will be too late
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for men and women who did not repent and turn
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to the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus did not suffer and
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died to offer cheap grace. He did not willingly go
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to the cross so we could have an easy life
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or offer a faith that was built on easy believism.
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As someone said, Salvation is free, but not cheap, and
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it cost Jesus his life. The grace of God has
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been tested in the crucible of human experience and has
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been found to be more than an equal for the
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problems and sins of humanity. Throughout Scripture we read of
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warnings preceding disasters. Such alerts from God are part of
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his grace and provision. The motive of grace is the
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infinite compassionate love of a merciful God. Those who received
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this most wonderful gift make up the true Church of
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Jesus Christ. One of the most wonderful passages in scripture
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is found in the book of Titus, for the grace
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of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
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teaching us that by denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
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should live soberly, righteously and godly in the present age,
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looking for the blessed, hope and glorious appearing of our
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great God and savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for
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us that he might redeem us from every lawless deed
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and purify for himself his own special people zealous for
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good works. And that's from Titus to eleven through fourteen. Now,
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right now, I'm going to point the finger at myself.
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When you point one finger three or pointing back at you.
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It's easy to get caught up in the world, the
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urge to keep up at this fast pace, the engaging
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on emotions of all cylinders. I mean, like twelve cylinders
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at one time. I don't even know if there's a
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twelve cylinder car, but I just made that up. And
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whatever is being reported in the news and social media
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just keep us going. Now, at times, it's chaotic, it's overwhelming.
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People feel lost. Their journey becomes this ambiguous and confusing thing,
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and they begin to self doubt, they become anxious, and
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they become nervous and it's too much. Well, today we
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have a very special guest with us to discuss this
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very topic. His name is Eben Ali. He is the
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author of The Kingdom Fight. It is a He is
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a renowned motivational speaker and author of a very deep
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understanding of the human spirit and the principles of greatness.
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And as the nephew of the legendary Muhammad Ali, Eben
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brings a unique perspective of wealth and knowledge to this
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forty day devotional. So I want everybody to just take
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a deep breath in and kind of steep ourselves in
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this and welcome with me Eban Ali. Hello, hire you.
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I am blessed. It is an honor to be here,
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and thank you for having me on today. I am
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I'm very humbled by it.
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Thank you well, thank you for coming on. We are
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blessed and humbled and honored. It is a amazing devotional
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that you have written. And I want to talk about
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it because even this book is important. It's important right
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now and it's truly significant for this time. I'm not
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just you know, blowing smoke or caper. You know, you know,
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while we see that there may be some indicators that
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people are reading their Bible more, we kind of seen
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and I think this was in like Q research, that
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Christianity is kind of leveled off. There's no more of
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the falling off of people, and I really have seen
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a revival of bringing God back into our daily conversations
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surrounding our lives. In our country. We also have this
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anger out there, even that that ra All trio. There's
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hate in the streets, and we see what's happening on
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the college campuses. The conservatives, the Jewish students are being targeted.
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Tesla owners and dealerships are being terrorized, and every day
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there's like an all protest. No peace. But today, Sir,
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I want to focus on hope and faith and overcoming
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those obstacles. So I'd like us to kind of start
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out there. You wrote the book The Kingdom Fight. It's
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a forty day journey to greatness, and I really want
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to kind of start with what was the driving motivation
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that brought you to write this incredible book.
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Well, number one, just to piggyback off of what you
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were talking about, Yes, we are in a war, and
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you see, we have to understand the Bible tells us
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that about it is not again flesh and blood, his skin,
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spirits and principalities. So there is a fight that's going on.
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It's a kingdom fight. It's the Kingdom of God. And
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I don't even really like to say the kingdom of
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darkness because the devil is not a king, he's a
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fallen angel. So I'll say the army, the army of darkness.
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So in order to have the kingdom, you have to
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be a king. And we know that there's only one true, living,
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reigning king and his name is yeah, sure, Jesus, the
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Christ that is alive today. So that's where the battle starts.
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So that was some of the inspiration of writing this book.
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Also my life, the journey of my life, the things
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I've been through growing up as a blood nephew of
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Muhammad Ali, the things I've seen, the things I've experienced,
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my ups by downs. Now it's time for everything I
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went through for it to be a reflection, to be
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an open book, to make others better, to help others grow.
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And they're a pure identity of Jesus Christ. Not just
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to grow in it, but to understand the authority, to
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understand the power, and to understand what Jesus Christ really
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came and died for on what he restored us to be.
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We are heirs with him. He restored us back to
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his kingdom. So that's why I see and I'm not
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offending anyone when I say this as either. That's why
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I don't call myself a Christian. I call myself a
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citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. I'm a follower of Yeah. Sure,
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because when you're a Christian, I mean, as we've seen Christian,
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it could be a religious term. And you know what,
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we have to be submitted. We have to be committed
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to the will of God, to following the ways, the teachings,
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the laws, the principles of Jesus the Messiah, what he brought.
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That's kind of where that separation can come. But this book,
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this book is the book of inspiration. What I did
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is I took forty quotes, forty of my uncle Muhammad
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Ali's famous quotes, and I put them with scriptures, with
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forty scriptures the back the inspiration of his quotes, and
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then I tell about a segment in my life and
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a life of others to where ups and downs happened.
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But then when the power of God came through, and
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he broke through and he brought me into a new
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season of victory and power. So it's a book of empowerment,
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it's a book of inspiration, but it's a journey that
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I'm taking with everybody, and we're taking together through the
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picture of my life. But it's a reflection to bring
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everybody up to their true image and perfect and in
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the person and in the true victory of Jesus Christ.
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That is beautiful, Amen, that is beautiful. Really, you know
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something that I really believe, Eban, is the need for
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strong family in influences. In the book, you spoke about
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the spiritual tug of war between your father, who was
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a devout Muslim and wanted you to follow in those footsteps,
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and your mother, who was dedicated to Jesus, and it
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is very powerful. I identified with that because my father
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was an atheist and my mother was a believer, and
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there was a definite tug of war. And so even
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can you share with us some of that journey that
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you spoke about, some of that that is in your
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book and how it shaped you into the man that
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you are today.
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Yeah. Sure. So my battle started at birth when I
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was born. My father raised me up and he said,
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I'll I'll walk bob, which means glory to God in
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Islam Allah. My mother said, no, praise Jesus. Praise Jesus Christ.
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So even at a young age, right at the moon
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is when my battle started of understanding, am I going
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to be in the Kingdom of God or am I
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going to be a Muslim? And am I going to
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live for the true spirit of God? Or am I
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going to follow you know, another entity who is not
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that I know now through trials through supernatural interventions. Yes,
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Jesus is real. Yes, Jesus is the only true living
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son of God. And every victory of my life has
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proven it fact. So there's also been supernatural things that happened,
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even at a young age, where Jesus showed he really
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was the truth. My father used to make me do
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the Islamic prayers with him when I was at the
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age of eight to nine to ten years old and
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having an understanding. When I did those prayers, I really
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didn't want to do them. So even at that ad age,
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I would ask Jesus for forgiveness in the middle of
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doing the Islamic prayers. I had a supernatural understanding only
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by the grace of God, and my mother taken as
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the church every week, my mother pouring her love into us,
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reading scripture, understanding who Jesus was at a young age,
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and he manifests his self to me. Yes, and then
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like all people, like all the leievers do. Sometime then,
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growing up through the years, I became a professional boxer.
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But then I had a season as well. I had
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a prodigal son season to where I walked away from
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the things of God, to where I had to drink
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a lot, to where I became at the time an alcoholic,
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to where I began to watch pornography. And I walked
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away from the things of God. But then because of
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the prayers of the saints and the faithfulness of God,
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I came back into myself. I had an encounter, a supernatural,
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spiritual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. God came
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upon me, showed herself, knocking me to my knees, and
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not repent it and all of the change, all of
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the addictions that had me bound, I was set free
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by the pure, uncut, living blood of Jesus Christ. And
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here I stand today and my perfect No, I'm just
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a vessel just like everyone else is. But you know
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what I do know the one true, perfect God, and
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his name is Jesus the Christ. And I promised him
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every avenue, every platform I get on, I will give
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him praise, I will give him honor. And now we
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are in the age of the kingdom dispensation, meaning Jesus
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now wants us to stand in the authority and he
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is showing himself in supernatural ways like never before. It
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started with this wonderful man who is in office right now.
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That is the result of prayer, That is the result
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of the ecclacea standing, not giving up, declaring, warring, and decree.
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The things that God has spoke prophecies almost about twelve
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years to where we're at now have been manifested and
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come a forth. So the kingdom fight. This book is
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just another entity to help that God is going to
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use as a weapon to help bring forth his kingdom.
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To help everyone grow into the true image of power
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and the stand of your authority of who you are
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in Jesus Christ, and be victorious in all things that
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he came and he conquered. You have to remember Jesus
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conquered the world and then he gave us the keys
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to the kingdom. He gave us the power dominion back
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in it. So here we are all by His grace
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and his love. Amen.
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Amen, I love it. You know it is something that
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people need, you know. I think that was the one
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thing I came to Christ later in life, and so
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that was the one thing that I noticed immediately. Now
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now I'm not you know, we're not perfect. My my
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journey is long and you know still you know, long
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way to go.
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Mind have the glory of God. It's only by his
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grace that we're even regained, because our righteousness is what
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like filthy rags before him. So none of us ever
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be perfect.
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But you know, that is the one thing, is that
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that peace that overcometh the world. I think that was
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the one, the one thing that really struck me when
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I when I gave my life to Christ and I
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finally you know, prayed for Him to you know, enter
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my life and forgive me my sins. It was that