0:10

Coming up on the Potter's Touch. Your

0:12

blessing is tied up and

0:14

nobody's gonna get it until you get to the

0:17

place that you're ready to receive it.

0:19

You're not waiting on your blessing, your

0:21

blessing is waiting on you. This

0:30

is the first day of the Holy Week,

0:33

what we would call Holy Week today. They

0:35

didn't call it Holy Week then. They didn't

0:37

have that term at the time. This would

0:39

be normally what we would call

0:41

Palm Sunday. They didn't call it

0:43

Palm Sunday then. That's something

0:45

that came much later. Jesus did

0:47

not do it to create

0:50

a ritual for us.

0:54

And instead, the Bible is clear that Jesus

0:56

is on the precipice of the week that

0:58

would lead him to Calvary and he starts

1:00

it off making

1:04

an entry into Jerusalem where

1:07

he knew his haters

1:09

had galvanized a strategy

1:11

to destroy him. And

1:14

as he prepares to enter into

1:17

Jerusalem, he controls the

1:21

moment by telling them exactly

1:24

what is necessary in

1:26

order for this to be fulfilled.

1:29

Jesus did not do this so that

1:32

you could get little palms and make crosses and

1:34

pin them on your dress. He

1:36

didn't do it so we could have a day off from work.

1:39

He didn't do it so we could have an international holiday

1:43

or a spiritual memorial. Jesus

1:46

did it, the Bible is clear,

1:48

to fulfill prophecy. That

1:51

the prophecy had said that the king

1:54

would come in humbly

1:57

riding on an ass entering

1:59

into Jerusalem. Jerusalem and

2:01

to fulfill the past

2:03

in his present he

2:05

was intentional. God

2:10

is intentional. He could have

2:12

walked into Jerusalem. He

2:15

could have walked into Jerusalem. He could

2:18

have took a horse into Jerusalem, but

2:20

he was intentional about making sure that

2:22

the word of the Prophet did not

2:25

fall, that it came

2:27

to pass. And he was

2:29

so intentional about causing this

2:31

moment to happen that

2:33

he sent him to

2:36

the village where they were not

2:38

at. Having left Bethnich and headed

2:40

toward Jerusalem, he said, I want

2:42

you to take a detour and

2:45

go to the village. Now understand

2:47

what we talk about when we

2:49

look back at it. We look

2:51

at it through our religious eyes

2:54

and through our Western eyes and

2:56

we get these ideas about

2:58

it and we think about it in terms

3:01

of holidays. But the truth of the matter

3:03

is the early church did not celebrate

3:05

Palm Sunday. It's about

3:07

4 BC before Palm Sunday

3:09

ever got celebrated. So the

3:12

early apostles did not even

3:14

celebrate it because it wasn't

3:16

so much that Jesus was

3:18

concerned about setting in a

3:20

religious tradition as much as

3:22

he was fulfilling a prophecy.

3:25

When God gets ready to fulfill a

3:28

prophecy, he is intentional about

3:30

making it come to pass.

3:33

It wasn't like he ran into the

3:35

donkey. He had to

3:37

make it happen. He

3:40

had to make it happen. There

3:42

are some things that God has

3:44

promised to you. He is so

3:46

intentional about them that they are not

3:48

in your path. He has to go get

3:51

them. There

4:00

has to be a synchronization

4:02

between the traveling pattern of

4:04

the Messiah and the

4:07

cult and the ass that were

4:09

tied up in another village. And

4:12

Jesus told two of his disciples,

4:15

go get them. Now

4:17

first of all, before I talk about

4:19

the command, let me talk about the

4:21

fact that he knew where

4:23

the ass was. Because

4:27

here he is on the last

4:29

week of his life headed toward

4:31

Calvary and he knows

4:33

where the ass is. He

4:36

knows exactly, let me try to

4:39

get, they're getting ready to crucify

4:41

him and Jesus is thinking about

4:43

a cult. How

4:46

many of you facing the most

4:48

tragic week of your life are

4:50

thinking about menial things? But

4:53

the difference between great men and

4:56

poor men is giving attention

4:58

to detail. Your

5:01

God is God of detail. Details

5:05

make a lot of difference. And

5:08

when God has willed something to

5:10

happen, he also has made provision

5:13

for that thing to happen. And

5:15

he says to the disciples, I

5:17

have a provision that is not in your

5:19

path. Yeah,

5:24

10 people got it in there, they're going

5:27

to get the blessing. He says

5:29

to the disciples, I

5:31

have a provision that is

5:33

not in your path, but

5:36

I know where it is. And

5:39

I've been holding it for you. And

5:42

I'm going to show you where to

5:44

get what you need to get to

5:47

fulfill that which has been prophesied

5:49

unto you. Don't

5:51

be bothered by the fact that you don't see it in

5:53

your path right now. Don't be bothered

5:55

by what you don't see and what's not

5:57

around you and what you don't have and

5:59

what's not around you. in your pocket and

6:01

who's not in your life and what happened?

6:03

It's still yours. Oh,

6:05

God. Oh, my God. Somebody

6:08

ought to shout me down. It's

6:10

still yours. It's not in your bank

6:12

account, but it's still yours. It's not

6:14

in your purview, but it's still yours.

6:16

He hasn't proposed, but it's still

6:19

yours. You haven't met him yet,

6:21

but it's still yours. The deal

6:23

hadn't closed, but it's still yours.

6:25

The paper has haven't been signed,

6:27

but it's still yours. It's not

6:29

on the contract, but it's still

6:31

yours. The tumor

6:33

hasn't shrunk, but it's still yours.

6:36

Healing is the children's bread.

6:38

It's still yours. God

6:40

says, I know exactly what it takes

6:42

to bring it to pass. I've been

6:44

saving it for you. See,

6:47

see, see,

6:50

see, I'm not so much

6:52

right now going to focus on

6:54

Jesus, and I have the ass and

6:56

the court who has spent their life

6:58

tied to a pole. I

7:03

want you to understand that God will tie

7:05

up your blessing. You

7:09

don't have to be up at night worried

7:11

about who's trying to get your blessing and

7:13

who's trying to take your blessing and who's

7:15

after your blessing. You can let all of

7:17

that go. God will tie up your blessing.

7:19

He will leave it tied up till you

7:22

get to the place that you need to

7:24

be. He will put it on the hole.

7:26

The hole doesn't know why he's tied

7:28

up. The ass doesn't know why he's

7:30

tied up. But God has reserved it

7:32

for such a time as this. I

7:35

want you to get two things out of this. One, I want you

7:37

to know your blessing is tied up and

7:40

nobody's going to get it until you

7:42

get to the place that you're ready

7:44

to receive it. You're not waiting on

7:46

your blessing. Your blessing is waiting on

7:48

you. Your blessing is waiting

7:51

on you to get to the place in

7:53

your journey that you're not ready to receive

7:55

on the level that the blessing is going

7:57

to take you to. I want you to

7:59

get that out. the message. Number two,

8:01

I want you to get out of the

8:03

message. If you've been feeling a rope around

8:05

your neck, like your life was tied up

8:07

and your career was tied up and your

8:10

finances were tied up and your future was

8:12

tied up, I want you to know that

8:14

God has you on reserve waiting

8:16

on the right place at the right

8:19

time and when he gets ready to

8:21

loose you, nobody can tie you up.

8:23

When he gets ready to set you

8:25

free, nobody can set you down. I

8:27

want you to know that God is

8:29

a conductor, an orchestrator, that he's

8:32

in control of everything and

8:34

he knows where everything is.

8:36

And now in this moment,

8:41

this is the moment

8:43

where God starts pulling everything

8:46

together. This is the

8:48

moment where crazy things start to make

8:50

sense. This is the moment where

8:52

you begin to understand why you had to

8:54

go through, what you had to go through

8:56

to get where you are. This is the

8:58

moment where you understand why you've been on

9:01

hold for years. Nobody

9:03

has chosen him. Nobody's wrote

9:05

men on him. Nobody's ever, this

9:07

is the moment that you begin to understand

9:09

why you're anointed but you haven't been used.

9:11

God said, I had you tied up

9:14

and when I'm getting ready to loose

9:16

you, I don't know who this is

9:18

for but God said, I had you

9:20

tied up but I'm getting ready to

9:22

loose you. Don't worry about the bands

9:24

around your neck. Don't worry about the

9:26

restrictions on your life. Don't worry about

9:28

where you can't go and what you

9:30

can't do. When I get ready to

9:32

loose you, no devil in hell can

9:34

stop you from being loose because I'm

9:36

God all by myself and when I

9:38

get ready to make it happen, I

9:40

will make it happen. There

9:50

is a term called the pilgrimage of ethereia

9:52

and the pilgrimage of ethereia is a documentation

9:57

that was done in the

9:59

about the fourth century that

10:01

begins to talk about this

10:03

woman traced back when

10:05

people at the early

10:07

church started to commemorate

10:09

this moment. It

10:12

is after the resurrection. It

10:14

is after the life and the

10:16

death of the apostles that the

10:18

early church really started to

10:21

commemorate in a major way

10:24

this moment in retrospect.

10:27

In hindsight, we

10:29

look back at this moment and

10:32

we understand that this was

10:34

a magnanimous moment, a huge moment,

10:36

a moment of massive proportion. How

10:38

many times in your life did

10:40

you hear the moment and you

10:42

didn't really appreciate the moment till

10:45

in retrospect and you look back

10:47

and you're like, oh my God,

10:49

that was a moment. Hallelujah.

10:52

Now you start talking about those were the days,

10:54

but when you were in the days you didn't

10:57

know they were the days. Now

10:59

when you look back and you got

11:01

something to compare it with, you have

11:03

different appreciation in retrospect than you did

11:05

in real time. Are you hearing what

11:07

I'm saying to you? Well,

11:10

this text is a convergence of

11:13

the past prophetic content.

11:15

The present crisis and

11:18

the futuristic outcomes all

11:21

galvanize themselves and collide

11:23

in this text. Well,

11:26

it's just an ass and a

11:29

coat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

11:31

But if Jesus isn't

11:33

doing this so you can have

11:35

a religious ceremony, he is illustrating

11:37

his ability

11:40

to put his finger on

11:43

whatever you need. And

11:47

to pull it to you. Plus

12:02

the timeline would go get it, go get it,

12:04

go get it, go get it, go get it, go get

12:06

it. It's not going to

12:09

come for you. You have to go get

12:11

it. Never

12:18

have we needed your support more vitally than

12:20

we do right now because we are on

12:22

the move for God. And if you have

12:24

not been on the move for God, I

12:27

want to challenge you to get busy and

12:29

get on the move doing what God created

12:31

you to do in whatever field you are

12:33

in. God planted you there

12:36

for a reason to be the salt

12:38

of the earth. All ministry is not

12:40

about pulpits. All ministry is not about

12:42

singing in the choir. All

12:44

ministry is not about clapping your hands in church.

12:47

Whatever you are doing to help lift, change,

12:50

fortify, strengthen people, you are in

12:52

the ministry. Everybody who has got

12:54

a ministry stand up on your

12:56

feet. That

12:59

ought to get everybody, yeah.

13:02

We are laborers together with

13:04

God in Christ Jesus. How

13:06

many of you are believing God to bless

13:08

your ministry, whatever it is? It's

13:11

just going to hell. If it's putting on makeup,

13:13

it's still a ministry. There

13:22

is a moment coming to

13:25

many of you for

13:27

which you have been waiting on all

13:30

your life. Everything

13:34

else you did was just

13:36

how you kept you tied up. How

13:41

many people in this room since

13:45

that God has something else for you?

13:51

Everything else you've been doing is just how

13:53

he kept you tied up, how he

13:55

kept you occupied, how he kept you doing

13:57

something, how he kept you moving. God

14:00

is about to give you a

14:02

moment. Nudge your name and

14:04

say, all I need is a moment. I

14:07

don't want to die till I had

14:10

my moment. I don't

14:12

want to collapse till I've had my moment.

14:15

I was created for such a

14:17

time as this. And

14:19

so they got their ass untied. They

14:24

got the cult untied. And

14:26

they brought him to Jesus. Provision

14:34

is coming to the

14:36

prophet. The

14:40

prophet knew where he was. The

14:42

disciples went to get him. Now

14:44

the provision is to

14:46

the prophet. And when the

14:48

provision comes to the prophet,

14:51

there is a colliding of destiny.

14:58

If the asker talks, he

15:00

will say, all of my life,

15:05

I've been waiting on this moment. And

15:12

Jesus is saying, all of my life, I've

15:19

been waiting on this moment. And

15:23

when two things collide that have

15:25

been waiting on this moment, and

15:28

they share that moment together,

15:34

see, the problem with you is you've had

15:37

moments and brought people into moments who didn't

15:39

appreciate the moment you were pulling them into.

15:42

And you got to drag them into

15:45

the moment because they have no appreciation

15:47

of what it costs you, how long

15:49

you waited to have the moment. And

15:52

you are unequally yoked. And many times

15:54

they polluted the moment from being everything

15:56

that it could be because they didn't

15:58

have the appreciation the moment you

16:00

are in, but the ass is just as

16:03

happy as the master is because Jesus has

16:05

lived for this moment. I'll prove to you

16:07

that he lived for this moment. He

16:10

called Judas his friend. And

16:14

when Peter tried to stop the crucifixion,

16:16

he said, get the hence behind me,

16:18

Satan. For this purpose came

16:20

I into the world. I

16:23

didn't come into the world to play with your

16:26

fish sandwiches. I

16:29

didn't come into the world to heal two or three people's diseases. I

16:34

came into the world to save the world from

16:37

their sins, to annihilate the

16:39

enemy called death, to take the

16:42

sting out of

16:44

death and the victory out of the grave. I

16:46

did not come into the world to heal 10

16:48

lepers. That's

16:54

just stuff I was doing while I was waiting. But

16:58

for this purpose came I into the world to

17:06

do a job that nobody can do but me.

17:09

There are no competitors at

17:12

being you. There

17:16

are no competitors at

17:19

being you. You

17:21

are in a class all

17:23

by yourself. Stop

17:26

being intimidated by other people.

17:28

Can't nobody in the world beat you

17:30

and be as you,

17:32

like you can do you, like

17:35

nobody else can do you. It

17:38

couldn't have been another ass and

17:40

it couldn't have been another Jesus.

17:42

They were made for each other.

17:44

They were waiting for each other.

17:46

And when they met, both of

17:48

them had been on reserve for

17:50

this one moment,

17:53

this one defining moment,

17:57

this one prophetic moment.

18:00

All you need is one moment.

18:05

Can I go a little bit deeper? The

18:08

Bible says in Malachi, I bring you all the

18:10

tithes and offerings into the storehouse, that

18:12

there might be meat in my house. And

18:14

prove me now herewith, saith

18:17

the Lord of hosts, if I

18:19

will not open up the windows

18:21

of heaven, the word windows of

18:23

heaven properly translated, it's the floodgates,

18:26

the floodgates of heaven. You don't

18:29

open up floodgates and expect what

18:31

happens next. He said to

18:33

pour you out a

18:35

blessing. I

18:40

open up the whole floodgates for

18:43

you to get a blessing. All

18:46

you need is one. The

18:51

one blessing is gonna be so big,

18:53

you won't have room enough to

18:56

receive everything I'm gonna bring

18:58

out of that one, that

19:01

one meeting, that one

19:03

connection, that one individual,

19:06

that one decision, that

19:08

one touch, that

19:11

one change, that one

19:13

no. I open up the

19:15

floodgates to give you

19:17

one thing. Your

19:23

destiny collides. Moments

19:26

are born. This

19:31

is a defining moment, not only

19:33

for its prophetic value, not

19:36

only for its futuristic value, but

19:39

in its present tense reality. Being,

19:43

oh God, it's popping. He

19:45

keeps feeding me, I'm trying to shut up, and

19:47

he keeps feeding me. Be present in the moment.

19:51

Some of you live in the past, others

19:53

of you worry about the future. Few

19:56

of us are present in the moment. I

19:58

spent all last year in a moment. working on

20:01

it still this year, on being where I am.

20:07

Just being where

20:09

I am. Because if

20:11

I'm not careful, I'll always be planning

20:13

where I'm going at

20:16

the expense of missing. The

20:22

other pathology that's equally as dangerous

20:25

is you can't enjoy where you

20:27

are for grieving over where you've

20:29

been. Either

20:32

way, the enemy is stealing the

20:34

present moment. And

20:36

it is only a moment. Let

20:39

me show you this. It's only a

20:41

moment. If you

20:43

miss your moment, you

20:45

are not guaranteed a repeat

20:48

opportunity. We

20:53

were talking. We were talking. Some friends

20:56

of mine were talking and said it's

20:58

amazing. She's a personal friend of mine.

21:00

Every time I hear a song by

21:03

her, it touches my heart because I knew her and

21:05

loved her and appreciated her. But if

21:08

Aretha were to start singing today,

21:11

there is no guarantee that she would be

21:14

the queen today. Because

21:18

soul music is

21:21

not even valued. It's

21:24

not even selling in a hip-hop world.

21:28

She had one moment. If

21:35

you miss this

21:38

window, if

21:40

you miss this window that God has

21:42

opened up for you and you fool

21:44

around and let that window close, you

21:47

may not ever have the

21:49

right convergence of circumstances to

21:51

have the impact that you

21:53

need to do what

21:55

you're trying to do. If Harlan Sanders opened

21:59

up KFC. today he

22:01

go bankrupt because

22:05

he would show you a home-cooked meal

22:07

and we would want to know is

22:09

it gluten-free I'm a bacon I'm

22:12

a pescatarian I don't eat that I

22:14

don't eat this I don't eat the

22:16

other but at the time the window

22:18

was open let

22:20

your neighbor and say this is your

22:22

moment don't

22:25

miss your moment this

22:28

message is a warning

22:30

do not miss your

22:32

moment the

22:34

window is open the

22:37

window is open the

22:39

window is open on

22:42

your moment somebody hollow out this

22:44

is my moment when

22:56

it was their moment everybody

22:59

knew it watch this the

23:02

disciples laid their coats

23:05

on the back of the coat Jesus

23:08

climbed on top

23:10

of the coat and

23:13

began to ride to

23:15

fulfill scriptures the

23:17

crowd almost as if on cue

23:20

started laying their garments in the

23:22

street without anybody

23:25

instructing them to they

23:28

start cutting down limbs and branches

23:30

and laying them down in the

23:33

street nobody choreographed

23:35

this every

23:40

person in here that's ever had an

23:42

amazing moment in your life go

23:44

back and remember nobody

23:46

choreographed no

23:52

human hand taught everybody how

23:54

to react to you you

23:57

just did something and

23:59

it just Can

24:03

I get a witness? Would

24:06

you tell them I'm not crazy? I think some of them think I'm crazy. Tell

24:09

them I'm not crazy. When

24:11

God is in the moment, when

24:17

God, if I tried to do

24:19

MegaFest right now, if

24:23

I tried to fill the Georgia Dome,

24:25

the World Congress Center, and the Phillips

24:28

Arena right now, everybody

24:32

would say you are crazy in

24:36

a pandemic. There's

24:39

a window. This is your

24:41

time. This

24:46

is your moment. There's

24:49

a few things I want you to get.

24:51

Number one, your blessing is tied up for

24:54

the moment. I want you to walk away

24:56

with that. I want to be sure you get

24:58

that. Number two,

25:00

it's been tied up all your life. You

25:06

have not seen the Shaddai,

25:08

O Shaddai. You have not

25:11

seen your greatest moment in

25:16

spite of what the enemy tells you, in

25:19

spite of all the miracles you've done in your past.

25:22

In spite of all the doors that have been

25:24

open, you have not seen your greatest moment. You

25:27

are on the precipice of your

25:29

greatest moment. It has been

25:31

tied up all your life. Number

25:35

three, I want you to understand that

25:38

you have never been, it

25:40

has never been chosen in

25:43

your lifetime. This is

25:45

for overlooked people. Do

25:48

you know how many people walk past this

25:51

donkey? Until

25:58

the donkey felt like, maybe I don't have it. I'm

26:02

getting ready for what's next. I

26:07

want to learn the language of the world. I want

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to be in a place where people are thinking forward.

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Count your blessings and be ready for more.

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For your gift of any amount, remind yourself

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of God's love all year with the Ready

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for More 2024 wall calendar. Faith

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will make you get ready for something that

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hasn't even there yet. Faith will make you

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start laying out plans and diagrams and getting

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ready and setting up a situation for something

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you can't even pay for. For your gift

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of $90 or more, you'll also receive the

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2023 custom Christmas ornament

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as a reminder of God's goodness. For

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your gift of $175 or more,

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you'll receive the Gifts of the

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Wise Men Anointing Oil Box Set,

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a beautiful wood box containing frankincense,

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myrrh, and symbolic faux gold in

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addition to the Christmas ornament and

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calendar. The only thing you have

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to do to get out of the situation you're

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in right now is change your

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mind. Anything is possible through

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God. Call or click today. Disruptive

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thinking, disruptive patterns of

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love, are essential for

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such a time as this.

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Great new old paradise. Shatter

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old paradise. Little

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experience and fresh ideas. Registration

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is now open for the 2024

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International Leadership Summit. In

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the area of road and elevator, we are hearing

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a lot of speakers entering the World War II

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shop. Coming up in St. Alex,

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Texas, is the 2024 International Leadership Summit, where

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the world's most visionary leaders gather. I want

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you to be in the room where it

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happens. Act now and secure next year's fun

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as a best possible place. I believe. Call

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or click today. You

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can register today at thisisils.org and

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empower your leadership journey. Feel

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free to reach out to us on social media and

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share your story of how God is impacting your life.

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We look forward to seeing you next time on the

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planet.