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Bold, bold than I ever been.

Bold than I ever thought possible. Bold than they ever seen in my generation,

bolder than they'll ever see again.

I'm gonna do something you've never seen before.

Self-preservation has an expiration date.

If you don't believe me, ask Moses, who went to Midian after he killed and became a murderer in Egypt.

He goes to Midian for 40 years. But after he's in Midian for 40 years, the Lord makes himself known to him in Midian to let him know that what you did to preserve yourself in Midian was good for where you were, but now it's time for you to come out because I got more work for you to do. You see, self-preservation is not the mission.

Your self-preservation is a method that you use as a vehicle. God help me to say it,

self-preservation is a vehicle, but it is not the destination. So I practice preserving myself

because I know that God has work for me to do, but I don't

make my mission protecting myself.

Because if I make my mission protecting myself, then I will miss out on the very reason

that I was created.

And so I have to learn to balance the reality that I do need to preserve myself and I do need to move with wisdom and I do need to have boundaries.

But I also need to know when none of that matters because it's time for me to step into something that requires vulnerability.

It's time for me to step into something that I've never seen before and I can't do it and be comfortable at the same time.

So self get ready to get uncomfortable because we're moving into mission mode.

You gotta know the difference between preservation mode and mission mode.

And I felt like God told me that there were just one or two people in this room

who were about to move from preservation mode and into mission

mode, that they did what they had to do to preserve themselves.

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