I love a house that understands that you stop and do what God say do when God says do it and don't ask about the program and all of those things.

And it's second service.

So y'all are the ones that like to hang so we can do a thing.

God's been messing with me all morning.

And he told me, my thing is like doing a thing to me all right there we go this morning

i pointed out to me that i'm just a few blocks away from where i used to live in dallas live downtown

across from the farmer's market and it was in that place a few blocks, that I went through the most intense crushing

of my life.

The sofa in that place was soaked with tears.

Me trying to write this book while it seemed like my life was burning down. There were a couple times I wasn't sure I was going to

make it. And so for God to bring me back here and realize I'm just a few blocks from where the

devil tried to take me out. I want you to know that the warfare coming against your life and the victory that's going to show up in your life,

they aren't necessarily that far apart. You're just a little few blocks. You're just a few blocks

from where you're going. Don't be discouraged. You're just a few blocks from where you're going.

And so when he showed me that this morning, I came up here, I had to choke back tears. And then just now, before I was going to come up, I realized that

Pastor Taylor, this is the last sermon I will preach in 2023. In a year that has been incredibly painful, incredibly victory-filled, when I say I'm ready to do something upside the devil said, like, I'm just like, oh, I'm getting ready to preach, preach.

I hope y'all ate before you came, because this is my last word. See, sometimes you feel like the devil's going to get the last word, but baby, this is my last word.

He tried to crush me to death, but God brought oil out.

He tried to make me believe I couldn't make it.

But God births something that's changing a generation.

He tried to tell me nobody would get the message.

But New York Times bestselling over

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