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The best kind of spiritual warfare to do is the warfare of love.

And God tests our faithfulness.

He starts by giving us something small and if we're faithful to use that properly, then he'll promote us.

And then we'll stay there for a while and we'll be tested on that level.

I can look at my ministry. The first two and a half years, I taught a home Bible study.

25 people in my living room floor every Tuesday night.

Two and a half years.

I quit a full-time job to study.

Every month we had to have a miracle just to pay our bills.

I remember buying my kids shoes at garage sales and we had some very tough lean years.

And then after a while somebody asked me to teach another Bible study in their home.

And so for two and a half years, I taught two Bible studies.

So first five years of my ministry was just teaching these home Bible studies.

And I would study six, seven hours for each message that I got back then because I didn't know anything.

I just knew that I was a mess and Jesus loved me and I was learning and just trying it out on everybody else to see if it would work for them like it was me.

It's a good thing that, you know, and to be honest, I could preach back then pretty much like I can now.

And I didn't understand why God kept me confined to that small amount of people.

But I could remember watching other preachers on television thinking, I don't know why you're on TV.

I could preach circles around you.

Okay, that's why I was still in my living room floor.

It wasn't because of what I could do. It was because of a wrong attitude that needed to be worked out of me.

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