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I like to start with something funny. I heard about this elderly lady that was close to death. She had never been married.

She called her pastor over to talk about her funeral. She said that she only wanted female Paul Barerson.

Pastor looked at her kind of strange and asked why. She said, the men wouldn't take me out when I was alive. They're not going to take me out when I'm dead.

Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus name. God bless you.

I want to talk to you today about rest from your enemies. We all have things that come against us and try to keep us from our destiny.

Most of what we struggle with didn't start with us. It was passed down. Things like depression, addictions, anger, divorce, studies show how that can get passed from generation to generation.

If your mother was depressed, there's a good chance you'll have to deal with depression. If your father was an alcoholic, had anger issues, wasn't faithful to his wife, those are traits that can affect you.

Just like a lady that's own drugs and gives birth to a baby, that baby can have the same addiction as the mother. There's no fault of the babies. It's just life.

The good news is there is a way to put a stop to it. What you're dealing with may not have started with you, but it can stop with you. God wants to give you rest from those enemies.

He wants to put an end to what's limiting you. There's something we have to do. As long as we accept dysfunction as the norm, it will never change.

If you see that addiction, that depression, that lack and struggle, as you're a lot in life, you're not only get stuck, but you'll pass it on to the next generation.

This is what the Israelites did. In Judges 15, the Philistines had been ruling over them for 40 years. An angel appeared to a young lady and said, you're going to have a son, you are to name him Sampson.

He's going to have supernatural strength. He will deliver the Israelites from the Philistines. As he grew up, the Philistines could tell there was something different about Sampson.

Every time they tried to bind him, he would break those cords. He was a huge threat to them. So the Philistines circled the Israelites camp and were about to attack.

The men of Judah went out and said, hey, why are you coming against us? We're not bothering you. We're your slaves. They said we've come to get Sampson. He's causing us trouble.

Instead of recognizing that Sampson had been raised up to deliver them from the Philistines, instead of saying, yes, this is a new day.

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