"Genesis Of A Voice Pt.2: David & Nicole Binion Interview" S1 Ep4

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There probably hasn't ever been a time in history like this moment where people talk

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so much but say so little, where we are on information overload but a revelation deprivation.

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What does it take to possess a voice that releases heaven sound, that brings breakthrough

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and transformation and leaves the presence of God in its wake?

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Stay tuned to keep it 100 episode 4 where we will hear from David and Nicole Binyon

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as they share the genesis of their voice.

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Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Join us in this space where we take on real issues with real insight under real inspiration.

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Keep it 100!

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How you guys doing?

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Good, good.

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We're so glad to see your faces and be on this podcast with you.

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So fun to have you guys.

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We love you guys and just whenever we get the chance to be around you which is not as

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much as we want, we just love who you are and what you carry.

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Your sound which we're going to be talking about your sound today and there's been such

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a surrender in your sound and you hear the surrender because it's all about its presence

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in your services.

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Well we feel the same about you guys so we're just...

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I don't know that I've ever heard someone say that about hearing the surrender in the

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sound.

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I don't think that's...

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That's key though, that's it.

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That is huge, that's so accurate.

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The total abandon we said last night revival is so...

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It's essential.

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It is essential.

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Come on, this is going to be amazing.

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Yeah.

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All right, we're going to jump in this.

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When did you first discover that God had given you this voice to worship?

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What's interesting is David and I, we're about 10 years apart in age but our stories are

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so similar as far as our gifts being discovered and used at a very young age.

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So I was like four or five years old, my mom was a singer, my grandfather was a pastor,

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my mom was our choir director so she sang in our church and so from a very young age

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she's like, Nicole, I could sing, I could sing on pitch and I was probably about five

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years old.

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I mean we had an evangelist coming through town in our little assembly of God church.

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The evangelist's wife heard that I could, found her new singing at this little four or

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five year old girl.

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And she taught me this song and had me sing it at church that Sunday night.

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So for me, I just always growing up using my gift in church and in school as well.

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So just a young age, I knew I was always passionate about singing and I always hated being in

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front of people but I just, I loved singing so much that I would just get up there like

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knees knocking.

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I love it.

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So from a young age.

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That's awesome.

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Well, you had this incredible, flawless talent from a young age but the talent itself is

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that what changed the atmosphere when she sang.

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There was like, she discovered, you always tell the story when you remember when you

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were singing, oh how do you love you and me, the first time when you just felt as a child

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the love of Jesus.

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Wow.

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Come on, her.

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And it just, it so impacted what happened when she sang.

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She discovered something in him.

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I remember hearing her as a teenager, my sister and I were traveling singing and we would

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come, they're there a little, somebody got church and she would sing and that's even

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at 11 and 12 years old, we were astounded how the atmosphere changed when she sang.

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Wow.

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So she already carried this.

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Right.

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So here's this gift, here's a talent, it's recognized by everyone around you.

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You're constantly being like told in a great way, you're like, you're so gifted at this.

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And then there's this moment where you actually release it and you discover, wow, God's in

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this because they shift when I sing.

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So is there a specific moment that when that first recognition within yourself of like,

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God shifts things through me when I use my gift for him, my voice for him?

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You know, I think I probably didn't realize that God's using me to shift the atmosphere.

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I just remember just.

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God's shifting you.

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Oh, that's so good.

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Being able to sing like how it connected me to the Lord and how I, I was just felt the

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love of Jesus and knowing his love, feeling his love and being able to connect to him

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through my voice.

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I think it just, it marked me from a young age and kept me on a path of pursuing Jesus.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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For me, I was marked by God from the earliest memory I have.

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I don't have a memory in my life that I wasn't aware of him.

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I remember three years old and I watched a leg grow out.

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Wow.

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And so I'm just a kid watching this miracle happen as a child, not even really knowing

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how to get my mind around it.

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I just knew it was, I knew he was there and I just, I would always weep when I sensed

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As a little child, I'm weeping not because it's a miracle, but because I know it's

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him.

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I know he's real.

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Every season of my life, just a breath, focusing in his direction and suddenly he's there.

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And so it was just for me, but I grew up in an era where before there was a worship genre

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and we lived here in the South and we sang Southern gospel music with my family and all

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of our songs were about going to heaven.

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I love that.

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When we all get to heaven, what a day, every joy, every, I'll fly away, oh boy.

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All of the old hymns and they were always about going to heaven.

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So I was, I think I was 15 when I was in a church in Kentucky and it was like very traditional

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Pentecostal kind of old, hammy church.

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And for the first time they'd sang all these songs, but at the end of their worship set,

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and it wasn't even called a worship set.

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They started singing for the first time in July.

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They started singing O come let us adore him.

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And I'm 15 and the atmosphere shift.

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And I was like, okay, what?

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I couldn't even get my mind around it yet.

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Now again, I've always known the presence.

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My mom and dad could peel the pain off the wall with their prayer.

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It was like, I always knew the presence because they walked in the power of God.

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And even in those services you would sing and you'd get going fast enough and it's all

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Pentecostal and you would get goosebumps and you think goosebumps are the measuring line

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that this is the anointing.

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But in this moment at 15, I was like something turned for me and I didn't even know what

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to do with it.

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We traveled in a gray hand bus.

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I remember everybody's, I don't know where everybody is on the bus by myself and I've

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been reading my Bible and I remembered what happened in surfacing out before and I put

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my hands on these little closet doors and I'm standing there and I just start singing

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Oh come let us adore me.

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Oh come in the wind of God came.

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And it wrecked me.

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I didn't want to move because I thought if I moved a finger it would go and I wanted

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to stay in this presence.

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And so I just began to practice that privately for months.

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I still didn't know how to translate it to our, when we all get to heaven services.

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Right, because it was different.

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It was a whole different world.

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But I remember we went to this one church and it seemed like it was like the deadest

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church.

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You know it's like you sing all the high songs and the fast songs and push all the buttons

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that make people respond.

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Well none of those buttons were working in this particular service.

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But meanwhile privately I've been walking in this exchange with the Lord on a daily

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basis and more out of desperation than anything else.

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I just needed His presence in this service and none of my family knew what I was going

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to do.

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I was the youngest but I'm playing the piano.

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And so I just closed my eyes and hit this key and started singing for the first time

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in church for me.

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Oh come let us adore me.

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And my family found harmony and started singing along and I opened my eyes and what had been

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dead church suddenly an entire congregation.

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It's on their feet caught up in this.

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Wow.

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And I'm like I'm 15.

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Oh my.

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And I'm like this is why I'm on the planet.

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Wow.

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That's awesome.

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Wow.

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And so with that I had started writing music but I was writing all of these going to heaven's

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arms.

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Right.

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You'll never hear any of those songs.

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But I started writing worship music.

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It took me a couple years before I started doing that because I started I had to walk

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through this process.

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Right.

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And the Lord just started shipping it for me.

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And so I started writing these songs.

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Even at 18 I had this one song that I wrote called Ode for a Thousand Tongues that became

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like Song of the Year.

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And it was it was a song that God would use as a tool to open doors for us.

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That's a phenomenal song.

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And it was it was but it was it's like I realized God you really do inhabit the praise of your

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people.

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And I remembered there was an old him over a thousand tongues to sing.

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And so I wrote a modern version because I said God this is how I feel.

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If you will show up for me all by myself what would happen if I had a thousand tongues and

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use every one.

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If one gets me here what would a thousand where would that get me.

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And so it just became my passion and it like it set my course.

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I love that.

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I love that as you begin to shift the worship from the heavens that will be in heaven one

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day so it's to exaltation.

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Totally.

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And I feel like you guys are such a great model of worship that exalts.

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We have worship that is responding to God.

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Our emotional response to God.

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There's nothing wrong with those.

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But there I can always tell the difference in a service when the when the songs we're

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singing are songs of exaltation.

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They're relational.

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That's right.

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And so there's a total shift in the atmosphere when we shift from I feel this way I feel

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this way I feel this way to God who are you.

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I'm declaring who you are in my circumstances in the situation because you never change.

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Your character is the same yesterday today and forever.

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And when we take a posture of just declaring who God is despite how we feel everything

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shifts but you to model that exaltation worship so well which I guess leads me to my question

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number two for you guys.

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How did you guys discover your sound together because you discovered it individually now

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your husband and wife now you're leading together.

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What did that look like because let's call it the Benyans sound.

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There's a distinct sound the Benyans have like I can hear it.

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I've heard your songs on the radio.

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I've heard your songs for years.

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Oh that's the Benyans like there's a sound you have that God has released through you

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guys and how did you discover that what's the process because again we're talking about

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the genesis of a voice.

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How did that process come through in your worship together as husband and wife.

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Yeah well I would say musically just like musical influences in the church I think you

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know both of us when we got married we were David was a pastor at our church outside of

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Chicago very diverse congregation and the music of the church was had a gospel flair to it

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so I feel like that part of our sound like that soulful gospel sound just because of

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just how we were influenced and when we discovered that exuberant expression in the church like

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our we I think we kind of came alive then you know we're married for a few years we

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have this experience we in the presence of God that just wrecked us you know through

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really one of our spiritual fathers Tommy Tinney he came through to our church and just put

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us on a path we end up you know resigning our position at that church we end up going

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to just a full time itinerant ministry and did for a few years just did a ton of meetings

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with Tommy Tinney who at that time you know God was using he was writing a book called

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the God Chasers and so we were going all over the nation David went to a few other countries

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with Tommy and facilitating I mean just the hunger of God's people and so we were just

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I mean those days those few years of services where we're just in the presence of God for

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hours I feel like that is what develop are really the sound of worship that comes out

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of us.

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Let me let me say like this because what we encountered we knew the press we knew the

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anointing right up in an experienced and anything you can imagine in terms of miracles that

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talked about that my dad was the even evangelist I remember is 13 and it's on my dad raised

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the debt so I've been around the anointing but I had never known the glory and the realm

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of glory is such an incredible death it's Tommy Tinney always taught us is the anointing

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will enable you but the glory will disable you and when Solomon dedicated the temple

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the priests were unable to minister because of the cloud when the glory invaded our church

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I it was frightening and I remember climbing under the piano.

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You know the story of the piano afraid to move and I was there for five hours and it

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felt like 20 minutes but it messed me up but what happened is when I got up I had no song

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in my arsenal that was appropriate for what we were experiencing and so out of that came

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the prophetic.

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Yeah, right.

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There were no songs so I had to just like we would for there were months that the glory

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was in the church and we would drive on the property and I drive into his presence and

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it's like you didn't have to start over you just pick up where you left off and it was

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like all of my planning was inappropriate for the glory that was there so I had to shift

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and figure out how to navigate that that has been the driving force it's been the carrot

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and fun of the race horse that drives us because it's like every time we have worship there

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have been I don't know that I've ever encountered the same degree as I did that first time there

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are moments when maybe there's a 30 minute window so every time we go into any session

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any worship set were like could this be the day you come again and do that and reveal

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yourself like that again and so it's like it's what gives us the authority to worship.

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You know there are people that sing songs and learn arrangements and do and they're

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anointed right.

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So the anointing enables the glory disables and for me it's all about the surrender.

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Yeah right.

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It's those years were really that when you talk about the sound of surrender that's

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when that was hewn out.

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I mean that's you know those those years of plan for it right you couldn't prep for it

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other than your prep was surrender.

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Yes.

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I didn't mean to cut you off.

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No, no that's that's it.

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That's really the sound of surrender was really developed in us over those few years and you

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know we've had we'll have like you know occasionally a husband and wife who lead worship together

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like how do you and David flow together like this and how do you know we want to be able

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to do that.

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I'm like you know it was really those few years of just being in those services together

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and not just and just dive in it.

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So what's it called the friend fall the trust the trust.

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Yes.

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It's like you get to this place you're like God I don't know if this is going to work

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right but I'm going for it right and you just dive in thinking you're going to make you're

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going to look like an idiot but then suddenly God gives you totally the moment.

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Like I remember coming to Vegas and I don't know if you were on staff at the time when

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we came at international church of life.

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And I wrote on the spot jumping the river.

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It was it was one of these moments.

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I was there for that.

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So what happened is I were leading worship that night and I feel like it's the glory

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it's the carrot it's the God I feel like we're at it.

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These people are almost to the dropping off spot.

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And if I just knew how to nudge them and in this whole congregation is going to fall into

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that place.

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And so while I'm there these lurches just start coming out of me.

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I sit at the edge of the river where the water is shallow and safe and I can still keep my

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balance or get out if they make any way.

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I love to come to the river be refreshed from the sun and the heat but just standing here

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is getting me nowhere.

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I keep hearing a call from the deep.

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I think I'll go ahead and jump in.

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I surrender my body and soul.

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I'm losing my inhibitions.

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I've decided to give up control.

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And every every sentence came then the next one came.

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If I sink if I swim I just want to get to him and I just started jumping and then the

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place.

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Oh, I remember.

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They just ran to the front and at one point it's just chaos.

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It's divine chaos.

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Yes.

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It's this pathetic moment.

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And then all the young people are over on this side of the stage.

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That's a real high stage.

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Yes.

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And for those of you on the podcast I'm pointing to my left.

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And I see them and they look at me and they kind of we kind of read each other's minds

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and I look at them and they not like they knew what I was about to do and I ran and

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dove.

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I remember this.

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And dove off the stage.

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Off the stage.

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It's like a six foot stage.

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Right.

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And they caught me.

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I was like, oh my God, this is going to be really good or really bad.

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Talk about a test fall.

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The prophetic gesture brought this but it was the risk.

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It was always I never let myself contemplate the notion when it comes I just trust fall.

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I'm like, okay, here I go.

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And it's not again, it's not about the voice.

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It's the voice within the voice.

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It's not about the sound, although it is, but it's sound within the sound.

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I think what's cool is the sound within the sound.

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You know, it still comes through me as an individual, David as an individual.

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However, the worship leader is, it's like it is the sound within the sound, but it comes

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through this vessel.

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So that's what's so cool about the unique sound of different worship leaders and different,

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you know, when God speaks for me, this is this is how I describe it.

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When God speaks and you see picture, then he lets me use my vocabulary to describe the

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picture.

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Right.

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Right.

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So that's that's how we get to co-labor with him and partner with him.

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Kind of.

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It's so powerful.

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I mean, I'm getting rocks here.

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Right.

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I mean, it's just what I love is you guys were fashioned in the glory of God.

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I mean, your sound was fashioned.

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I mean, and that's the marking point, right?

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Those are the markers that when we have those encounters with God shifts from just a nice

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service with total sincere hearts.

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Like we show up and like, cool, we're worshiping God.

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Then all of a sudden we begin to exalt, we begin to declare, we begin to prophesy out

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of the spirit of God within us.

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We begin to declare what he's saying at that moment in that meeting as we gather.

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Holy spirit falls, glory of God falls.

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You find yourself under a piano for five hours, which feels like 20 minutes.

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You're on the floor, songless is out the door.

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I mean, because there's nothing in us to be able to articulate or to worship this in this

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moment because we don't quite know what to do because we know we're in a realm that's

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not of the natural.

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We're in a realm of the spirit.

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And so again, I said at the beginning, but there's an ability of your maturity, but again,

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we discovered how that happened.

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There was years of you just willing to go to unknown territory to look foolish, to not

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be in control, to just surrender, whatever it looks like.

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You're like, I don't care.

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And your constant push for the more of God comes from previous encounters, which leads

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us to more encounters, right?

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So how do you teach the next generation this?

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We have this upcoming generation that's a worship generation.

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I mean, we've seen worship ministries that have had an influence of sounds and gathered

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people at stadium levels to worship, just to worship because there's such a cry to worship.

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People love music.

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They love to worship.

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But there's a shift from just a worship song service, which can still be anointed.

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But I feel like done are the days of just a nice song service.

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We have to have more.

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You guys represent the more.

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How do you translate that to a generation?

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Because maybe a lot of people don't know if your daughter Gracie sings with you.

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And she's incredible.

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She's written one of my favorite songs.

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I mean, I had it on repeat.

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And she's the sweetest person.

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She's just, she's really special.

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I mean, that's the best way to describe her.

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She's really special.

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So you guys have modeled that in your family, but you're also called to raise up a generation

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of worshipers, not just leaders, not just worship leaders.

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I'm talking about there's only a handful that are going to be worship leaders.

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Right.

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But how do you raise up a generation that love to worship?

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But you, you take them beyond the set and you bring them to a place of the surrender,

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of the, of the glory.

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How, how do we do that?

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Well, our main passion in life and this season of our life is we are now mom and pop to a

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generation of young people.

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And what's interesting is like when we launched our church, all the kids call me Papa David.

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I love that.

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But just what we've done is just made ourselves available.

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Yeah.

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It's like we really open up our heart and we just be accessible to them and walk it out.

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I know for me, the way I found the places I would, I would be with people.

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I remember as a kid, always wanting to be around the adults or the pastors and hear

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their conversation.

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And so when they didn't even know I was listening, but I would just, I was so intrigued because

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I was hungry for more.

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Right.

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I was hungry for the more and I didn't even know what the more was.

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And then I remember when, when Tommy Taney came to our church, I went to, over to the

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pastor's house, he was staying over there and I just like, I asked him, can I just come?

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I just want to be around you.

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I just need to be around you.

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And I need to know what you do.

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I need to know how you do your life.

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I just want to be near you.

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And he just embraced me and why don't you just go with me to Iceland?

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I got a tip.

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Why don't you just go with me?

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And I remember he was in the process of writing God Chaser.

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He'd give me chapters to proofread.

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And there were times I had to like on a plane and I had to like run to the bathroom and

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close the door so that I could heave and cry.

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So people wouldn't think I'm having a nervous breakdown because I was so wrecked.

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So for me, he did that for me.

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I see these young and not just music people, but I just see people, I don't know, when

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God gives you the mandate, you don't even have to strive.

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It's like you're like a magnet and it pulls people.

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And when they come to you, you just love.

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And so I try to be in close enough relationship that they just see it.

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They must see me per se.

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The sound of surrender and those moments of prophetic flow or whatever, that does not

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come without a life of surrender.

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So like when you're walking this out on a platform, while we're going through that process of

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God doing this in us, we also, I mean, like we stepped away from all financial security.

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We had a four month old baby.

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You're like totally living this trust fall with the Lord in just complete surrendering

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our life.

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So really showing and teaching this generation, like it just doesn't happen on the stage.

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It has to happen in your heart and in your life or it to overflow out of you.

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It's like, well, you know, even with our kids and we have a 22 year old son is about to

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be married and, you know, we're having this conversation the other night.

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You know, just the intensity of just like real life and responsibility.

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He's feeling the weight of that, you know, we're like, this is when you really get to

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dive into like trusting the Lord, knowing the Lord for yourself.

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Like you're working as hard as you can.

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You're doing all this thing.

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You're doing the best you can.

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You commit, you bring your time to the Lord, you know, but then you just, you just trust

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him.

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You put your faith in him.

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And so it's like, this doesn't just apply, right?

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To singers and musicians and people who are, but it's really walking it out and coming

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to the place of as parents, it's hard to, you know, see your natural kids and your spiritual

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kids kind of walk through this sometimes and like the loneliness or the friends falling

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away.

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You know, and it's like, God, if you just lean into the Lord in this season, you know,

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he's going to do something so special in you.

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Well, the truth is you talked about the people, the friends that fall away because you, you

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live in this place.

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And unless someone has had a similar encounter, they have no clue what you're talking about.

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And so they just kind of like treat you like you're almost just, you feel isolated.

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Right.

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And it took years of walking this because of the relational encounters that we were having.

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And the proof was always in the pudding, but it was like, it wasn't in the relationship.

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There were a lot of lonely years of walking this out and people thinking you're nuts.

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Right.

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But now you've got this legacy and people are like, how do we do this?

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How do we do this?

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Right.

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And it just cost everything.

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You know, I love what you guys are saying.

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You're saying so many jewels, but a few things that are just sticking out that I felt like

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just even for our listeners, they're a really great takeaway.

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The sound of our voice and what we release has to come from a place of surrender, has

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to come from a place of encounter.

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There has to be a time where we step beyond just the routine and the planned and the normal

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and we get into a place where we just say, God, whatever it looks like, we don't care.

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We just need you.

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And then we have to teach the next generation a posture of surrender and they're going to

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have their own sound.

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We're not trying to have them duplicate the sound, but we can model how to get that sound

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for themselves.

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We can model surrender.

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We can model surrender and you can model that trust ball.

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You can model the faith as you guys were talking about, but it has to come through allowing

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people into your life.

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Yes.

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Right?

476
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Oh yeah.

477
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:55,640
And you have to make space for people to get into your life.

478
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,720
You have to be able to have a space for people that's so busy, so demanding and we're pretty

479
00:26:58,720 --> 00:26:59,720
private.

480
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,120
It's like having a relationship, letting people into your life.

481
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:02,120
It's risky.

482
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,120
It takes time.

483
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:04,120
It's inconvenient.

484
00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:05,120
Right.

485
00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:09,080
But we have a spiritual responsibility and I'm actually going to take it to a more, maybe

486
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,120
a more positive place in the word responsibility.

487
00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:15,400
We have a gift to be able to share with the generation.

488
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,400
What I love is I'm here.

489
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,640
You guys have had people in your homes.

490
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,720
You've opened up your lives.

491
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,240
You've had the late night conversations.

492
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,160
You've been accessible.

493
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,280
You've had a space on the platform for people as well.

494
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:28,280
Yes.

495
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,280
That's it.

496
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,800
And I feel like that's so huge for the next generation.

497
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,360
If we want people impacted because we can look at the next generation going, man, they

498
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,360
need an encounter.

499
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,040
We have to show them.

500
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,040
What does that look like?

501
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,120
We have to model how that happens.

502
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,360
And again, theirs is going to look different, but you guys have done that so well.

503
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:48,080
I mean, I've seen it in your family, but I've also seen you last night even just and that's

504
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,080
not the first time.

505
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,440
Of course, I've been around you guys with, I've seen that every time for the last, what

506
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,720
15 years I've been around you guys.

507
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,880
You've always had other people on the platform with you.

508
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,320
It's never just been you guys.

509
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:04,440
It's always been a company of worshipers saying, come on, let's do this together.

510
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,680
Let's go after the more God.

511
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:06,680
I love that.

512
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:07,680
I want to jump in too, Nicole.

513
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:13,480
You said something so powerful because I feel like sometimes what is showcasing this generation,

514
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:19,560
you know, that it's the famous, the selfie you address is what they portray on the platform.

515
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:25,240
But you were saying it's really your lifestyle, that it's what God has done privately in your

516
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,600
heart that you walk out day in and day out highlights in that moment what happens on

517
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,600
the platform.

518
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,880
That was so profound.

519
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,400
That principal, H.W.

520
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,160
Tozer said, if you don't worship Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

521
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,440
Wednesday, Saturday, what do you do on Sunday?

522
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,440
Say that again, David.

523
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,760
Say that again.

524
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,880
If you don't worship Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, what you

525
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,880
do on Sunday is not worship.

526
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:49,880
Because we've made it.

527
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:50,880
What is worship?

528
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,240
Well, that's what we do on Sunday.

529
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,640
We sing three fast songs and two slow songs.

530
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,840
Worship has to do with the song list we do at Church on Sunday.

531
00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,840
That's not worship.

532
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,920
That is a vehicle that we get to ride in with our worship.

533
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,520
But it's always been the posture of one's heart.

534
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,520
It's this.

535
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,480
You've said worship is the sound our life makes.

536
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,440
You know, anytime the Lord asks you to step out and do something, right, it's, I mean,

537
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:22,360
it's scary, it's a walk of faith, it's sometimes lonely and that's tough.

538
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:27,320
But it's like just, that's when he becomes everything.

539
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,640
You know, last night as we were having our dual revival service and Dante Bo was here

540
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,440
with us and he was leading and he was saying, Jesus, you're not just the main thing.

541
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,880
You are the one thing.

542
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,440
You are everything.

543
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,840
I remember when we were traveling, while it was amazing, we were experiencing this stuff,

544
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,520
you know, in these Tommy Tent, you know, these God chaser meetings and we're just experiencing

545
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,600
the Lord, but God was doing such a work in me.

546
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,880
I was so miserable half of the time because here we are traveling with this baby.

547
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:54,880
I'm leaving my family.

548
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,440
You know, I was in my early twenties and just lonely.

549
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,440
I mean, there are times, but it was like, that's like, my parents can't fix this.

550
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:07,840
My husband, who's an amazing husband, can't fix this as far as like my heart, my loneliness

551
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:08,840
of my heart.

552
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:09,840
Right, right.

553
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:15,200
And Jesus truly became, and I know we're the body of Christ and we need each other.

554
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,720
So I know we need each other, but at the end of the day, if all I have is Jesus, He is

555
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,220
everything I need.

556
00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:26,480
And it's, but it's that season of discovery of that.

557
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,520
I mean, there's no other way to get around it.

558
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:29,520
Right.

559
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:30,520
There's no other way to guess at that point.

560
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,760
It's the process of making Him first.

561
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:38,440
And that means if He has to do it, He will eliminate all of those distractions out of

562
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,720
your body so they can't be the only thing that matters.

563
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,080
And then of course, God brings you beautiful.

564
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,160
It's like, what's the past scripture?

565
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:52,320
We'll get a hundredfold in this life, but the thing is what we give up, what we give

566
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,360
up, God gives back to us.

567
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,360
Yes, it's the pruning.

568
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,360
And it is the pruning.

569
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:02,920
He gives back to us in relationships and He gives back and then suddenly you have sons

570
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,320
and daughters that you're pouring into and you're watching and you're empowering them.

571
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:14,480
You're giving them a place to make mistakes, not chastise them too much if they make mistakes,

572
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,920
but just I'd watch them learn from making mistakes how to make things right.

573
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,000
Instead of telling them you did it wrong, I let them come to me and I messed up.

574
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,160
And then I say, no, it's okay.

575
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,120
Just let this teach you.

576
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:34,400
So I love being able to help shape people and walk them and make them give them self-worth

577
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,360
and empower them to be what God's called them to be and speak like into them.

578
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,560
I just seen the power of declaration at work.

579
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:43,560
So powerfully guys.

580
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:44,560
That is.

581
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,080
Hey, this question I'm super excited about.

582
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,360
What advice would you give your younger self?

583
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,520
Such a good question.

584
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,160
Okay, on a practical level, don't spend money you don't have.

585
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,160
Say that.

586
00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,160
That's good.

587
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,160
That's good.

588
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,000
Don't spend money you don't have.

589
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000
It's a practical level, but it impacts everything right?

590
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,520
Even impacts our ability to say, okay, Lord, I'll follow you wherever whatever you I mean

591
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:10,520
it can impact.

592
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:11,520
Sure.

593
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,520
I'll follow you Lord, but I got all this debt.

594
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,520
Yeah, because it ties you down.

595
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:16,520
Yeah.

596
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:17,520
It constricts you.

597
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:18,520
Absolutely.

598
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,520
Yeah.

599
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:24,080
And I think for me on a spiritual level, I feel like I always struggled of not feeling

600
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,280
worthy of the call or worthy of the platform or work.

601
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:33,040
So while I do know, like I see the humility in that, but I do feel like there are a lot

602
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:39,440
of times and moments in my life that I struggled just because I didn't feel worthy or good

603
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:40,440
enough.

604
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:41,440
Sure.

605
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,440
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

606
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,440
And so I, you know, like Nicole, you're worthy of this.

607
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,440
Absolutely.

608
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,440
Yes.

609
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:46,920
And simply because this the Lord called you to it.

610
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,160
So you're worthy to be in any room that God puts you in.

611
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,400
You're worthy to be on any platform that God puts you in.

612
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:54,400
I love that.

613
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,400
That's amazing.

614
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,400
I think so many people struggle with that.

615
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,400
Right?

616
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,960
Because we judge ourselves not from how God sees us, but how we see ourselves.

617
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:03,960
Right?

618
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,560
So we're always going to come up short with that measuring stick.

619
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,560
Yeah.

620
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,360
And so when you get that revelation of, no, I'm worthy simply because God called me in

621
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,360
his story.

622
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,640
God doesn't call me for my lack.

623
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,160
He calls me from who he sees me.

624
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,160
Yeah.

625
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,160
Sees me as.

626
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,160
Yeah.

627
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,160
I love that.

628
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,160
It's huge.

629
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,160
Okay.

630
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,160
What you got.

631
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,160
Come on, David.

632
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,160
Just say yes.

633
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,160
Just say yes.

634
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,160
Yeah.

635
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,800
And then you can drag your feet.

636
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:34,280
Don't give yourself the opportunity to talk yourself out of what you feel God saying,

637
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,320
even if you're not sure it's him, just say yes.

638
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,760
I learned how to hear him.

639
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:45,280
There was this one point where I felt God was speaking to me and I'm just a kid, but

640
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,960
I'm in church and I feel like God's giving me a word and I just don't even know what

641
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:49,960
to do with it.

642
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,320
And then all of a sudden someone across the room starts giving the exact word and I left

643
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,040
defeated thinking, God, I didn't obey you.

644
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,960
And then my mom encouraged me and she gave me a scripture that said the prophets are

645
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:05,240
subject to the prophets and I didn't understand that, but it felt right.

646
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,240
And so I was like, okay.

647
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:11,440
But then I got to this other point again where I felt God was saying something to me and

648
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,760
I was like, I remember making this decision.

649
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:19,040
God, I don't know if this is you, but I think it's you and I want you to know that I'll

650
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,040
say yes to even what I think is you.

651
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:27,560
And so I spoke out what I thought God was saying and it kind of felt flat, but it was

652
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,560
okay.

653
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,560
I felt like I did the right thing.

654
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,840
Nobody, we didn't have the Pentecostal response when I said it.

655
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,400
But then the next time there was the stronger unction to say it.

656
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,360
I'm like, and I already made the decision.

657
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,000
I'm just going to say it.

658
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,720
And again, I'm not even fully aware of what I'm doing except I'd given it in my yes

659
00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:54,560
and I would just say it and then there was the stronger and I get the Pentecostal response.

660
00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:00,560
But so it's like the more I would hear his voice that are his, the impression of God,

661
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:05,720
maybe not an audible voice, but the impression and I would just more I gave myself to it

662
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:08,560
and would respond then the clearer it became.

663
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,960
And I realized even how it comes, it doesn't come from me.

664
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:13,960
It comes through me.

665
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:14,960
Yeah.

666
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,920
I always love when you share that about hearing the voice of God and obeying because so many

667
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,720
people, I'm sure you guys heard this question so many times, how do you know it's God and

668
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:23,920
how do you know?

669
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:28,880
And I love it when you share that because I think it's so teachable to like, okay, God,

670
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,280
my heart is, if I think this is you, I'm going to obey.

671
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,200
And usually it's a matter of just laying down our own pride, right?

672
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,840
Man, if we haven't told you guys already today, you're amazing.

673
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:47,320
And honestly, your wisdom and what you, I mean, what you guys brought was this rich life

674
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,680
that you've lived for God.

675
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,080
And we got these snippets of just, right?

676
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,760
This access to your story and your journey, which not only bless me, I know it's going

677
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:01,440
to bless our listeners, but I feel like if we grab ahold of what you guys shared today,

678
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:06,320
lives will be changed, transformed because it's all about the surrender.

679
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,440
It's all about the yes.

680
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,840
At the end of the day, we have one life to give for Jesus.

681
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,840
Let's give it everything.

682
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:12,840
Right?

683
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,680
He's so worthy of it all.

684
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:20,120
You guys are obviously pastoring, dual church here in Texas.

685
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:24,320
Is there any way that people that are listening can get in contact with you or any kind of

686
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,600
project that you guys have coming up that we could support you guys on?

687
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:28,600
Yeah.

688
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:36,200
Well, David and I, earlier this year in 2020, before pre COVID life, we released a brand

689
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,480
new worship album called the glory of Eden.

690
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:40,480
That's available.

691
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,160
It's available on all digital platforms, you know, Apple Music Spotify, all the places.

692
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:51,120
We have dual church Dallas YouTube channel, dual church Dallas, you know, Facebook page,

693
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,800
dual.church is the website.

694
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,920
I found number, he has.

695
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,240
PayPal donations.

696
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:00,240
Right.

697
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:05,000
But you know, God's doing something beautiful here and it's exciting.

698
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:12,400
It's another season of yes for us and just stepping out and just going, okay, God.

699
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:13,400
But yeah.

700
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:14,400
You tricked us.

701
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:20,400
You guys have done an incredible job gathering a community of worshipers and people that

702
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,160
just want the more of God.

703
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,160
So thanks for your guys.

704
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,160
We love you guys.

705
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,160
You guys are awesome.

706
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,160
Oh man.

707
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,280
Thanks for taking time with us and just talking with us.

708
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,280
We love you guys so much.

709
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,280
This is so great.

710
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,720
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711
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:37,520
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