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Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 5: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 5: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. Well,

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Speaker 5: God bless you. It is always a joyed of coming

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Speaker 5: coming out, Thanks for tuning in. I like to start

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Speaker 5: each week with something kind of funny. And I heard

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Speaker 5: You forgot my toast. All right, Hold up your Bible.

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Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about staying open for something new.

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Speaker 5: God is getting you prepared for the new things He's

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Speaker 5: Don't you dare think I can't do this. I don't

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Speaker 5: new level of my destiny. I saw a documentary on

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Speaker 5: Just his strategy and the way he thought and planned

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Speaker 5: what was meant for your harm and use it to

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Speaker 5: your advantage. Several years later, my father left the insurance

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Speaker 5: business and he got back into the ministry. Things begin

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Speaker 5: to flourish. One day he met my mother. They fell

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Speaker 5: in love, got married. God blessed them with four average

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Speaker 5: children and one exceptional child, who I didn't say, as me,

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Speaker 5: you're gonna hurt Paul's feelings down here. But I think

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Speaker 5: about how we wouldn't be here today if my father

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Speaker 5: had not stayed open to a plan different than his,

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Speaker 5: if he had not been willing to dream a new dream,

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Speaker 5: he'd have never met my mother. I probably would have

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Speaker 5: never been born. There may not be a lakewood in life.

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Speaker 5: There will always be voices telling us you blew it,

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Speaker 5: you had your chance, it's over.

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Speaker 4: Just settle where you are. Don't believe those lies.

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Speaker 5: If you get knocked down, get back up again. It's

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Speaker 5: not over until God says it's over. My father went

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Speaker 5: from being a popcorn salesman to a minister, to an

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Speaker 5: insurance salesman, back to being a minister. That tells me

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Speaker 5: God knows how to connect the dots. God knows how

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Speaker 5: to get you to your final destination. Some of you today,

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Speaker 5: you may have been through a disappointment. Something didn't work out.

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Speaker 5: Maybe it was even your fault. But God is saying

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Speaker 5: I've still got a plan. Dream a new dream, get

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Speaker 5: your fireback, get your enthusiasm back. Just because it didn't

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Speaker 5: happen one way doesn't mean it's over. When life deals

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Speaker 5: you a lemon, God can make lemonade. He can take

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Speaker 5: your mess and turn it into your message. It's time

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Speaker 5: to arise and shine. In the early nineteen hundreds, farmers

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Speaker 5: back in Alabama were facing a major challenge. A tiny

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Speaker 5: little insect called the bull weavil had migrated from South

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Speaker 5: America and it was quickly destroying their crops. They tried

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Speaker 5: everything they could do to get rid of it. They

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Speaker 5: exterminated with all kinds of pesticides.

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Speaker 4: And they even came up with new.

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Speaker 5: Formulas they'd never used before, still to no avail. Eventually,

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Speaker 5: all they could do is sit back and watch their

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Speaker 5: crops and their livelihood be eaten away. They were so

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Speaker 5: discouraged it looked like it was over. But one day,

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Speaker 5: as they were sitting around kind of defeated, kind of down,

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Speaker 5: a man came up.

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Speaker 4: With an idea.

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Speaker 5: He said, instead of planning our normal cotton crops that

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Speaker 5: we know won't survive, why don't we try something new.

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Speaker 5: Let's plant peanuts. They looked at him like a cow

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Speaker 5: at a new gate.

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Speaker 4: They said, peanuts.

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Speaker 5: We could never make a living off of peanuts. He

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Speaker 5: eventually talked him into it. What they discovered was the

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Speaker 5: bowl weavils did not like the taste of peanuts. Those

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Speaker 5: crops took off and flourished like nothing they had ever

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Speaker 5: seen before. They made more money in several months than

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Speaker 5: they normally made in a whole year. In fact, even

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Speaker 5: when the bowl weavils left, they didn't go back to

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Speaker 5: their cotton crops.

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Speaker 4: They stuck with peanuts.

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Speaker 5: They went on to produce more peanuts than any country

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Speaker 5: in the world.

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Speaker 4: Friends, God has a plan.

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Speaker 5: You may have some bowl weavils bothering you right now,

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Speaker 5: but don't worry.

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Speaker 4: There are some peanuts in your future.

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Speaker 5: What you may think is a setback is really a

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Speaker 5: set up for a greater comeback. I love the fact

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Speaker 5: that the bowl weavils did not like the taste of peanuts.

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Speaker 5: That tells me God always has something in my future

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Speaker 5: that the enemy cannot touch. He always has some way

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Speaker 5: to prosper me, some way to heal us, some way

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Speaker 5: to restore us, some way to bring our dreams to pass.

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Speaker 5: And even when it looks difficult, even when things don't

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Speaker 5: work out, just remind yourself these bowl weavils may be

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Speaker 5: causing me some problems, they may not even go away,

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Speaker 5: But really I'm not worried about it.

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Speaker 4: I know they.

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Speaker 5: Can't touch my harvest. God has given them a distaste

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Speaker 5: for what belongs to me. That person at the office

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Speaker 5: that always gets on your nerves annoys you next time

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Speaker 5: you see him, just think to yourself, he just a

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Speaker 5: bowl weavil. He can't touch my harvest. This shows us

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Speaker 5: how God's plan is better than our plan. Had it

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Speaker 5: not been for the bowl weavils, the farmers would have

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Speaker 5: never tried peanuts. They would have just kept producing their

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Speaker 5: normal crops over and over all, the while missing out

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Speaker 5: on the abundance that should have been theirs. When you fay,

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Speaker 5: that's an adversity, that set back, that disappointment, you don't know

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Speaker 5: where it's taken you. You've heard the saying when you're

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Speaker 5: down to nothing, God is up to something.

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Speaker 4: When it looks like your crops are being eaten up.

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Speaker 5: God is not on the throne saying, oh man, what

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Speaker 5: am I gonna do? Who let the bow weavils out? No,

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Speaker 5: God is in complete control. He has a way even

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Speaker 5: when we don't see away.

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Speaker 4: Here's the key.

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Speaker 5: Had those farmers not been open for something new and

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Speaker 5: been willing to reinvent themselves, they could still be sitting

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Speaker 5: around saying, just my love too bad for me. A

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Speaker 5: little insect ruined my future. No, nothing has to destroy

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Speaker 5: your future. When one dream dies dreaming of the dream,

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Speaker 5: try something else. If you hold your rod up and

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Speaker 5: the rivers don't part, start walking toward the waters, God

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Speaker 5: has another plan. Be willing to get out of your

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Speaker 5: comfort zone. Keep a freshness in your life. Don't be

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Speaker 5: satisfied to live off of past victories. God has new

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Speaker 5: victories out in front of you.

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Speaker 4: You may have been.

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Speaker 5: Through some disappointments, but it's time to arise and shine.

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Speaker 5: It's time to dream a new dream. It's time to

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Speaker 5: believe again. If you'll put on this new attitude and

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Speaker 5: stay open to new opportunities, then when the bowl we

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Speaker 5: will show up.

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Speaker 4: God will lead you to the peanuts.

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Speaker 5: When your application gets turned down, God will give you

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Speaker 5: a better job. Or like my father, when it looks

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Speaker 5: like your darkest hour, God will turn it around, restore you,

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Speaker 5: and bring you out to your brightest hour.

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