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Speaker 5: Much for tuning in today. I like to get started

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Speaker 5: with something funny each week. And of course these are

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Speaker 4: It's just to make you laugh. But listen to this one.

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Speaker 5: A cat and a mouse died on the same day

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Speaker 4: Peter asked the mouse, how do you like it so far?

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Speaker 5: The mouse replied, great, but it's so big. Do you

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Speaker 5: think I could get a pair of roller skates? Peter said,

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Speaker 5: no problem and gave him the skates. A few weeks later,

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Speaker 5: Peter saw the cat and asked him how he liked it.

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Speaker 5: The cat replied, it's great. And just when I thought

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Speaker 5: All right, hold up your Bible, say it like you

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Speaker 4: Ready, this is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: You sound great as usual.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about having a

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Speaker 5: Well, Joel, I've always had this sickness, or my marriage

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Speaker 5: But the problem today is many people are weak willed.

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Speaker 5: the reason the nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards

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Speaker 5: Our attitude should be I am determined to live in victory.

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Speaker 4: It is an act of your will.

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Speaker 5: When King David got up in the morning, he didn't always.

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Speaker 5: I don't know exactly what was going on in his family,

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Speaker 5: I will honor God in whatever I do friends, start

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Speaker 5: don't learn to just live with things. When Joel, I've

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Speaker 4: Things are possible.

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Speaker 5: That means if you get over into that attitude of

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Speaker 5: today could be the day that you meet the man

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Speaker 4: That means you are well able to do what you

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Speaker 4: need to do.

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Speaker 5: You are well able to stand strong, you are well

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Speaker 5: able to outlast the enemy, you are well able to

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Speaker 5: resist that temptation. You just got to tap into the

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Speaker 5: power on the inside. And like that, young man, when

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Speaker 5: you come to the end of your own natural ability,

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Speaker 5: you can rest assured Almighty God will show up and

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Speaker 5: give you his supernatural ability. But it is not going

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Speaker 5: to happen if we lose the desire. It's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: If we get passive and just sort of give up.

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Speaker 5: In John chapter five, there's this story about a crippled

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Speaker 5: man that was just like that. He had gotten very complacent.

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Speaker 5: He was lying beside the pool of Bethesda. Every time

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Speaker 5: an angel would come along and trouble the waters, the

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Speaker 5: first one in the pool would be healed. And this

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Speaker 5: man had been lying there for thirty eight years. One

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Speaker 5: day Jesus came along and asked him a very interesting question.

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Speaker 5: He said, sir, do you want to get well? The

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Speaker 5: amplified version says, are you really serious about getting well? Now?

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Speaker 5: I believe Jesus asked him that question to challenge his thinking.

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Speaker 5: After all, it was obvious that he wanted to get well.

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Speaker 5: He had been lying there for thirty eight years. But see,

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Speaker 5: Jesus knew he wasn't in an attitude of faith. He

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Speaker 5: knew he wasn't standing up on the inside. He was

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Speaker 5: just lying there kind of feeling sorry for himself. And

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Speaker 5: by the way he answered back, we can see his attitude.

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Speaker 5: He said, oh, Jesus, I don't have anybody to help me.

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Speaker 5: Every time the angel comes, somebody beats me. I'm always

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Speaker 5: getting left out. He had that poor, pitiful meat attitude.

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Speaker 5: And that's the way many people are today. They've had

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Speaker 5: some disappointments, some unfair things have happened. Now they've got

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Speaker 5: that chip on their shoulder. They're going around feeling sorry

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Speaker 5: for themselves, kind of living negative and depressed. I really

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Speaker 5: love the way Jesus answered him back. He didn't say, ah, brother,

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Speaker 5: I know you've had a tough life, and I feel

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Speaker 5: sorry for you. It's really bad. No, Jesus gave him

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Speaker 5: a command. He was friendly, but he spoke fertilely. He said, sir,

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Speaker 5: get up, pick up your bed, and walk. And I

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Speaker 5: believe when he heard those words, he first had to

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Speaker 5: get up on the inside. All of a sudden, he

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Speaker 5: was filled with hope, with faith, with expectancy, and once

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Speaker 5: he got up on the inside, he was able to

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Speaker 5: get up on the outside. The Bible says he was

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Speaker 5: instantly healed. For some of you today, And I don't

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Speaker 5: mean this disrespectfully, but you've been lying around, maybe not physically,

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Speaker 5: but mentally and emotionally.

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Speaker 4: You're defeated.

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Speaker 5: You don't think you'll ever rise higher and be more successful.

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Speaker 5: You don't see how your family could ever serve God.

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Speaker 5: Or you don't think you'll ever break that addiction. Hell, Joel,

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Speaker 5: I've been this way so long. I don't have anybody

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Speaker 5: to help me. I come from the wrong side of

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Speaker 5: the track. Now you've got to get up on the inside.

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Speaker 5: You will never change your life unless you first change

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Speaker 5: your thinking. You got to get out of that defeated

497
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Speaker 5: mentality and start having that warrior of mentality.

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Speaker 4: Your attitude should be.

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Speaker 5: I may have been sick for a long time, but

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Speaker 5: it's a new day and I know God is restoring

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Speaker 5: health under me. Or maybe I've had this addiction for

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Speaker 5: many years, but I know my day of deliverance has come.

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Speaker 5: Or my child, no, he's not doing right today. But

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Speaker 5: you know what, as for me and my house, we

505
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Speaker 5: will serve the Lord. See, you got to be a warrior.

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Speaker 5: You got to get up on the inside. It doesn't

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Speaker 5: matter how many times you get knocked down.

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Speaker 4: You just keep getting back up again and again and again.

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Speaker 5: God sees your resolve, He sees your determination. And my

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Speaker 5: prayer is that Lakewood is going to be filled with warriors,

511
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Speaker 5: not people that are always under their circumstances, not people

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Speaker 5: that are always down about something. Now, our attitude should

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Speaker 5: be even if the enemy does his best, his best

514
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Speaker 5: will never be enough. He may knock me down, but

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Speaker 5: he can't keep me down. Nothing he can do can

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Speaker 5: keep me from getting up on the inside. Amen, you

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Speaker 5: gotta stay to turningm friends. You can do whatever you

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Speaker 5: really want to do. How strong is your will? Every

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Speaker 5: time I talk about being determined and having a strong will,

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Speaker 5: I think about my grandmother My dad's mother was a

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Speaker 5: very feisty person.

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Speaker 4: Really, she was one of a kind. They were very

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Speaker 4: poor people.

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Speaker 5: They came out of the Great Depression and lost everything

525
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Speaker 5: that they had. And later in life, something very interesting happened.

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Speaker 5: My grandmother there on the farm took up dipping snuff.

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Speaker 5: You didn't realize I come from such a sophisticated background,

528
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Speaker 5: did you. One time somebody asked my father, can you

529
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Speaker 5: cheot he back and go to heaven?

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Speaker 4: He said, sure you can, but you'll have to go

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Speaker 4: to hell to spit.

532
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Speaker 5: But grandmother Oastin took up dipping snuff, and my poor

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Speaker 5: grandfather he just couldn't stand it, and he begged her

534
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Speaker 5: and begged her and begged her to quit doing it.

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Speaker 4: She said, Jack, I've tried and tried. I just can't.

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Speaker 5: I'm hooked on this stuff. This went on month after months,

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Speaker 5: year after year. Finally Grandaddy got desperate.

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Speaker 4: He said, Elie May, I will make a deal with you.

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Speaker 4: And yes that was her name, and no we are

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Speaker 4: not the Beverty Hill Billies.

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Speaker 5: He said, Ellie May, I'll make a deal with you.

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Speaker 5: If you quit dipping that snuff, I'll give you a

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Speaker 5: thousand dollars cash you got to understand back there, especially

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Speaker 5: to them.

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Speaker 4: That's just like saying I'll give you fifty thousand dollars. Men.

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Speaker 5: She wanted that money so bad she could taste it,

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Speaker 5: and she tried and tried and tried and tried, but

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Speaker 5: once again she.

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Speaker 4: Was just not able to stop doing it. Well. Eventually,

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Speaker 4: my grandfather.

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Speaker 5: Died and went to be with the Lord, and grandmother

552
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Speaker 5: didn't like living single. She wanted to find herself another man,

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Speaker 5: and so.

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Speaker 4: One day she met this man twelve years younger than

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Speaker 4: she was.

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Speaker 5: She was so excited. He was good looking, he had

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Speaker 5: a great personality.

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Speaker 4: She was on cloud nine.

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Speaker 5: But she got to thinking, if this man finds out

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Speaker 5: that I dipped snuff, not only will he never marry me,

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Speaker 5: he'll never even ask me out on a day. Once

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Speaker 5: she realized that, do you know how long it took

563
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Speaker 5: her to quit dipping snuff that long?

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Speaker 4: She did it immediately.

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Speaker 5: She didn't have any withdrawals, she didn't have to go

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Speaker 5: to snuff dippers anonymous.

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Speaker 4: She did it in a split second.

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Speaker 5: What she couldn't do in years and years, she did instantaneously.

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Speaker 4: You know why?

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Speaker 5: All because her want to got dig enough. And in

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Speaker 5: the same way, you and I can do anything we

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Speaker 5: want to do. The real question today is how bad

573
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Speaker 5: do you want to do it? Do you really want

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Speaker 5: to get well? You can break that addiction if you

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Speaker 5: want too bad enough. You can forgive that person that

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Speaker 5: hurts you.

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Speaker 4: If you really want to.

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Speaker 5: You can make that marriage work if you have a

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Speaker 5: strong enough desire. So my message to you today is

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Speaker 5: to dig your heels in and shake off that old passive,

581
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Speaker 5: complacent mentality and start doing everything you can to bring

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Speaker 5: your dreams to pass.

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Speaker 4: You got to show the enemy that you're more determined

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Speaker 4: than he is.

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Speaker 5: Remember when we get up in the morning, we got

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Speaker 5: to set the tone for the day.

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Speaker 4: I will be victorious. I will enjoy this day.

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Speaker 5: Friends, don't sit around in self pity, don't sit around

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Speaker 5: focused on your problems. Start pressing forward, get up on

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Speaker 5: the inside. You have everything you need to live a

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Speaker 5: life of victory. If you'll have a strong will and

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Speaker 5: be determined and press past the pain of your feelings.

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Speaker 5: Let me tell you God will reward you. He'll pour

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Speaker 5: out his blessings in favor. He'll open up doors that

595
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 5: look impossible, and you'll experience the life of victory.

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Speaker 4: He has in story. Amen how many of ever receive

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Speaker 4: it today? Can you say amen?

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Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.

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Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say it, Lord Jesus,

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Speaker 5: I'll repent of my sins.

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Speaker 4: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 5: Friends, if you pray that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 5: Keep God first place. He's going to take your places

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