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Speaker 4: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 4: of our services, but I'd like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 4: And I heard about this pasture. He bought a new horse.

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Speaker 4: He trained it to respond to praise the Lord meaning

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Speaker 4: giddy up, and Hallelujah meaning woe. Every time he said

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Speaker 4: said hallelujah, it would quickly stop. One day he's out riding,

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Speaker 4: the horse got spooked took off running straight toward the cliff,

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Speaker 4: going full blast. In the panic, he couldn't remember what

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Speaker 4: he had taught the horse. He said, Bless God, Glory, Amen.

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Speaker 4: Nothing happened. At the last moment, he shouted Hallelujah, and

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Speaker 4: the horse came to a screeching halt just inches before

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Speaker 4: relief and said, Praise the Lord, saying 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 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 4: is alert, heart he's receptive. I will never be the

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Speaker 4: same in Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to

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Speaker 4: talk to you today about unquestionably free. When we've struggled

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Speaker 4: We did everything we could, we prayed, we stood in faith,

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Speaker 4: deal with this depression, this anxiety, this trouble at were

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Speaker 4: we're functioning. We're making it, but it's restricting our joy

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Speaker 4: and limiting our growth. Men told me recently how he's

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Speaker 4: tried to forgive the people that hurt him. He has

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Speaker 4: hindering you, that are keeping you from your potential, they

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Speaker 4: What you couldn't do on your own, God is going

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Speaker 4: nothing hindering your potential, nothing limiting your elation. Ships. Yes,

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Speaker 4: favor you. This is what happened to the Israelites. They

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Speaker 4: You can imagine their mindset. We're just slaves, We're just poor,

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Speaker 4: their enemies. When God says it's your time to be free,

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Speaker 4: all the forces of darkness cannot stop him. Now you

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Speaker 4: may not see away. The medical report doesn't look good.

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Speaker 4: There's about to be a shift, a shift in your health,

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Speaker 4: You're going to see the hand of God doing what

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Speaker 4: you couldn't do on your own. It's going to be supernatural,

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Speaker 4: supernatural healing, supernatural freedom, supernatural provision, supernatural favor. Man that

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Speaker 4: You've done what you can in the natural, But God

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Speaker 4: is supernatural. One touch of his favor everything will change.

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Speaker 4: unquestionably free. The third year, this man came back to

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Speaker 4: his checkup. Still no cancer. They said, there's no need

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Speaker 4: you're a little better. Parsonally free, Joe, I have no complaints.

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Speaker 4: Oh how about unquestionably free, abundantly free, totally free. That

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Speaker 4: You're about to step in to a new level of freedom, peace, productivity, fulfillment.

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Speaker 4: Things that were slowing you down, draining your joy, taking

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Speaker 4: your creativity, those forces have been broken. Now you have

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Speaker 4: blessing to others. Two thousand and three, we signed a

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Speaker 4: a building like this To Bill New would be five

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Speaker 4: They said they were doing appraisal. Get back with us.

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Speaker 4: They had to appraise the building based on the fact

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Speaker 4: The city came back and said, we'll sell it to you.

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Speaker 4: Not for one hundred million, not fifty million, not twenty million.

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