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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. He God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, and you

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Speaker 1: can come visit us in person. We'd love to have

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Speaker 1: you be a part of one of our services. But

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this group of school children. They were in the

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Speaker 1: cafeteria line at their Catholic elementary school and at the

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Speaker 1: start of the line there was a big bowl of apples.

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Speaker 1: A nun had written a note. It said, take only one.

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Speaker 1: God is watching. At the end of the line there

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Speaker 1: was a big bowl of chocolate chip cookies. One of

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Speaker 1: the children had written a note. It said take all

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Speaker 1: you want. God is watching. The apples. Say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 1: it says, I am, I have what it says I have,

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do today.

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Speaker 1: I will be talked the word of God. I boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 1: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about thanking God

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Speaker 1: before you see the promise. We all have things we're

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Speaker 1: believing for to accomplish a dream, to beat the right person,

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Speaker 1: for our health to turn around. And we prayed, we believed,

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Speaker 1: we stood in faith, but it hasn't happened yet. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: we're so determined that we want it so badly we

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Speaker 1: keep asking and asking God, You've got had turned this around. God,

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Speaker 1: please heal my child. God, I'm begging you give me

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Speaker 1: this good break. But here's the key. Once you pray,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to ask anymore. From then on, you

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Speaker 1: need to thank God that is on the way, instead

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Speaker 1: of God, I'm dealing with this sickness. Please heal me. No,

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Speaker 1: you've already prayed. Now it's Lord. I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you that I'm healing instead of begging God, please get

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Speaker 1: my child back on course. God, Please don't let him

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Speaker 1: get in trouble. Try a different approach. Lord. I thank

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Speaker 1: you that my children will fulfill their destiny. Thank you

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Speaker 1: that As for me and my house, we will serve

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Speaker 1: the Lord. It's a different mindset. When we keep asking

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Speaker 1: again and again, pleading with God. It's like we're trying

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Speaker 1: to talk him into it. Maybe he doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: do it, maybe we're not good enough, maybe we don't

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Speaker 1: deserve it. But when you switch over into thanking him,

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Speaker 1: you're saying, God, I trust you. I know you're faithful

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Speaker 1: to your word, that what you promise and purpose for

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Speaker 1: my life will come to pass. Jesus said in Mark eleven,

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Speaker 1: when you pray, believe that you receive when you pray,

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Speaker 1: not when it shows up, but when you pray, believe

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Speaker 1: that it happened. Believe that God is so faithful that

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Speaker 1: he set the miracle into that in the unseen, realm

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Speaker 1: angels are dispatched with your healing, your breakthrough, your freedom. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you receive when you believe, if you already have

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Speaker 1: it by faith, then you don't have to keep asking

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Speaker 1: for it. You have to switch over from asking to

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Speaker 1: thanking God. There was a lady in the scripture that

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Speaker 1: heal her daughter. She said please Jesus, she's so bad.

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Speaker 1: pray for her, but Jesus ignored her, didn't give her

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Speaker 1: the time of day. Normally, Jesus was so compassionate. When

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Speaker 1: went over and healed him. When a government official stopped,

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, my little girl is so sick. Will you

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Speaker 1: come to my house and pray for her. Jesus spoke

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Speaker 1: about this woman kept begging and begging, trying to get

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Speaker 1: Jesus to change his mind. When she realized that wasn't working,

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Speaker 1: the scripture says, she fell down at Jesus' feet and

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Speaker 1: began worshiping him, thanking him, praising him. That's when Jesus

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Speaker 1: changed his mind and healed her daughter. What begging couldn't do,

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Speaker 1: thanking God will do. Don't be a beggar, be a believer.

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Speaker 1: When you pray, believe that it's done, and start thanking

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Speaker 1: God that is on the way. Believe that God hurt you,

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Speaker 1: and believe that you deserve it, that you're worthy, that

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Speaker 1: God year after year. God, please help me to make

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Speaker 1: good decisions. Now. The right approach is Father, thank you

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Speaker 1: that I have the mind of Christ. Thank you that

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Speaker 1: my life. That's praying in faith. The scripture says, come

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Speaker 1: boldly to the throne of grace. You won't go boldly

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Speaker 1: thinking mode. Paul said it this way in Philippians. Bring

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Speaker 1: your request to God with thanksgiving. It's not enough to

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Speaker 1: just ask. You have to add this second part, thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: That's your faith being released instead of God, please help me.

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Speaker 1: I don't see how I'm gonna make it financially. God,

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Speaker 1: I'm begging you. That's a sincere prayer, but it's not

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Speaker 1: an effective prayer. A better approach is find what God

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Speaker 1: says about you in the scripture. Find some promises and

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Speaker 1: thank God for them. Father, I thank you that I

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Speaker 1: will lend and not borrow. Lord, thank you that I

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Speaker 1: live under the open windows of heaven, that whatever I

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Speaker 1: withhold because I walk up right now. I take time

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Speaker 1: every morning to start the day off in faith, prayed,

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Speaker 1: read my Bible. But ninety percent of my prayer time

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Speaker 1: is thanking God for what he's done and thanking him

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Speaker 1: for what he's promised. I don't get up every morning

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Speaker 1: and say, God, please bless me, Please anoint me. God,

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Speaker 1: Please keep my children from harm. God, please help us, God,

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Speaker 1: let me leave my mark, give me your favor. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've already asked God for those things. When I prayed,

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Speaker 1: I received it by faith. I believe that God heard me.

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Speaker 1: I believe that he's trustworthy, that he's working behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: So I don't keep asking again and again, week after week,

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Speaker 1: year after year. I switched over into thanking God, Father,

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Speaker 1: Thank you that I'm blessed. Thank you that You've crowned

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Speaker 1: me with favor. Thank you that I'm anointed. Thank you

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Speaker 1: that your angels watch after us. Lord, Thank you that

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Speaker 1: Lakequoiod is strong, that from generation to generation we will

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Speaker 1: tell of your goodness. That kind of praying gets God's attention.

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Speaker 1: Thanking him is your faith at work. When he hears

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Speaker 1: praise is coming up, blessings will come down. That's when

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Speaker 1: he'll dispatch angels and sent miracles into motion. But begging

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Speaker 1: God won't do this, pleading again and again for the

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Speaker 1: same thing. No, turn it around. God heard you the

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Speaker 1: first time you ask. Don't pray like he didn't. If

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Speaker 1: nothing happened. With the right attitude, His Lord, I thank

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Speaker 1: you that my healing is on the way. Thank you

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Speaker 1: that the right person is in route. Thank you that

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Speaker 1: it will be a bountiful year. When you're tempted to worry,

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Speaker 1: thoughts come saying this never going to work out. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to go back and pray again. Oh God,

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Speaker 1: please let it happen. And no, Father, thank you that

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Speaker 1: it's on the way. That's what keeps you encouraged. When

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Speaker 1: you hear yourself thanking God for what he promised, declaring

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Speaker 1: his goodness and speaking victory into your future. That's what

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Speaker 1: builds your faith. That's how you're going to stay strong

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Speaker 1: pass God told Abraham and Sarah that they were going

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Speaker 1: Sarah had already gone through the change of life. She

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Speaker 1: had been barren, never able to conceive. Now Abraham was

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Speaker 1: eighty years old, she was seventy. Seemed impossible. Year after

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Speaker 1: year went by and they didn't see any sign of

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Speaker 1: a child. Every day that passed, it was less likely

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Speaker 1: came to Abraham. You're not going to have a baby

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Speaker 1: that defies the laws of nature. God didn't tell you

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Speaker 1: have gotten discouraged. God, I'm asking you again, please give

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Speaker 1: us this child. We want this baby so badly. Please

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Speaker 1: do what you said. The scripture says Abraham grew strong

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Speaker 1: in faith by giving praise to God. I can see

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Speaker 1: want to thank you for what you promised, that my

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Speaker 1: the way. That's how he stayed strong and kept believing,

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Speaker 1: constantly thanking God for what he promised. You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: stay strong by begging, by asking again and again, by worrying, complaining, God,

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Speaker 1: where are you? God? Why isn't this working out? You're

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Speaker 1: gonna grow strong by thanking God that is on the way.

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Speaker 1: Like Abraham, you may not see any sign of what

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Speaker 1: God promised you. You could live worried, stressed, doubting, tried

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Speaker 1: differ an approach every time. Those thoughts tell you that

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Speaker 1: your family restored. It's been too long. Come on, it

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Speaker 1: would have happened by now. Turn that worry into worship. Father,

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Speaker 1: will finish. Thank you that your plans for me are

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Speaker 1: my former days. Lord, Thank you that you've already taken

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Speaker 1: care of what I'm concerned about. That the moment I prayed,

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Speaker 1: But God works where there's faith. When he hears you

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Speaker 1: gets God's attention. That's when he'll make things happen that

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Speaker 1: you couldn't make happen. When our son Jonathan was sixteen

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Speaker 1: years old, he got his driver's license and we went

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Speaker 1: He was so excited. Our daughter, Alexandra, is three years

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Speaker 1: younger than him. She was thirteen when we got home

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Speaker 1: and she saw that car. She came straight over to

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Speaker 1: me and said, Dad, when I turned sixteen, are you

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Speaker 1: She said, you promised. I said, I promise. Do you know?

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Speaker 1: For the next three years, she never asked me for

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Speaker 1: do it. All she did for those three years was

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Speaker 1: thank me for the car that was on the way. Daddy,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. Thank you so much for getting me

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Speaker 1: that car. What kind are we going to get? What caller? Model?

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Speaker 1: What size? That made me feel good as a father

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Speaker 1: to know that she trusted me, that she believes me

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Speaker 1: so much that she'll thank me even though she doesn't

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