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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy a message.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord, we blessed you in this place.

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Speaker 3: Say men, you know I'm reminded today that God always

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Speaker 3: starts small. God takes the small and goes big. You know,

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Speaker 3: God's got a way of doing things with seeds that multiply,

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Speaker 3: And today I just want to remind every one of us.

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Speaker 3: You may feel small, you may feel like you don't

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Speaker 3: have enough. Are there maybe some small things in your

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Speaker 3: life you don't know if you really can handle.

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Speaker 2: But I want to tell you something.

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Speaker 3: When you put those small things in the hands of Jesus,

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Speaker 3: you know what, he can go from small to big,

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Speaker 3: and go from small to big.

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Speaker 2: You see.

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Speaker 3: God told the Israelites when they were going to possess

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Speaker 3: the land in Deuteronomy. He says, I'm going to decrease

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Speaker 3: your enemies so that you can increase.

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Speaker 2: He said it like this.

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Speaker 3: He says, little by little, I am going to decrease

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Speaker 3: the enemies in the land, so that you can increase

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Speaker 3: and take possession of the entire.

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Speaker 2: Promise in this land. You see, God started small and

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Speaker 2: wanted them to go big.

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Speaker 3: See, he wanted them to have the capacity to be

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Speaker 3: able to handle what he was going to give them.

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Speaker 3: He didn't want the land to overtake them. He wanted

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Speaker 3: them to overtake the land.

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Speaker 2: But he had to.

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Speaker 3: Decrease the enemies small slowly so that.

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Speaker 2: They could increase.

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Speaker 3: So that means that God was increasing them incrementally throughout

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Speaker 3: their journey. And do you know That's what God wants

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Speaker 3: to do for you today. He wants to increase you.

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Speaker 3: What you think is small and insignificant.

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Speaker 2: God wants to go big with it. But you got

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Speaker 2: to learn to handle the small first.

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Speaker 3: Many of you know the story in Matthew for and

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Speaker 3: the Gospels when Jesus was preaching and teaching to the multitudes.

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Speaker 2: They'd been with him all day long.

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Speaker 3: He had healed the sick among them, and he was

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Speaker 3: just loving on them all day long. And the disciples

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Speaker 3: came to Jesus and they said, Jesus, the people haven't

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Speaker 3: eaten all day and it's starting to become evening, and

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Speaker 3: they need to leave, and they need to go find food.

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Speaker 3: Would you release them, Jesus, so that they can go

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Speaker 3: to the villages and find the food. We don't have

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Speaker 3: enough food to feed them, and Jesus said, it's not

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Speaker 3: necessary for me to release the people. You feed them.

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Speaker 3: They said, we don't have enough to feed them. We

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Speaker 3: only have five loaves and two fish. It is not

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Speaker 3: enough to feed the multitude. It's too small. I love

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Speaker 3: the way Jesus said, you feed them. Now, he'd been

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Speaker 3: doing miracles all day. It wasn't going to be difficult

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Speaker 3: for Jesus to just multiply the food.

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Speaker 2: The disciples hadn't done any miracles. But yet he looked

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Speaker 2: at them and said, you feed them.

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Speaker 3: You see what they thought was small, what they thought

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Speaker 3: they couldn't handle. See, they couldn't handle feeding this many people.

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Speaker 3: Was such a small thing. He said, bring it to me,

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Speaker 3: and you know the story. They brought it to Jesus.

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Speaker 3: He broke it, he blessed it, and he gave it

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Speaker 3: back to them so that they could feed the multitudes.

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Speaker 3: You see, Jesus took that small and let them go big.

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Speaker 3: He let them be a blessing that day. He let

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Speaker 3: what they had in their hands feed the multitude. I

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Speaker 3: want you to know that God thinks the small is

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Speaker 3: very important. Oftentimes we overlook the small because we want

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Speaker 3: to go big. Oftentimes we don't think we have to

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Speaker 3: deal with the small because it's not going to make

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Speaker 3: that much difference anyway. But I believe Jesus was telling

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Speaker 3: us in this story, the small things matter. Don't overlook

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Speaker 3: the small things. You see, too often we think that

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Speaker 3: the complaining doesn't really make a difference. We think because

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Speaker 3: we're not treating our spouse right, it doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 2: It's not what we're wanting to do anyway.

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Speaker 3: The lack of integrity, maybe leaving the office early, sneaking out.

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Speaker 2: See, those are.

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Speaker 3: Small things that matter to God. They're small things. He's saying,

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Speaker 3: how you handling the small things? Observe the small things. Then,

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Speaker 3: too often we say we don't have enough. They don't

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Speaker 3: match the dream, they don't match my desires. I don't

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Speaker 3: have the right education, I don't have the proper finances,

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Speaker 2: I didn't come from the right family. I can't do

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Speaker 2: what I would like to do. That's small stuff, too. See,

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Speaker 2: all of this stuff is small. But God likes to

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Speaker 2: take the small and he likes to go big. But

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Speaker 2: we've got to put the importance on the small. You know,

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Speaker 2: I believe that's what God gives us babies, because they're.

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Speaker 3: Small, then they go big. Can you imagine Him giving

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Speaker 3: us this grown baby. We wouldn't know what to do

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Speaker 3: with it. Got a holy starts with the seed. He

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Speaker 3: wants us to go big, but we gotta handle the

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Speaker 3: small stuff. Like the disciples, they had it in their hand,

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Speaker 3: they didn't know how to handle it until Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Gave them the secret. Bring it to me.

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Speaker 3: Listen, you got some problems in your life, You got

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Speaker 3: some unforgiveness in your life. See, those small things can

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Speaker 3: go big if you don't bring them to Jesus. The bitterness,

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Speaker 3: the root, the envy, jealousy, those things can all go

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Speaker 3: big if you don't bring them to Jesus. You want

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Speaker 3: him to multiply, You want him to give you promotion.

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Speaker 3: You got to work the small things. You gotta not

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Speaker 3: overlook the small things. You know, we're sitting in this

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Speaker 3: auditorium today and it's amazing, it's beautiful. We get to

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Speaker 3: gather together, we get to sing, we get to worship

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Speaker 3: God in such.

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Speaker 2: A magnificent place.

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Speaker 3: But you know when what I remember about this building

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Speaker 3: over thirty two years ago, sitting up there by the

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Speaker 3: flag watching the Rockets play basketball. It was my very

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Speaker 3: first state with my husband Joel. You see, it looks

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Speaker 3: one way to you, but Gosh looks another way to me.

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Speaker 3: You see, it started with a seed, But can I

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Speaker 3: tell you there was a lot of small.

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Speaker 2: Stuff along the way.

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Speaker 3: And can I tell you this, We'll never ever get

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Speaker 3: rid of the small stuff. It doesn't matter how big

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Speaker 3: you go. There's always the small stuff you have to

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Speaker 3: bring to Jesus.

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Speaker 2: There's always the small stuff.

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Speaker 3: When we learn how to handle the small stuff, God

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Speaker 3: will give us more stuff to handle.

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Speaker 2: He'll enlarge our capacity.

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Speaker 3: You see, thirty two years ago, Joel and I could

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Speaker 3: never handle what's going on in our life today. It

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Speaker 3: would have overtaken us. Instead of us possessing it, it

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Speaker 3: would have possessed us. We did not have capacity. We

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Speaker 3: were not in that place.

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Speaker 2: That we could deal with it. And see that is

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Speaker 2: what God is saying to you.

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Speaker 3: He is saying, I want you to possess, but I

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Speaker 3: want you to start with the small stuff. We went

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Speaker 3: to the funeral service of the great evangelist Billy Graham

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Speaker 3: Friday and celebrated ninety nine years of a man who

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Speaker 3: touched millions. We celebrate this iconic legend. We see his

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Speaker 3: big life, but we don't see the small stuff he

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Speaker 3: dealt with every single day, the choices, the adjustments, the

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Speaker 3: things that he did when no one was looking, the

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Speaker 3: things that he did when he didn't know if it

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Speaker 3: would even make a difference.

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Speaker 2: You see, we see the big, we fail to see

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Speaker 2: the small.

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Speaker 3: I have a beautiful oak tree in my front yard

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Speaker 3: and it spans forever with the limbs. And as I

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Speaker 3: look at that tree, it's very difficult for me to

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Speaker 3: believe that it started from an acorn.

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Speaker 2: You see, it's big.

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Speaker 3: All I see is the big, But that tree had

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Speaker 3: to start small. God takes the small and he goes big.

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Speaker 3: Can I tell you if you will learn to handle

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Speaker 3: the small things?

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Speaker 2: The secret is bring them all to Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Let him break them, let him bless them, and He'll

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Speaker 3: go big in your life. Amen.

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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