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Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you

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Speaker 5: again for coming out today. And I like to start

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Speaker 5: with something funny and I heard about this little girl.

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Speaker 5: She was sitting in her grandfather's lap. She noticed how

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Speaker 5: wrinkled his face was. As she contemplated the difference between

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Speaker 5: He kind of laughed and said, sure he did. He

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Speaker 5: did God make me? He said, yes, he made you

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Speaker 5: just a little while ago. She thought about it a moment, said, granddaddy,

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Speaker 5: God's getting better, isn't he.

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Speaker 4: Hold up your Bible, say it with me like you

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Speaker 4: mean it.

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Speaker 5: 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: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about so in a sea,

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Speaker 5: in your time of need.

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Speaker 5: Easy to become ingrown to where all we think about

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Speaker 5: is my problem, my illness, my hurt, my bills, my loneliness.

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Speaker 5: As long as we're only focused on ourselves, we will

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Speaker 4: We have to learn to sow a seed.

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Speaker 5: The way to get what you want is by giving

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Speaker 5: away what you need. If you need happiness, don't sit

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Speaker 5: God will use that seed to bring you happiness. If

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Speaker 4: You have to give away what you need. Now. This

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Speaker 5: For many years he struggled with his teenage son was

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Speaker 5: He tutored him, mentored him, became a father figure in

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Speaker 5: enable you to help others like this father. He'll let

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Speaker 5: If you'll sow a seed and help others, that's what's

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Speaker 5: going to bring your own harvest. See, we pray for

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Speaker 5: This father prayed that God would restore his relationship with

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Speaker 4: And bring them to church. Now what God's asking you

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Speaker 5: The people he has in your life, they hold the

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Speaker 4: God will bring your own harvest.

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Speaker 5: When Victoria was in her early twenties and still single,

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Speaker 5: she prayed that God would bring the right person into

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Speaker 5: is not what he looks like, not how much he has,

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Speaker 4: She prayed for a godly man.

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Speaker 5: What's interesting is God didn't send her this incredible peace

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Speaker 4: What are you laughing at now?

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Speaker 5: Instead of meeting me, she met this older woman at

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Speaker 5: down deep, Victoria knew she was supposed to reach out

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Speaker 4: During the week, Victoria would swing.

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Speaker 5: All she wanted was a man that loved the Lord,

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Speaker 5: I'm only kidding, but I really believe I am kidding.

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Speaker 4: Yes, she took care of her.

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Speaker 4: When you reach out and give of your time, your.

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Speaker 4: It's taken root.

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Speaker 5: The Psalm thirty seven says trust in the Lord and

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Speaker 4: Here's the key. It's not enough to just trust in

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Speaker 4: the Lord. It's not enough to just pray. Just believe.

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Speaker 5: That's important, but you've got to move on to step two.

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Speaker 4: Be good to somebody.

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Speaker 5: If you're lonely, don't just pray, God, please send somebody

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Speaker 5: the seed God will use to bring a harvest back

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Speaker 5: not enough to just pray, God, please.

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Speaker 4: Give me another job. I'm counting on your favor. That's important.

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Speaker 4: But move on to step two.

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Speaker 5: While you're waiting for something to open up, go help

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Speaker 5: that friend get ahead in their business. Volunteer in the community. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 5: I'm believing to get a promotion. That's great, But here's

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Speaker 5: you teaching them what you know? As you help others,

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Speaker 5: God will help you and some of you would see

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Speaker 5: If you just take time to be good to somebody,

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Speaker 5: it's easy to think, well, Joel, I've been through a disappointment.

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Speaker 4: Now, you've got to sew a seed in your time

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Speaker 4: She would drive across town and pray for other people

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Speaker 4: He told me, Joel, I know it all.

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Speaker 5: We had been working on it for over three years.

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Speaker 5: depressed in self pity. But instead she's being good to

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Speaker 5: somebody else. Her sister in law made a different decision.

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Speaker 5: She went her own way and did her own thing.

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Speaker 5: Nothing wrong with that, but it's interesting in the scripture

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Speaker 5: you never hear anything more about her.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Maybe she gave into self pity. Maybe she became ingrown

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Speaker 5: bitter and missed her new beginning. But Ruth, month after month,

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Speaker 5: she kept taking care of her mother in law, Naomi,

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Speaker 5: being her friend, cooking her meals, making sure she stayed

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Speaker 5: cheered up.

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Speaker 4: Notice Ruth wasn't just praying God, I need a new beginning.

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Speaker 4: She moved on to step two. She was being good

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Speaker 4: to somebody.

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Speaker 5: One day, Ruth met the owner of that field, a

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Speaker 5: very wealthy man named Boaz. They ended up falling in

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Speaker 5: love and getting married. Ruth lived a long, blessed, prosperous life.

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Speaker 5: But think about this. If Ruth would have taken the

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Speaker 5: easy way out and just gone on back to her

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Speaker 5: own home, did her own thing, she would have never

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Speaker 5: met Boaz. The seed to Ruth's new beginning came through

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Speaker 5: helping Naomi. Many times, the answer to your prayer will

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Speaker 5: come through helping somebody else. It may be difficult, life

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Speaker 5: is not always fair. When you go through a disappointment,

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Speaker 5: instead of feeling sorry for yourself waiting for everybody to

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Speaker 5: cheer you up, you got to dig your heels in

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Speaker 5: and say, no, God didn't bring me this far to

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Speaker 5: leave me. I'm not gonna live my life to press

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna.

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Speaker 4: Go out and be good to somebody else.

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Speaker 5: Isaiah fifty eight says when you feed the hungry, when

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Speaker 5: you clothe the poor, when you help the hurting, then

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Speaker 5: your light will break forth like the dawn, and your

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Speaker 5: healing will quickly come. God is saying when you meet

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Speaker 5: other people's needs, I.

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Speaker 4: Will always meet your own needs.

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Speaker 5: One of my baseball coaches growing up was a man

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Speaker 5: named Daniel, a fine gentleman that's been with our church

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Speaker 5: for a long long time. Back in the late eighties,

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Speaker 5: Daniel lost his wife of.

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Speaker 4: Many years to an illness. He was so.

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Speaker 5: Devastated in the natural he didn't know how he'd go

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Speaker 5: on the love of his life, of his four beautiful children,

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Speaker 5: was no longer here. Daniel could have gotten depressed, giving

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Speaker 5: up on his dreams and just faded away, but Daniel

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Speaker 5: didn't do that. In his time of need, instead of

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Speaker 5: just staying focused on his own hurt, he decided to

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Speaker 5: go out and help other people that were hurting. He'd

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Speaker 5: been retired from the phone company and didn't really know

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Speaker 5: how he could help. He said, the only thing I

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Speaker 5: really felt like I could do was comfort other people.

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Speaker 4: That had been through a loss.

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Speaker 5: So he started showing up at the funerals where my

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Speaker 5: father was doing the service. He wasn't invited, he didn't

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Speaker 5: know anybody in the family.

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Speaker 4: He would just show up and be a friend to

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Speaker 4: those that were hurting. He told them, I know what

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Speaker 4: you're going through. I've been there. I made it, you

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Speaker 4: can too.

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Speaker 5: My father noticed him showing up at these funerals, how

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Speaker 5: good he was with the people, kind and caring, and

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Speaker 5: Daddy asked him to be a part of the menam

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Speaker 5: Today Daniel is on staff in charge of all of

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Speaker 5: our funerals and he does an amazing job. A few

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Speaker 5: years ago, God brought another beautiful woman into Daniel's life

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Speaker 5: and today he and Shirley are happily married, and they're

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Speaker 5: a great blessing to many people right here, some great

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Speaker 5: friends of ours, like Daniel. God wants to use what

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Speaker 5: you've been through to help other people get through it.

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Speaker 5: Out of your pain can come your purpose. Don't sit

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Speaker 5: around thinking, Oh, man, who's gonna cheer me up?

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Speaker 4: I had a disappointment. I've had a loss, No so acceded.

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Speaker 5: One of the most powerful things you can do when

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Speaker 5: you're hurting is to go out and be good to

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Speaker 5: somebody else.

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Speaker 4: Your new beginning, your.

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Speaker 5: Next season, is connected to you helping others. Our attitude

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Speaker 5: should be I may have been through a disappointment, but

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Speaker 5: I'm not staying here. I'm gonna go be good to somebody.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to the retirement home and be a friend.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to the hospital and cheer up my neighbor.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna reach out to my coworker that's been struggling.

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Speaker 5: As you refresh others, God will refresh you. Boils down

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Speaker 5: to this. Instead of living need minded, we should live

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Speaker 5: seed minded. In other words, when we have a need,

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Speaker 5: not who can help me? I need encouragement, I need healing.

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Speaker 5: I need finances, No turn it around. I'm in need now.

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Speaker 5: Where is a seed I can sow? Who can I

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Speaker 5: be good to? Who can I bless? Who can I encourage?

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Speaker 5: Who can I cheer up?

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Speaker 4: The way to get what you want is by giving

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Speaker 4: away what you need.

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Speaker 5: Daniel gave away comfort, and God comforted him. Roy gave

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Speaker 5: away encouragement and God encouraged him. Some people are waiting

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Speaker 5: for their ship to come in. The problem is they

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Speaker 5: haven't sent their ship out. You got to sow that

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Speaker 5: seed and it will come back to you. When you

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Speaker 5: give happiness, you'll receive happiness. When you give favor, you'll

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Speaker 5: receive favor. Remember it's not enough to just trust God.

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Speaker 5: That's important. But let's move on to step two and

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Speaker 5: be good to somebody.

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Speaker 4: Friends.

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Speaker 5: If you will learn to sow a seed in your

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Speaker 5: time of need, God promises your light will break forth

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Speaker 5: like the dawn I believe in. Declare your healing will come,

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Speaker 5: your problem will turn around, your relationship will be restored,

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Speaker 5: and your.

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Speaker 4: Dreams will come to pass. In Jesus' name, Do you

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Speaker 4: receive it today?

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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 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord.

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Speaker 5: Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come into my heart.

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Speaker 5: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you

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Speaker 5: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again.

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Speaker 5: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 5: He's going to take your places that you've.

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Speaker 4: Never dreamed of.

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