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Speaker 5: you again for coming out. I like to start with

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Speaker 5: something funny. And I heard about this positive farmer and

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Speaker 5: negative farmer. When it would rain, the positive farmer will say, Lord,

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Speaker 5: thank you for water and our crops. The negative farmer say, yeah,

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Speaker 5: but if it keeps this up, it's going to rock

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Speaker 5: the roots. When the sun would come out, positive farmer, Lord,

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Speaker 5: thank you for giving our plants valuable nutrients. Negative farmers, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: but if it keeps.

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Speaker 4: This up, it's going to scorch the crops.

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Speaker 5: One day they were in a boat bird hunting together

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Speaker 5: and the positive farmer just got a brand new bird dog,

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Speaker 5: and he was so proud of him. He shot a bird.

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Speaker 5: It fell in the water. Said to the negative farmer,

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Speaker 5: watch this. The dog jumped out of the boat, ran

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Speaker 5: on top of the water, picked up the bird, ran

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Speaker 5: back on top of the water, put it in the boat.

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Speaker 5: Said what do you think about that? Negative farmer said,

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Speaker 5: I should have known it. That dog can't even swim.

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Speaker 4: Hold up your bible, say it 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.

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Speaker 5: I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today,

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Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly

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Speaker 5: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 5: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about it's too small.

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Speaker 5: We all have dreams and goals, and we do our

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Speaker 5: best to stretch our faith and believe that one day,

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Speaker 5: if we work hard enough and get the right breaks,

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Speaker 5: In our mind, that would be big, a great accomplishment.

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Speaker 4: But what's big to us is not big to God.

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Speaker 5: He created universes, He spoke worlds into existence. In God's

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Speaker 5: dream for your life is so much bigger than your own.

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Speaker 5: We think, if I could just pay my house off,

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Speaker 5: that would be a dream come true. God says that's

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Speaker 5: too small. I want to bless you so you not

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Speaker 5: could just get that promotion at work, be able to

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Speaker 4: God says, that's too small. I want you to run

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Speaker 5: If I could just get back on my feet again,

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Speaker 4: God says, that's too small.

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Speaker 5: You're not only going to get back on your feet,

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Speaker 5: You're going to run again.

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Speaker 4: You're going to feel better than you've ever felt.

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Speaker 5: See, we think ordinary, God thinks extraordinary. Whatever you're dreaming about,

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Speaker 5: whatever you're believing for, God is saying it's too small.

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Speaker 5: He's going to supersize it. He's an overflow God. Ef

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Speaker 5: Esian says, God can do exceedingly abundantly, above and beyond

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Speaker 5: The limits off of God. You may not see away,

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Speaker 5: but God has a way. One touch of God's favor

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Speaker 5: can take you further than you could go on your

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Speaker 5: live a little life with little dreams, little goals, little passion,

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Speaker 5: little influence, little house. God thinks big, He thinks abundance,

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Speaker 4: He told the Israelites, I am bringing you into a.

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Speaker 5: Wide land, a spacious land, flowing with milk and honey.

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Speaker 5: God has something bigger, something better, something more rewarding in

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Speaker 4: Don't get comfortable where you are.

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Speaker 5: It's easy, they well Joel, God's blessed me. I'm happy,

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Speaker 5: Learn to be happy where you are, but don't settle

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Speaker 5: where you are. God never performs his greatest victories in

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Speaker 4: They're always in the future.

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Speaker 5: What God has done, the promotion, the good breaks the

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Speaker 4: That was a small thing.

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Speaker 5: You haven't touched the surface of what God has in store.

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Speaker 5: He's going to open doors you never dreamed would open.

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Speaker 5: He's going to bring talent out of you that you

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Speaker 5: didn't know you had. You're going to see explosive blessings,

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Speaker 5: blessings that thrust you to a new level. What you

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Speaker 5: think is big right now that house. God blessed you

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Speaker 5: with the scholarship, the promotion, the contract. One day you'll

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Speaker 5: look back and realize that was a small thing. In

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Speaker 5: the scripture, Joseph was falsely accused and put in prison.

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Speaker 5: I can imagine him praying the year after year, God,

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Speaker 5: I didn't do anything wrong. That was his dream to

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Speaker 5: I'm not only going to bring you out to prison.

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Speaker 5: In a few years, when Joseph was in charge over

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Speaker 5: all of Egypt. I'm sure there were nights he went

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Speaker 5: just praying to get out of prison. But God, you

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Speaker 5: supersized what I was dreaming about. He realized he was

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Speaker 5: thinking way too small, Like Joseph, matter what you're praying about,

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Speaker 5: whatever you're believing for, it may be big in your mind,

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Speaker 5: but in God's mind, it's a small thing. God, just

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Speaker 5: help me to pay my bills, help me to make

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Speaker 4: God says that's too small.

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Speaker 5: He wants to bring you into overflow. He wants you

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Speaker 5: to lend and not borrow. God, I'm so lonely. Just

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Speaker 5: bring somebody into my life. I don't care at this point. God,

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Speaker 5: I'll take anybody. No, you may have settled, but God

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Speaker 5: didn't settle. He's going to bring somebody into your life

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Speaker 5: greater than you imagine, that honors him. Somebody that loves you,

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Speaker 5: that's fun, that's talented, it's well off, that's good looking.

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Speaker 4: Throw that in there.

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Speaker 4: You gotta stir your faith up. The only way.

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Speaker 5: seed take root. It's easy to think, Wow, this isn't

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Speaker 5: for me today, Joe. You don't know my situation. I've

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Speaker 5: been through a lot of disappointments. My dreams look impossible. No,

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Speaker 5: don't talk yourself out of it. You don't have to

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Speaker 4: All you have to do is believe. Just say yes, God,

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Speaker 5: I believe your plans for me are bigger than I

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Speaker 5: So I'm taking the limits off of you. When the

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Speaker 5: Israelites were in slavery, they were forced to make bricks

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Speaker 5: No doubt, they prayed, God, please give us straw. God,

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Speaker 5: I don't want to make you a better slave. I

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Speaker 5: want to bring you totally out of that bondage. I

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Speaker 5: created you as the head and not the tail, the

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Speaker 5: we're praying to become a better slave. God, just help

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Speaker 5: help me to learn to live with my depression. No,

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Speaker 5: it's not your depression.

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Speaker 4: Quit praying to become a better slave. That's too small

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Speaker 5: God wants you to reign in life. You have seeds

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Speaker 5: your mark on this generation.

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Speaker 4: You have to enlarge your vision.

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Speaker 5: What God has planned for you is not little to

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Speaker 5: get by, to endure, to take the leftovers, to be

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Speaker 5: second class. God has a big life for you. He's

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Speaker 5: something that you've never seen. He's not going to just

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Speaker 5: make you a better slave. He's going to set you

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Speaker 5: totally free, free from addictions, free from sickness, free from depression,

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Speaker 4: No matter what level you're at, no matter where you are,

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Speaker 4: received this into your spirit. It's too small.

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Speaker 5: more connections, more resources. He's going to release a favor

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Speaker 5: that stirring in your spirit, is God's speaking to your destiny.

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Speaker 4: That's your spirit bearing.

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Speaker 5: Witness with the greatness God's placed in you. Isaiah forty nine.

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Speaker 5: God was telling Isaiah about his future and all he

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Speaker 5: happen for me. I don't have the connections. You may not,

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Speaker 5: but God does You have friends in high places? Well,

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Speaker 5: I come from the wrong family. We never get any

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Speaker 5: good breaks. No, you come from the right family. You're

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Speaker 5: a child of the most high God. Eavenly Father owns

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Speaker 5: it all. He makes streets out of gold. Start taking

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Speaker 5: steps of faith. Do what you can and God will

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Speaker 5: do what you can't. Do the natural and God will

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Speaker 5: do the supernatural. He'll bring the right people, He'll give

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Speaker 5: you the right breaks. He'll cause things to fall into place.

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Speaker 5: There's a young lady in the scripture named Ruth. Her

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Speaker 5: husband was killed in a battle. She and her mother

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Speaker 5: in law, Naomi, moved to another city. Every morning, Ruth

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Speaker 5: would go out into the fields and pick up the

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Speaker 5: leftover wheat that the workers had missed. That's how they survived.

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Speaker 5: They were sustained that way. It was fine for a season,

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Speaker 5: but God had something better. The owner of that field,

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Speaker 5: a man named Boaz, noticed Ruth.

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Speaker 4: He liked her.

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Speaker 5: He told his workers to leave handfuls of wheat on

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Speaker 5: purpose for Ruth. Now, when she went out in the morning,

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Speaker 5: she didn't have to work nearly as hard. The wheat

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Speaker 5: was right there in her path. And she could have

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Speaker 5: lived that way the rest of her life. But this

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Speaker 5: shows us the heart of God. God said, Ruth, that's

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Speaker 5: too small a thing for you. I've got something bigger

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Speaker 5: in store. One day, Boaz, that owner, introduced himself to Ruth.

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Speaker 5: Long story short, they fell in love and got married.

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Speaker 5: From that point on, Ruth never had to go pick

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Speaker 5: up the leftovers again. She came into an explosive blessing.

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Speaker 5: She went from working in the field to owning the field.

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Speaker 5: That's God's dream for you, to bring you into overflow,

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Speaker 5: to where you have more than enough.

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Speaker 4: And here's the key. Ruth was content picking up the leftover.

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Speaker 4: She didn't complain.

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Speaker 5: She was faithful where she was, but she didn't settle

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Speaker 5: where she was.

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Speaker 4: Deep down, she knew.

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Speaker 5: God had something bigger. That's sustained she and Naomi for

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Speaker 5: a season. But God doesn't want you to live off

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Speaker 5: the left, dovers. He didn't create you to constantly struggle.

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Speaker 5: He created you to live an abundant life. You have

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Speaker 5: royalty in your veins. You may be there for a season,

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Speaker 5: but don't let it become permanent in your thinking.

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Speaker 4: That's too small for you.

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Speaker 5: You have greatness on the inside.

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Speaker 4: You have the favor of God.

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Speaker 5: The forces that are for you are greater than the

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Speaker 5: forces that are against you. Now, do like Ruth, do

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Speaker 5: like doctor Price, Keep helping others, keep being your best.

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Speaker 4: You're not only going to come into.

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Speaker 5: Your hands fools on purpose, but you're going to see

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Speaker 5: these explosive blessings where you go from working at a

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Speaker 5: company to own in your company, from teaching at the

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Speaker 5: school to run in the school, from supporting one child

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Speaker 5: to helping millions of children. Have a big vision. Make

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Speaker 5: room for God to do something new. One thing I've

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Speaker 5: learned is you cannot outdream God. God thinks big, He

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Speaker 5: thinks overflow, he thinks more than enough. Whatever you're dreaming about,

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Speaker 5: you need to get ready. God's gonna supercize it. Deuteronomy

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Speaker 5: one eleven is my prayer for you. May the Lord,

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Speaker 5: God of your fathers make you a thousand times more

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Speaker 5: than you are.

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Speaker 4: Can you receive it?

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Speaker 5: A thousand times more creativity, a thousand times more influence,

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Speaker 5: a thousand times more resources. We think, God, if you'll

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Speaker 5: just give me that dollar twenty an hour raise, I'll

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Speaker 5: be happy.

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Speaker 4: God.

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Speaker 5: If you just keep my children out of jail, that's

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Speaker 5: too small. God wants your children to be mighty in

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Speaker 5: the land. He wants you to set a new standard

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Speaker 5: for your family. I mentioned that my dad started Lakewood

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Speaker 5: with ninety people in nineteen fifty nine. If you added

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Speaker 5: up everyone that came through the year to Lakewood now,

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Speaker 5: it'd be over ninety thousand. That's a thousand times more.

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Speaker 5: Back then I could and comprehend it. But now I've

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Speaker 5: learned to take the limits off of God. You may

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Speaker 5: not see away, but God has a way. The scripture

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Speaker 5: talks about how God will give you houses that you.

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Speaker 4: Didn't have to build. You'll reap from vineyards that you

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Speaker 4: didn't plant.

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Speaker 5: God knows how to line up your handfuls on purpose. Now,

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Speaker 5: don't go around praying to become a better slave. God

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Speaker 5: wants to bring you totally out. He's not thinking addition,

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Speaker 5: he's thinking multiplication. And if you'll keep honoring God, I

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Speaker 5: believe and declare you're going to come in to explosive blessings.

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Speaker 5: God is bringing you into a wide land, a place

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Speaker 5: of abundance a thousand times more than you are in Jesus's.

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Speaker 4: Name, if you receive it, can you say him in today?

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