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Speaker 5: again for coming out. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 5: and one day Adam was feeling very lonely. God said Adam,

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Speaker 5: This person will cook for you and wash your clothes.

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Speaker 6: She will not nag you. She will always.

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Speaker 5: Agree with you, and if you ever have a disagreement,

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Speaker 6: She was wrong.

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Speaker 5: Adam said, Wow, God, what will a woman like this cost?

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Speaker 5: God said an arm and a leg. Adam said, what

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Speaker 5: can I get for a rib? And the rest is history.

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Speaker 5: Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 5: This is I am what it says I am. I

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Speaker 5: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 5: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 5: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 6: In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about releasing control.

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Speaker 6: It's easy to get so focused on.

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Speaker 5: Our goals, our dreams that we're not going to be

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Speaker 5: happy until it happens. When we put God in a

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Speaker 5: want it, how to do it, who to use, We've

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Speaker 5: ways are not our ways.

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Speaker 6: They are better than our ways.

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Speaker 5: And if you're only going to be happy if it

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Speaker 5: To say, God, this is what I want, this is

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Speaker 6: But God, you know what's best for me. I don't

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Speaker 5: You're not always fighting trying to make your plans work out.

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Speaker 5: order to be happy, the enemy can use against you.

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Speaker 5: A mature attitude, says even if it doesn't work out

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Speaker 5: When our dreams and goals start to frustrate us, when

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Speaker 5: One of the best prayers that we can ever pray

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Speaker 5: is God, not my will, but let your will be done.

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Speaker 5: When you release control, you're showing God by your actions

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Speaker 5: that you trust him. There are times in life God

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Speaker 6: To release the thing that you want the most. It's

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Speaker 5: If you will pass that test, at some point, God

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Speaker 6: This is what happened with Abraham.

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Speaker 5: His son Isaac, the child he had dreamed about year

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Speaker 5: Abraham made this decision to release control. He said, God,

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Speaker 5: then God said, no, don't do it.

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Speaker 6: He gave him his son back.

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Speaker 5: The question is, can you be happy if it doesn't

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Speaker 5: going to give God praise. You're doing what Abraham did.

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Speaker 6: You don't have to have the.

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Speaker 5: to God that you trust him. That's when God will

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Speaker 5: give you the desires of your heart. When we were

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Speaker 5: had to do what I'm asking you to do, I

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Speaker 5: said God. I believe that this facility is supposed to

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Speaker 5: be ours. Deep down, God, I believe You've saved it

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Speaker 5: going to still be my best at the other location.

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Speaker 5: I'm still going to be happy and enjoy my life.

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Speaker 5: I release control. God, do it your way. It wasn't

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Speaker 5: long after that that things started falling into place.

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Speaker 5: When you release control, you are passing a very important test,

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Speaker 6: You're saying, God, I believe you know what's best for me.

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Speaker 5: Many times, like with Abraham, like with this facility, that's

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Speaker 6: To you the very thing that you're believing for.

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Speaker 5: I know this lady that had a husband that wouldn't

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Speaker 5: he just wasn't interested.

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Speaker 5: She did everything she could think of. She put scripture

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Speaker 5: I don't understand it. I'm doing everything that I can.

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Speaker 5: I told her what I'm telling you. The best thing

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Speaker 6: Turn it over to God. You've prayed, you believed, you're

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Speaker 5: Now put it on the altar. Have the attitude if

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Speaker 5: If it never changes, I'm still going to be happy.

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Speaker 5: When you show God that you don't have to have

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Speaker 5: to work. There may be things that are frustrating you

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Speaker 5: not going to live my life upset, not going to

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Speaker 6: God. I'm putting this on the altar. I'm giving it

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Speaker 5: She got her joy back, she got that spring in

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Speaker 6: To make me happy. I'm will be happy right where

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Speaker 5: About two years later, one Sunday morning, her husband asked.

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Speaker 5: They came that Sunday that was over eight years ago.

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Speaker 5: Now, I'm not saying to release the promise, to give

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Speaker 5: If you live in Houston during the summers, it's very

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Speaker 5: The traffic may not ever change, but you can change,

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Speaker 5: Your time is too valuable to waste it. Upset in traffic,

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Speaker 5: Don't allow yourself to be upset. I was in Australia

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Speaker 5: the time. They say no worries, like we say you're.

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Speaker 6: Welcome here in the States.

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Speaker 5: If you're at dinner and the waiter brings you the food,

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Speaker 5: you say thank you. They answer back, no worries. I

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Speaker 5: dropped my fork on the ground. They came running over,

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Speaker 5: pick it up.

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Speaker 6: No worries.

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Speaker 5: They're so relaxed, easy going, nothing them, building's on fire,

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Speaker 5: No worries.

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Speaker 6: Robbery in progress, no worries.

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Speaker 5: I must have heard that phrase twenty thirty times a day.

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Speaker 6: And even though they use it in a different.

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Speaker 5: Way, I love the fact that it reminds you not

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Speaker 5: to worry. Puts it is that should be our motto.

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Speaker 6: No worries. Traffic is backed up, no worries.

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Speaker 5: God has directed my steps. I'm at the right place

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Speaker 5: at the right time. Somebody's rude to us.

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Speaker 6: No worries. They're having a bad day. I've already decided

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Speaker 6: to have a good day. Business is a little slow.

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Speaker 6: No worries. God is my provider. He's supplying all of

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Speaker 6: my needs.

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Speaker 5: If we would develop this no worries mentality, I wonder

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Speaker 5: not only how much more we'd enjoy life, but how

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Speaker 5: much longer we would live. Proverb says a relaxed attitude

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Speaker 5: lengthens life.

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Speaker 6: The opposite is true.

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Speaker 5: If you're living upset, offended world, worried, you're taking time

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Speaker 5: off of your life.

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Speaker 6: We need you here.

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Speaker 5: Don't leave before your time is up. If you'll start trusting, relaxing,

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Speaker 5: going with the flow, you can add time to your life.

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Speaker 5: We're always looking for that fountain of youth. Ways to

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Speaker 5: look younger, to live longer. One way is to develop

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Speaker 5: this no worries mentality. Quit being upset over things that

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Speaker 5: you have no control over. Quit trying to change things

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Speaker 5: that you cannot change. Worry less, trust more, stress less,

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Speaker 5: laugh more, love.

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Speaker 6: More, enjoy more.

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Speaker 5: When our daughter Alexandra was about five years old, one night,

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Speaker 5: I needed to run up to the store to pick

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Speaker 5: something up. It was going to close in thirty minutes.

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Speaker 5: Victoria said, we'll never make it, Joel, I said, sure,

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Speaker 5: we will. Just help me get the kids ready and

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Speaker 5: let's go. She got them dressed real fast, and I

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Speaker 5: grabbed their shoes, and we took to the store and

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Speaker 5: it was.

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Speaker 6: Like I was on a mission from God.

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Speaker 5: I was so sad. I needed to get what I wanted.

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Speaker 5: I did not want to have to come back the

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Speaker 5: next day. We arrived at the store's parking lot with

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Speaker 5: could still make it, but I had to put little

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Speaker 5: Alexandra's shoes on now. I got her left shoe on,

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Speaker 5: went to put the right one on, but I couldn't

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Speaker 5: get it to fit. I worked and worked and struggled,

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Speaker 5: but it just wouldn't go on right. And I took

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Speaker 5: it off and noticed that it was another left shoe.

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Speaker 5: I thought that couldn't be right, and I compared it

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Speaker 5: with the other one.

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Speaker 6: Sure enough, we had two left shoes.

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Speaker 5: I said, Victoria, why do we have two of the

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Speaker 5: exact same shoes? She said, oh, Joel, her little cousin

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Speaker 5: was over at the house playing today and she has

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Speaker 5: the same pair of shoes.

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Speaker 6: We must have grabbed the wrong ones. I thought, oh great.

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Speaker 5: Now I had about four minutes to go, and I

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Speaker 5: was really stressed out. And Alexandra was a daddy's girl.

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Speaker 5: She would do anything in the world for me. So

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Speaker 5: I got this idea, said Alexandra. It may be a

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Speaker 5: little tight, but will you put this left shoe on

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Speaker 5: your right foot and wear it for daddy? She looked

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Speaker 5: at me, I'll never forget it, smile real big and

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Speaker 5: said no, I won't.

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Speaker 6: I knew right then and there it wasn't meant to be.

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Speaker 5: Just go with the flow. That was a part of

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Speaker 5: the ten percent. Daughter has two left shoes. No use

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Speaker 5: getting upset over what you can't change. My plans didn't

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Speaker 5: work out, No worries. I can come back the next day.

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Speaker 5: God still directed my steps. Think of it this way.

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Speaker 5: If you learned you only had three months to live,

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Speaker 5: how many of the things that upset you last week

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Speaker 5: would you let upset you this week. Would you be

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Speaker 5: stressed because your computer died? Would you be frustrated because

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Speaker 5: your daughter has two left shoes? Would you be upset

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Speaker 5: because somebody got your parking spot, somebody.

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Speaker 6: Was rude to get the grocery store? No, let it go.

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Speaker 6: Life is too short to live that way. Some of

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Speaker 6: you are carrying around way too much.

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Speaker 5: You need to start releasing the worries, release the offense,

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Speaker 5: release the struggles. You don't have to make your dreams

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Speaker 5: come to pass. Take the pressure off of yourself. Only

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Speaker 5: God can bring the sunshine. Trust him and he'll get

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Speaker 5: you to where you're supposed to be. If you'll start

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Speaker 5: releasing control, you'll not only enjoy life more, but you'll

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Speaker 5: live longer. God promises he will work out his plan.

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Speaker 6: For your life. I believe and declare he.

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Speaker 5: Will open the right doors, He'll bring the right people.

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Speaker 5: He'll turn negative situations around, and you'll step.

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Speaker 6: Into the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 5: In Jesus's name if you receive it, can you say

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Speaker 5: him in today?

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Speaker 5: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just

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Speaker 5: say Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins.

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Speaker 6: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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