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

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Speaker 1: the podcast, and we want to tell you how much

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Speaker 1: we love you. Trusted You're going to have a blessed

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Speaker 1: Christmas season with you and your family. Know that we

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Speaker 1: pray for you every day, just speaking God's blessings and favor.

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Speaker 2: We love you, We are praying for you, and we

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Speaker 2: hope you have a very merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the podcast today.

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Speaker 2: I want to encourage you today that God has great

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Speaker 2: purpose for your life. You a whole meaning, you hold potential,

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Speaker 2: you hold everything you need to make this earth a

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Speaker 2: better place. And I want to charge us today to

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Speaker 2: just reevaluate our life and realize we are here for

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Speaker 2: God's purpose and God's glory. You know, sometimes it's easy

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Speaker 2: to feel like we're here to just go to our job,

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Speaker 2: go to school, have our friends, raise our family. But

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Speaker 2: can I tell you today God has marked you to

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Speaker 2: have an influence on this earth. See you just being here,

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Speaker 2: You being the best you can be, using your gifts,

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Speaker 2: using your talents, and honoring God.

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Speaker 3: You're making an eternal difference.

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Speaker 2: You are causing this earth to be enriched, and you

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Speaker 2: are moving the Kingdom of God forward. You see sometimes

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Speaker 2: we don't appreciate what God has given us. We don't

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Speaker 2: understand this gift and the purpose that we're here for.

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Speaker 2: And I believe when we shake ourselves and we say listen, listen,

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Speaker 2: I'm not here by accident.

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Speaker 3: I'm not here because my parents wanted a baby.

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Speaker 2: I'm not here just to take up space and time

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Speaker 2: on this earth. But I'm here for an eternal reason.

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Speaker 2: My being here has meaning and my life matters. You see,

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Speaker 2: when God looks at you, he looks at you like

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Speaker 2: you matter, and he wants you to take what He's

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Speaker 2: given you, and I want you to mix it with faith,

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Speaker 2: and he wants you to move forward on this earth.

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Speaker 3: You see a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of times we can't see what God has given us.

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Speaker 3: Let's just be really real, you know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we can't see the gifts and talents. We can

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Speaker 2: look at other people and we can see how they excel.

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Speaker 2: We can see how they've got such a great personality. Oh,

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Speaker 2: it seems so easy for them. They can just do this.

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Speaker 2: They're so creative. Oh they're so smart. How can they

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Speaker 2: figure all that out? We can see it in others,

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Speaker 2: but we can't always see it in ourselves. And see

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Speaker 2: when we can't see it in ourselves doesn't mean it's

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Speaker 2: not there. See, God sees it in us, because God

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Speaker 2: put it there. The Bible says, when Jesus went to Earth,

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Speaker 2: he led the captives free, and he gave gifts to men.

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Speaker 3: Do you know He's given you gifts. We don't all

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Speaker 3: have the same gifts.

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Speaker 2: We've got to be comfortable with our gifts. We got

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Speaker 2: to be able to recognize our gifts. We've got to

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Speaker 2: walk in those gifts and not compare those gifts. We

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Speaker 2: got to know that our gifts are here for a purpose,

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Speaker 2: and we've got to appreciate what God has given us.

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Speaker 2: I think about Moses. He was raised as an Egyptian.

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Speaker 2: He ended up fleeing to the wilderness, and he was

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Speaker 2: there for forty years. God appeared to him in a

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Speaker 2: God knew exactly who he was talking to. He knew

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Speaker 2: everything about Moses. He created Moses. He saw Moses floating

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Speaker 3: Doing a work and I'm gonna use you to do it.

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Speaker 3: See it's so interesting.

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Speaker 2: I can only imagine Moses standing there like, really, God,

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Speaker 2: it says an exodus for or. He literally pleaded with God.

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Speaker 2: He said, no, God, not me. You've got the wrong man. God,

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Speaker 2: But God was saying, no, I've been shaping you from

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Speaker 3: And you know, God used Moses in a powerful.

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Speaker 2: In Acts seven, twenty two hundreds of years later, after

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Speaker 2: all the wisdom of the Egyptian, and.

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Speaker 3: He was powerful in speech and action.

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Speaker 2: Moses was powerful in speech and action. That was a

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Speaker 2: far cry from what he thought about himself. It was

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Speaker 2: a far cry from what he was telling God.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it interesting what he couldn't see in himself? God

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Speaker 3: You may not be able to see.

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Speaker 2: Your gifts, your talents, your abilities, But can I tell

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Speaker 2: you if you will use them for God, let God

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Speaker 2: take those and turn them into supernatural abilities. People will

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Speaker 2: see what you have and you will accomplish great things

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Speaker 3: But it's up to us to mix.

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Speaker 2: Our abilities, our gifts that God's given us with faith

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Speaker 2: and get up every day and put one foot.

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Speaker 2: Because I can tell you when God asked you to

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Speaker 2: do something. Can I just give you a little hint

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Speaker 3: Is not gonna be easy. God's gonna call you to

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Speaker 2: Why God, I like easy, I like comfortable. God, I

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Speaker 2: like to do those things that are easy for me

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Speaker 2: to take those things that are easy for you to

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Speaker 3: And I want you to give them to me, because.

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Speaker 2: See those difficult places, that's where you grow. When God

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Speaker 2: speaks to those difficult places, you know what he's doing.

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Speaker 3: He's not being me. He's speaking to your potential.

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Speaker 2: He's saying, if you stay here, you're not gonna become

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Speaker 2: everything you were designed to be.

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Speaker 3: He's not gonna.

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Speaker 2: Call you to the easy places. He's gonna call you

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Speaker 2: to some tough things. But just like Moses, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: look back and you're gonna go. God, you did more

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Speaker 2: than I could ask, think or imagine. God, You've fulfilled

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Speaker 2: of God within us. We're gonna have to use our faith.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have to believe in our abilities. The apostle

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Speaker 2: Paul wrote to.

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Speaker 2: He wrote a letter to him for two reasons, One

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Speaker 2: because he loved him, and two because he saw that

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Speaker 2: Timothy was extremely discouraged. He was facing some situations and

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Speaker 2: he did not feel like he had the ability to

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Speaker 2: carry out what God had called him to do. In fact,

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Speaker 2: his mentor, Paul, was in prison. The mastermind of everything.

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Speaker 2: And he thought, oh my gosh, am I ever going

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Speaker 2: to see Paul again? I mean, I need Paul. Have

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Speaker 2: how he felt, Paul, where are you? I cannot do

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Speaker 3: But Paul wanted him to know this, but he could.

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Speaker 2: So Paul said, there's a combination, a winning combination.

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Speaker 2: He said, Timothy, I'm writing you this letter to remind

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Speaker 2: you to stir up the gifts of God within you.

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Speaker 2: By But since it's Mother's Day, can I back up

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Speaker 2: Paul said to all of you mothers out there. I

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Speaker 2: I really believe this is what God's saying to you today.

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Speaker 2: He said, Timothy, I see the faith of your grandmother

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Speaker 2: What a compliment I mean for a mother, that's a

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Speaker 2: I was a good example to my children. He was saying,

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Speaker 2: But then he said this, Paul, I believe this faith

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Speaker 2: lives in you. So it's time for you to use

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Speaker 2: your faith and stir up your gifts. I think in essence,

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Speaker 2: he was really giving those mothers the greatest compliment in

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Speaker 2: an example, but it's time to find your faith, and

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Speaker 2: it's time to mix it with your ability, because you've

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Speaker 2: dream would be that my children would find their own faith. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I've been a good example, but they would find their.

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Speaker 2: With the ability and the gifts that God's given them,

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Speaker 2: and they would charge into this world having a positive effect,

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Speaker 2: an eternal result on this earth. See, they're not here

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Speaker 2: You're going to go through many different seasons of life.

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Speaker 3: Don't just do it thinking you're getting through it. Do

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Speaker 2: Stir up the gifts you are making ways everywhere you

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Speaker 2: go for God. You have an assignment. God needs you.

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Speaker 2: Your life matters. Invite Jesus into every area of your life.

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Speaker 2: Invite him into your boat, so to speak. You see

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Speaker 2: the first time that Jesus met Simon Peter before he

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Speaker 3: He said, you need to push me out a little ways.

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Speaker 2: And Simon Peter let him in his boat, and he

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Speaker 2: is continue the work that I am doing. He was

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Speaker 2: So he could finish the work. Now, Simon Peter's boat,

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Speaker 2: it's real interesting. The day that Simon Peter let him

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Speaker 2: it became more than a job.

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Speaker 3: I've watched my mother.

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Speaker 2: She's always been the type of person who wanted to

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Speaker 2: And I watch her from that business encourage people, invite

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Speaker 3: And God's been good to her. He sustained her business.

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Speaker 2: And I believe it's because he said, I still need

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Speaker 2: that you'll give me your boat. Cham will keep you afloat.

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Speaker 2: He'll keep you afloat, He'll keep you afloat. What an

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Speaker 3: I feel a little like Timothy. I'm blessed that way.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, the greatest compliment to my mother

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Speaker 3: I'm finding my faith and I almost stir at my gifts,

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