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

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you, and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. If you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop by and be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. But thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. And I like to get started each

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Speaker 1: week with something kind of funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 1: this woman that surprised a burglar in her kitchen one night.

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Speaker 1: She was alone and unarmed, and she didn't really know

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Speaker 1: what to do, so she thought she would just shout

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Speaker 1: a Scripture verse at him, and so she shouted out

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Speaker 1: Acts two thirty eight. The burglar suddenly froze in his tracks.

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Speaker 1: The police soon arrived, and they were amazed at how

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Speaker 1: a woman with no weapon could do this, And they

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Speaker 1: asked the burglar, what was it about that Scripture verse

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Speaker 1: that had such an effect on you? He said, scripture?

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Speaker 1: What scripture? I thought? She said, she had an acts

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Speaker 1: in two thirty eighths. All right, hold your Bible up,

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Speaker 1: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I'll never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about reaching your highest potential. It's easy to get stuck

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Speaker 1: in life where we think we've reached our limits, we've

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Speaker 1: gone as far in our career as we can go,

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Speaker 1: will never be any more talented, never rise any higher.

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Speaker 1: But that's very untrue. As long as you're breathing, you

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Speaker 1: have potential that you've not yet tapped into. There are

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Speaker 1: gifts and talents that you've not yet discovered. You can

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Speaker 1: go further in your career. You can rise higher than

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Speaker 1: you are. There is a hidden treasure that's buried on

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Speaker 1: the inside. When God created you, he not only breathed

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Speaker 1: his life into you, but he deposited a part of

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Speaker 1: himself into you. He put in you everything you need

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Speaker 1: to fulfill your destiny on the inside. Right now, you

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Speaker 1: have seeds of greatness just waiting to take root and blossom.

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Speaker 1: And if we're going to tap into this hidden treasure,

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Speaker 1: we have to have a pioneering spirit. You can go

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Speaker 1: where no one in your family has ever gone. You

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Speaker 1: can accomplish things that you once thought were impossible. You

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Speaker 1: have talent and ability that has not yet come out

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Speaker 1: to the full. My challenge to you today is don't

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Speaker 1: die with the treasure still buried. Your gift to yourself

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Speaker 1: and your gift to this world is to release the

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Speaker 1: treasure that's been locked up on the inside. And I

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Speaker 1: found that God always puts bigger things in our spirit

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Speaker 1: That's how He stretches us. So don't be surprised if

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Speaker 1: you're able to do it, that's okay. You may not

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Speaker 1: feel like you're able to, But when you take that

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Speaker 1: step of faith, God will give you strength, He'll give

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Speaker 1: you ability, he'll give you favor. That's when the treasure

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Speaker 1: will begin to be released. I believe in the coming days,

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Speaker 1: God's going to present us with new and exciting opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Some of you are going to be offered a new

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Speaker 1: like it's over your head. You'll be tempted to shrink

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Speaker 1: over God's head. He's already deposited in you exactly what

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Speaker 1: have given you the desire if you didn't already have

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Speaker 1: what it takes. Rise up in faith, with boldness, with confidence,

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Speaker 1: knowing that you are well able. You'll begin to see

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Speaker 1: new gifts, new talents, new strengths, new ability. They'll begin

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Speaker 1: to come forth. They're in you. You've just got to

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Speaker 1: work with God to get them out. Some of you

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Speaker 1: are going to have an opportunity to go back to school,

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Speaker 1: where you've never gone before. If you want to walk

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Speaker 1: It's interesting when Peter walked on the water, there were

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Speaker 1: the only one, so to speak, to release his potential.

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Speaker 1: You have the potential in you right now for every

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Speaker 1: opportunity that God brings across your path. But you've got

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Speaker 1: to do like Peter and get out of your safe

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Speaker 1: you know you need God's help. That's where you're stretching

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Speaker 1: is what I did when my father went to be

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Speaker 1: with the Lord. It was nine years ago this week now.

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Speaker 1: I never dreamed I could do this. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: more quiet and reserved. I told my father a thousand

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Speaker 1: But when my father died, all of a sudden, I

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Speaker 1: had a desire and I knew that. I knew I

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Speaker 1: was supposed to step up and pasture the church. But

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Speaker 1: part of my God given destiny. So I took that

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Speaker 1: step of faith, and little by little I discovered a gift,

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many people, I wonder how many people

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Speaker 1: die with the treasure still in them. They let their fears,

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Speaker 1: their insecurities, their lack of confidence to keep them from

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Speaker 1: stepping out. Don't let that be you. You have so

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Speaker 1: much more in you, more than you realize. You can

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Speaker 1: rise higher than you think. You have talent that's not

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Speaker 1: yet been fully developed. You have gifts that you've not

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Speaker 1: take advantage of your God given opportunities, you'll be amazed

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Speaker 1: at what you accomplish. You'll look back one day like

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Speaker 1: I do now and say, man, I can't believe I

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Speaker 1: can do this. I didn't even know it was in me.

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Speaker 1: That's the way God is. He wants to amaze you

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Speaker 1: with his goodness. He wants to take your places that

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Speaker 1: you've never thought possible. Don't get satisfied where you are.

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Speaker 1: Don't get too comfortable to where you think, well, I'm

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Speaker 1: doing pretty good in life, Joel. I've gone as far

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Speaker 1: as my parents gone, as far as my grandparents know.

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Speaker 1: God wants you to go further. He wants every generation

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Speaker 1: to increase. This is your year to do something that

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Speaker 1: you've never done before. This is your year to stretch

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Speaker 1: your faith. In Joshua three verse four, God had been

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Speaker 1: leading the people of Israel, and he made this one statement.

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Speaker 1: You have not passed this way before. I believe God

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Speaker 1: is saying that to each one of us. New seasons

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Speaker 1: are on the horizon. New opportunities are coming your way.

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Speaker 1: This is your year to go beyond the barriers of

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Speaker 1: the past. This is your year to release your potential

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Speaker 1: by stepping into uncharted territories. And you may have had

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Speaker 1: some great victories in the past, but let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen anything yet. God never performs his greatest

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Speaker 1: feats in our yesterdays, they are still in our future.

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Speaker 1: There to believe, there, to take some steps of faith,

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Speaker 1: you say, Joel, I don't know if this is from

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Speaker 1: me today. I'm just to stay at home mom. I'm

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Speaker 1: business person. No, you're not just anything. You're a child

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Speaker 1: of the most High God, and on the inside of

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Speaker 1: you you are full of unlimited possibilities. You have not

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Speaker 1: tapped into everything that's in you. You have not seen

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Speaker 1: your best days in your career, in your finances, in

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Speaker 1: your relationships. Why don't you enlarge your vision? Why don't

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Speaker 1: you believe that you do have what it takes when

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Speaker 1: these opportunities arise. Have the attitude I know who I am.

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Speaker 1: No obstacle is too high, no challenge is too difficult,

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Speaker 1: do what God has called me to do. You've got

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Speaker 1: to have that pioneering spirit, be willing to go into

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Speaker 1: uncharted territories. Don't get complacent. Take on things that stretch you,

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Speaker 1: things that you've never done, before I was reading about

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Speaker 1: The test just had two short sentences. It read, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: do many times in life. We just settle where we

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Speaker 1: are instead of stretching, instead of believing, instead of really

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Speaker 1: developing our potential. We sit back and say, Hey, a season,

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Speaker 1: doing good enough. Maybe so, But you have more in you.

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Speaker 1: Don't take the easy way out. Keep growing, keep learning,

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Speaker 1: Stir up the gifts that are on the inside. You

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Speaker 1: have to put a demand on you potential. That's the

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Speaker 1: only way it'll be released. I remember when I was

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Speaker 1: growing up, our next door neighbor had a big german

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Speaker 1: I was in my backyard playing baseball with some friends

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Speaker 1: didn't think much about it. I'd been over there plenty

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Speaker 1: It was a six foot fence, and I went over

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Speaker 1: there and I picked up the ball, and when I did,

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Speaker 1: For some reason, he was not on the leash this day,

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Speaker 1: and my heart sunk. I thought I was good as dead.

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Speaker 1: I turned around and took off, running toward our fence

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Speaker 1: We all at times have tried and failed. He hit

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Speaker 1: God says it's over. You still have the potential on

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Speaker 1: the inside. I was watching the football playoffs the other night.

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Speaker 1: It's a really great game. The score was going back

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Speaker 1: and forth, and in the second half, the field goal

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Speaker 1: kicker for the New York Giants twice had an opportunity

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Speaker 1: distance was easily makeable. I mean, it wasn't that far,

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Speaker 1: not for a professional kicker, but both times he missed.

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Speaker 1: And I mean it's a big deal to miss once

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Speaker 1: in professional football, but in a playoff game, to miss

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Speaker 1: twice in one half is really something else, and the

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Speaker 1: coach was just beside himself. Went into overtime, the Giants

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Speaker 1: got the ball back. They were marching down the field

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Speaker 1: trying to score a touchdown first one that scores wins

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Speaker 1: in overtime, but once again they got stopped. It was

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Speaker 1: fourth down and the coach had to make a decision.

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Speaker 1: Was he going to let him attempt another field goal?

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Speaker 1: This one would be further than the two he had

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Speaker 1: already missed or was he just going to punk the

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Speaker 1: ball away? And the coach was just debating on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Only has like twenty thirty seconds to make a decision.

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Speaker 1: So he looked up and down the sideline to see

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Speaker 1: what the kicker thought. He couldn't find him anywhere. Finally

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Speaker 1: he looked on the field. The kicker was already lined

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Speaker 1: coach said, when he saw the confidence and determination of

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Speaker 1: that young man, that made his decision to let him

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Speaker 1: attempt it. And this time, even though it was further,

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Speaker 1: he stepped up kicked it straight through the uprights, won

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Speaker 1: the game for the Giants. You may have missed a

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Speaker 1: couple times in life, maybe a couple hundred times. We

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Speaker 1: all have. But my question to you is are you

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Speaker 1: running back on the field. Do you still know like

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Speaker 1: this young man that you've got it on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Don't let your mistakes, your disappointments, life's failures to keep

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Speaker 1: you from pressing forward. The potential is still in you.

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Speaker 1: You're well able to do what God has called you

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Speaker 1: to do. Now, I believe in the coming days you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have opportunities to release your potential in greater ways

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Speaker 1: than you've ever seen before. Don't pass it by, don't

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Speaker 1: take a sea. That's okay, but you were made for

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Speaker 1: more than that. As long as you're breathing, you got

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Speaker 1: more on the inside. You can rise higher than you are.

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Speaker 1: It may seem impossible, but as God was with Moses,

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Speaker 1: he will be with you. Don't die with your treasure

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Speaker 1: still buried. Get out of your safe zone and get

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Speaker 1: over into the faith zone. And just as God called

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Speaker 1: strength and courage out of Joshua, I'm calling strength out

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Speaker 1: of you. I'm calling courage out of you. I'm speaking

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Speaker 1: to every gift, every talent. I'm just calling them four

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Speaker 1: not halfway, not three fourths of the way. But I

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Speaker 1: declare that your potential is gonna be released to the full.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna go places you never thought possible. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: discover gifts and talents that you never even knew you had.

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Speaker 1: So put your shoulders back, carry yourself with confidence. Your

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Speaker 1: children are the most high God. If you'll be bold

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Speaker 1: and dare to take these steps of faith, God's gonna

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Speaker 1: breathe in your direction. You're gonna go into uncharted territories.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna accomplish more than you ever even thought possible. Amen,

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Speaker 1: how many of you receive it today? We never like

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Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 2: Are you in a situation where you feel lost, afraid, hopeless,

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Speaker 3: It's time for your turnaround.

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Speaker 1: We all face situations that look like they'll never change.

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