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Speaker 6: I like to get started with something funny, and I

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Speaker 6: heard about this group of scientists. They went to God

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Speaker 3: Like that little fish.

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Speaker 6: a good report. Well I heard you weren't feeling well. Yes,

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Speaker 6: but I know God's restoring health back into me. Well

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Speaker 6: I heard you're talking about laying off people at your company.

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Speaker 6: That's right, but I know when one door closes, God

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Speaker 6: will open up another.

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Speaker 3: Door for me. Well, somebody said, you're thinking about teaching

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Speaker 3: in the children's center. You really think you can do that.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I know so I am annoying it.

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Speaker 6: I am a quipped I am full of God's wisdom.

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Speaker 6: And if you'll stay in that attitude of faith, given

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Speaker 6: God praise, meditating on his promises, speaking words of faith

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Speaker 6: and victory, then just like that shark.

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Speaker 3: The enemy cannot close down. He can't harm you.

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Speaker 6: God always causes you to try him. Remember, God is

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Speaker 6: in control of your life. He's even in control of

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Speaker 6: your enemies. It may be an enemy of sickness, but

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Speaker 6: you know what God made your body.

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Speaker 3: He can correct what's wrong. Trust him.

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Speaker 6: May be an enemy of debt, an enemy of lack.

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Speaker 6: God can give you one idea that'll thrust you to

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Speaker 6: a whole new level. God can cause you to bump

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Speaker 6: into somebody that offers you a new position that totally

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Speaker 6: turns things around. God wants to do unusual things in

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Speaker 6: your life. He wants to show himself strong. The scripture says,

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Speaker 6: why don't you dare to believe him? Take the limits

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Speaker 6: off of him, stay in faith, and remember all it

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Speaker 6: takes is one touch of God's favor.

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Speaker 3: I know this friend of mine.

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Speaker 6: He's an older gentleman, and a few years ago he

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Speaker 6: lost his wife of many many years. Not too long

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Speaker 6: after that, he met another beautiful lady. They decided to

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Speaker 6: get married, and this gentleman had a real desire to

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Speaker 6: furnish his house with new furniture, just so they could

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Speaker 6: have a fresh, new start, a new beginning. But he

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Speaker 6: was retired and he didn't know if that's the best

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Speaker 6: way to spend his money, and.

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Speaker 3: So he just turned that over to God. Never told

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Speaker 3: anybody about it. He just kept it to himself.

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Speaker 6: And the scripture says in Psalm thirty seventy four that

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Speaker 6: if we will delight ourselves in the Lord, God will give.

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Speaker 3: Us the desires of our heart.

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Speaker 6: One translation says, he'll give us the secret petitions of

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Speaker 6: our heart. Notice we don't have to struggle to get them.

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Speaker 6: We don't have to live upset and frustrated trying to

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Speaker 6: make everything happen. If we'll just be believers, if we'll

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Speaker 6: just keep God first place and keep doing our best,

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Speaker 6: God promises he will give us those secret petitions. Well,

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Speaker 6: month after month went by and he didn't see anything happening,

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Speaker 6: but he didn't get discouraged. He just kept believing, kept

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Speaker 6: being faithful, kept being good to people, and God works

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Speaker 6: in mysterious ways. Certainly this isn't gonna happen like this

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Speaker 6: for every one of us.

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Speaker 3: But one day his son.

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Speaker 6: Called and said, Dad, you'll never believe what happened. I

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Speaker 6: just won the lottery thirty seven million dollars. Later, the

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Speaker 6: son not only bought his dad a new car. He

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Speaker 6: didn't buy him just new furniture. He bought him a

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Speaker 6: brand new house. Friends, God wants to do more than

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Speaker 6: we can even ask or think.

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Speaker 3: God is not limited.

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Speaker 6: We limit him with our own thinking and I'm not

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Speaker 6: telling any of you to go play the lottery. I

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Speaker 6: know some of you are thinking, thank you Lord, that's

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Speaker 6: a word I needed today.

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Speaker 3: Just give me the numbers.

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Speaker 6: That's all you're gonna remember from my sermon. No, we

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Speaker 6: never encourage people to play the lottery, but if you

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Speaker 6: do play and win, make sure you tithe. We'll forgive

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Speaker 6: you after you tithe. This gentleman told me, Joel, three

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Speaker 6: things I always tried to teach my sons. Don't smoke,

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Speaker 6: don't drink, and don't gamble. And you know what, two

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Speaker 6: out of three is not bad. But God wants to

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Speaker 6: give you the secret petitions of your heart. Number one,

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Speaker 6: you've got to be obedient, be a person of excellence,

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Speaker 6: have integrity, treat people right, and always keep God first

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Speaker 6: place in your life. And number two, you have to

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Speaker 6: take the limits off of God. Believe for his best,

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Speaker 6: get up every day expecting good things.

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Speaker 3: Well, Joel, this would never happen for me. You don't

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Speaker 3: know my luck.

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Speaker 6: Man, I never get any good breaks. You're right, it's

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Speaker 6: not going to happen for you.

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Speaker 3: This is for believers.

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Speaker 6: You got to get out of that negative mindset. Your

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Speaker 6: life will not change until your thinking changes. And every

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Speaker 6: morning before we leave the house, we should say out loud,

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Speaker 6: something good is going to happen to me. This is

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Speaker 6: the day the Lord has made, and I believe his

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Speaker 6: blessings are going to chase me down and overtake me.

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Speaker 6: Go out in an attitude of faith. Well, Joel, what

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Speaker 6: if I go out and I get stuck in traffic?

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Speaker 6: What if I have a lousy day that doesn't change anything.

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Speaker 6: You still give God praise. You still think him that

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Speaker 6: you're alive. You think him that tomorrow will be better

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Speaker 6: than today. We've got to learn to take the limits

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Speaker 6: off of God. Growing up, we knew a man by

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Speaker 6: the name of Casey Jones. He was in the business

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Speaker 6: of moving houses. Sometimes you see the big houses going

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Speaker 6: down the freeways. That's what Casey did for a living.

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Speaker 6: And he was a very unusual man. He would believe

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Speaker 6: for anything. And one day he and his men were

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Speaker 6: moving this big house and they had traveled several hours

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Speaker 6: way out into the country. When they finally got to

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Speaker 6: their destination, Casey realized he had forgotten the main chain

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Speaker 6: that he needed to unload that house, and he was

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Speaker 6: so disappointed. They were miles and miles from the nearest town.

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Speaker 6: It's getting late in the day and he didn't want

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Speaker 6: to have to come back the next day, and so

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Speaker 6: he decided to pray. And the men that were with

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Speaker 6: him they kind of laughed. They said, Casey, what are

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Speaker 6: you going to pray about? He said, I'm going to

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Speaker 6: pray and ask God to give me a chain, and

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Speaker 6: all they really begin to laugh. They said, Casey, are

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Speaker 6: you serious. What do you think God's going to rain

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Speaker 6: down a chain from heaven? He said, I don't know,

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Speaker 6: but the Bible says we have not because we asked not,

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Speaker 6: so I'm gonna ask. So he just bowed his head

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Speaker 6: and said, God, I know you love me. I know

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Speaker 6: there's nothing too difficult for you, and so I'm just

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Speaker 6: asking you to somehow someway give me a chain so

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Speaker 6: it don't have to come all the way back out

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Speaker 6: here tomorrow. Now, they were standing on the side of

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Speaker 6: this country road and a few feet in front of

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Speaker 6: them there was a sharp curve in the road, and

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Speaker 6: about that time, this old beat up pickup truck came

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Speaker 6: barreling down the road, going much faster than it should

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Speaker 6: and it had its tailgate open. And when that pickup

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Speaker 6: truck took the curve going too fast, a chain slung

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Speaker 6: out of the.

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Speaker 3: Back of the pickup.

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Speaker 6: It slid right across the road and curled up at

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Speaker 6: Casey Jones's feet.

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Speaker 3: He picked it up and said, here's my chain. Boys,

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Speaker 3: let's go to work. Friends.

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Speaker 6: God is a supernatural God. He can do what men

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Speaker 6: can't do. When we believe, all things become possible. I'm

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Speaker 6: asking you to take the limits off of God. Quit

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Speaker 6: trying to figure everything.

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Speaker 3: Out and just believe. Get in the wheelbarrow. You've seen

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Speaker 3: God do it in the past.

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Speaker 6: He's going to do it for you. Get in the future,

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Speaker 6: but you've got to make room for it in your

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Speaker 6: own thinking. Remember, no matter what comes against you in life,

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Speaker 6: God is in control. He's even in control of your enemies.

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Speaker 6: And if you'll be a believer and keep the limits

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Speaker 6: off of God, you will overcome any obstacle.

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Speaker 3: You'll rise higher and higher. And I know that God

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Speaker 3: will take you places that you've never even dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Do you receive it today? We never like to close our.

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Speaker 6: God past without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 6: the lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 6: Just say Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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

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Speaker 6: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 6: born again.

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