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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Juel and Victoria. We are so glad

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Speaker 1: that you are a part of this podcast. We believe

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Speaker 3: the time. We believe it's going to be a beautiful

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the missage to day. God bless you. It's great

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Speaker 3: you will make you feel right at home now. I

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Speaker 3: hope you'll stay connected with us during the week.

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Speaker 3: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 3: this little girl. She was sitting on her grandfather's lap.

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Speaker 3: She noticed how wrinkled his face was, and she contemplated.

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Speaker 3: Of laughed and said, yes, honey, he made me a

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Speaker 2: She then asked, did God make me?

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Speaker 3: He said, yes, he made you just a little while ago.

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Speaker 3: She thought about it a minute and said, Granddaddy, God's getting.

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Speaker 2: Better, isn't he.

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Speaker 3: Saying like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 3: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 3: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: God bless you.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about discover your greatness.

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Speaker 3: Saul was the leader of Israel for forty days. A

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Speaker 2: He said, who is this.

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Speaker 3: You come through your father, but you come from Almighty God.

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Speaker 3: He knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb.

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Speaker 3: You may have had a father like Jesse that couldn't

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Speaker 2: God knows how to bring you in.

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Speaker 3: He knows how to cause the gifts he's put in

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Speaker 3: will be people like Saul in disbelief, thinking how could

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Speaker 3: you may have had a great family, people that have excelled,

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Speaker 3: He wants every generation to increase. Now, I'm proud to

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Speaker 3: Recognize the gifts, the courage, the creativity, the greatness.

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Speaker 3: Don't come up with excuses to settle I've gone as

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Speaker 3: There are gifts and talance in you he's about to

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Speaker 3: My father's parents, my grandparents, they were very good people.

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Speaker 3: They lost everything during the Great Depression. They were very poor,

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Speaker 2: Him to become a pastor.

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Speaker 3: Nobody in his family had any kind of training for ministry,

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Speaker 3: He told his parents he was going to leave the

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Speaker 3: Along the way, I can hear someone asking whose son

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Speaker 3: you're still going to do great things. You're still going

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Speaker 3: Your heavenly father overrides what people do. Your greatness doesn't

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Speaker 2: It comes from your father in heaven.

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Speaker 3: of Almighty God. That day was a turning point.

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Speaker 2: In the young boy's life.

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Speaker 3: The stronghold of insecurity and shame was broken. Thirty years later,

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Speaker 3: that young boy was elected governor of Tennessee. If you

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Speaker 3: ask him, Ben Hooper would tell you the day he

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Speaker 3: really got elected was the day that minister told him

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Speaker 3: who his father was. Tell me about your father. I

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Speaker 3: don't mean your natural father. They may not have been there,

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Speaker 3: they may have made mistakes, they may not have believed

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Speaker 3: in you. Tell me about your heavenly father. Do you

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Speaker 3: realize who you belong to, that your gifts, your talents,

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Speaker 3: your greatness doesn't come from people, from family, from relatives.

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Speaker 3: It comes from your heavenly father. When he breathed life

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Speaker 3: into you, he put his DNA on the inside. That's

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Speaker 3: how David could do something no one in his family

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Speaker 3: had done. That's how my father could break out of

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Speaker 3: poverty and limited thinking and make a difference with his life.

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Speaker 3: Our natural DNA gets passed down, but your spiritual DNA

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Speaker 3: will override the natural.

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Speaker 2: I saw a.

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Speaker 3: Documentary on championship race sources.

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Speaker 2: You see at the Kentucky Derby.

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Speaker 3: It's not a coincidence that these horses are the fastest

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Speaker 3: horses in the world. They've been carefully studied, carefully bred

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Speaker 3: for generations. It can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars

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Speaker 3: to breed a race horse with a champion stallion.

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Speaker 2: It's very expensive.

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Speaker 3: Before breeding, the owner will go back fifty or sixty

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Speaker 2: They'll research his father, his grandfather.

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Speaker 3: They'll study how long their stride was, the length of

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Speaker 3: their legs, their takeoff speed, their endurance. With all this information,

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Speaker 3: they'll choose the stallion they believe to be the perfect match.

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Speaker 3: They understand winners don't just randomly happen. It's in their DNA.

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Speaker 3: That's how it is with you and me. Because of

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Speaker 3: who your heavenly father is, you can defeat giants, you

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Speaker 3: can accomplish great dreams, you can break addictions, you can

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Speaker 3: set standards. I'm not looking at ordinary people. You have

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Speaker 3: the DNA of a champion. There's no limit to what

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Speaker 3: you can achieve. I know who your father is. There's

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Speaker 3: no obstacle you can't overcome. I've seen your father do it.

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Speaker 3: There's no struggle that can hold you back. Your father

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Speaker 3: is Jehovah Jihrah, the Lord, your provider. Now do your part,

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Speaker 3: come out of your tenth. Get a new perspective. You're

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Speaker 3: not limited by who raised you. You're not at a

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Speaker 3: disadvantage because of what you didn't get.

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Speaker 2: Who went before you.

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Speaker 3: You are hearing this because you're about to see the

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Speaker 3: greatness in you come out. People are going to wonder,

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Speaker 3: is this the Carpenter son? Is this Jesse's son? Is

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Speaker 3: this jack o'stein son? Get ready, You're about to divide

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Speaker 3: the odds.

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Speaker 2: I believe and.

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Speaker 3: Declare God is about to do something unusual, uncommon favor

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Speaker 3: that will catapult you ahead. Gifts and talents coming out

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Speaker 3: that you didn't know you had, courage, confidence, creativity like

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Speaker 3: you've never seen. Healing is coming, promotion, good breaks, the

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Speaker 3: fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, and if you

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Speaker 3: receive it.

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Speaker 2: Can you say amen? Today?

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Speaker 3: And I'd like to give you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 3: Jesus the Lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 3: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 3: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 3: and keep God first place.

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Speaker 4: It starts with just a tiny seed from it tender

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Speaker 4: bud sprout. The miracle of new life blooms and thrives.

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Speaker 4: But how do you experience the same miraculous and extraordinary

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Speaker 4: growth in your own life?

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Speaker 3: Sometimes our life is limited because we're believing too small.

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Speaker 2: Faith is like a sea. When you believe all things

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Speaker 2: are possible.

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Speaker 3: That's when you'll see new growth, opportunity, and healing.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to figure out how it's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: All we have to do is believe. There may not

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Speaker 1: be a way in the natural, but our God is supernatural.

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Speaker 3: We'd like to send you this time next year Believe

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Speaker 3: year from now? Who knows what God will do in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four if you'll take the limits off of

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Speaker 3: him and believe for the great things He's placed in

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