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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 5: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 3: Welcome. It's a joy to come into your homes each week.

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Speaker 5: We love you and we know that God has great

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Speaker 5: things in store for each one of you. And I've

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Speaker 5: been saying it almost every weekend. We're believing that two

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Speaker 5: I know God's going to do great things in your life.

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Speaker 3: Hey, come out and see us whenever you can. Don't

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Speaker 3: Come by and see us sometimes. Hey, God bless you.

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Speaker 3: I like to start with something funny each week.

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Speaker 5: And of course you know these are not doctrinally correct,

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Speaker 5: especially today's just to make us laugh. But I heard

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Speaker 5: about these three men, a Baptist, a Catholic, and a Charismatic.

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Speaker 5: They suddenly died and went to heaven, and Saint Peter

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Speaker 5: met them and said, I'm sorry, guys, your living quarters

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Speaker 5: so he called Satan and asked if he would keep

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Speaker 5: Satan reluctantly agreed, and a few hours later Satan called

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Speaker 5: The Catholic man is forgiving everybody, the Baptist man is

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Speaker 5: saving everybody, and the Charismatic has already raised enough money

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Speaker 5: for air conditioning. All right, hold up your Bible, say

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Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says, I am,

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Speaker 3: I have what it says. I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 5: stirring up the gift that's on the inside. Every one

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Speaker 5: of you is full of incredible potential. God has put

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Speaker 5: You have something to offer that nobody else has. But

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Speaker 5: too often we allow adversities, disappointments, and setbacks to push

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Speaker 5: It's easy to think, why is this happening to me?

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Speaker 5: He's going to do everything he can to keep that

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Speaker 5: And life may have tried to push you down through disappointments,

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Speaker 5: most High God. I'm full of his can do power.

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Speaker 5: See Paul told Timothy to stir up the gift. You've

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Speaker 5: got to stir up your gifts, stir up your talents,

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Speaker 5: These gifts and talents and dreams, they are pressed down

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Speaker 5: Forty three to nineteen. Behold, I am doing a new thing.

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Speaker 5: Now it springs forth. Can you not perceive it? You

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Speaker 5: He wants to give you a new beginning. Don't give

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Speaker 5: up on your dreams. Don't go around thinking that you've peaked,

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Speaker 5: you've reached your limits in life. Well, Joel, you don't

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Speaker 5: know my situation. I've gone as far as my education.

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Speaker 5: any of that, but I do know our God, and

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Speaker 5: he is an all powerful god. He has more in

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Speaker 5: If your thinking is limited, then your life is going

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Speaker 5: to be limited. Well, you said, Joel, I've gone through bankruptcy.

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Speaker 5: Give you this new beginning. He still has a great

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Speaker 5: plan for your life. But you know when that's going

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Speaker 5: to happen. Whenever you quit looking back, whenever you quit

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Speaker 5: grieving over what you've lost, there's nothing that will keep

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Speaker 5: in the past. Years ago, I went into a government

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Speaker 3: To let them totally close before the next set of

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Speaker 5: And really it's the same way in life. You have

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Speaker 5: And I believe that if you will have the right attitude,

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Speaker 5: seem like those dreams have died, but God can resurrect

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Speaker 5: you feel like that life has kind of knocked you

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Speaker 3: That's yourself all.

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Speaker 5: If you can't find anybody to encourage you, you've got

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Speaker 5: See, you've got to keep yourself stirred up if you're

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Speaker 5: I don't like my job, but it's good enough. My

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Speaker 5: believing you've got great.

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Speaker 3: Things on the inside. You were not made to be average.

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Speaker 5: You were made to excel. You were made to leave

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Speaker 5: your mark on this generation. Every day you need to say,

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Speaker 5: But understand, throughout life we will always have forces opposing

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Speaker 3: It's up to you.

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Speaker 5: And you may have gotten off to a rough start

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep pressing. I'm gonna keep believing until I

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Speaker 5: they stay in a very abusive relationship.

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Speaker 3: But friends, I don't believe that's God's best.

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Speaker 5: And as I said, I'm all for sticking together and

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Speaker 5: trying to make things work out. But understand, God did

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Speaker 5: not create you to be mistreated and abused many times.

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Speaker 5: That is just a negative cycle that just keeps getting repeated.

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Speaker 3: Your mother was in an abusive.

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Speaker 5: Relationship, and now you are, and unless you make some changes,

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Speaker 5: your daughter will be as well. Now. I've had people

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Speaker 5: tell me, Joel, I don't know why I'm drawn to

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Speaker 5: people like this. I get out of one bad relationship

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Speaker 5: and I get into another. When this twice is bad

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Speaker 5: or I know I should get out. I know it's

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Speaker 5: not good for me, but I just can't leave. I

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Speaker 5: feel kind of guilty. Now, listen, you have a responsibility

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Speaker 5: to keep yourself healthy and home.

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Speaker 3: You have a gift. God has entrusted you with his talents,

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Speaker 3: with his dreams.

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Speaker 5: It may be painful, but the best thing you could

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Speaker 5: do is get away from somebody like that. Don't allow

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Speaker 5: somebody to treat you that way. You are extremely valuable.

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Speaker 5: You are made in the image of Almighty God. When

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Speaker 5: you say, Joel, if I take a stand, do what

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Speaker 5: you're saying, set some boundaries, they may leave, they may

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Speaker 5: walk away.

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Speaker 3: Truth is, I'd be the best thing that could ever happen.

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Speaker 5: I heard somebody say there's something called the gift of goodbye.

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Speaker 5: That means when somebody like that chooses to leave, you

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Speaker 5: may not realize it, but they just did you a great,

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Speaker 5: big favor. Don't look back, keep looking forward, getting ready

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Speaker 5: for the new thing God wants to do.

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Speaker 3: In your life.

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Speaker 5: And all of us at times will have people that

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Speaker 5: leave our lives.

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Speaker 3: And they may not be bad people. It's just that

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Speaker 3: season is.

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Speaker 5: Over and we may not understand it. But God knows

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Speaker 5: what he's doing. Maybe they're holding us back, Maybe they're

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Speaker 5: keeping us from spreading our wings. Maybe they're not being

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Speaker 5: a good influence. And I found sometimes if you don't

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Speaker 5: keep things stirred up, God will stir up things for you.

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Speaker 3: When somebody leaves your life.

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Speaker 5: A relationship's over, a business partner, a friend, a neighbor,

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Speaker 5: a co worker, don't take it personally, don't get upset,

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Speaker 5: don't try to talk them into staying. Let God do

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Speaker 5: the new thing. Understand your destiny is not tied.

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Speaker 3: To the people that walk away from you. You may think, man,

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Speaker 3: I need them, Joel, They're a great friend.

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Speaker 5: I count on them. He's a great business partner. Now

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Speaker 5: you don't have to have them to fulfill your purpose.

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Speaker 5: And when God is finished with something, there's no amount

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Speaker 5: of glue that can hold it together.

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Speaker 3: You might as well let it go.

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Speaker 5: Do like David, wash your face, go out and get

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Speaker 5: ready for something new that God wants to do. You

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Speaker 5: have to keep yourself in a healthy environment, even physically.

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Speaker 5: If you tend to struggle with discouragement and depression. Don't

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Speaker 5: sit around in a dark house all day long thinking

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Speaker 5: about your problems, having a pity party. Open the windows,

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Speaker 5: let the sun shine in, put on some good praise music.

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Speaker 5: You've got to create an uplifting, positive environment. When you're

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Speaker 5: tempted to get discouraged, don't you dare go find five

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Speaker 5: other friends that are discouraged and sit around talk about

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Speaker 5: your problems. Find somebody to cheer you up, find somebody

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Speaker 5: that's happy.

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Speaker 3: Come out here in Lakewood. We'll do it.

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Speaker 5: But get around people that are going to inspire you

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Speaker 5: to rise higher. You have to be careful who you

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Speaker 5: associate with. Do you know people can steal the dream

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Speaker 5: out of your heart. I think about how many people

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Speaker 5: told us that we'd never get this facility.

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Speaker 3: Business leaders, experts, JOD don't waste your money don't waste

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Speaker 3: your time. It's not gonna happen. I could have easily

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Speaker 3: given up.

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Speaker 5: I could have thought, you know what, they're probably smarter

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Speaker 5: than me in this area, and maybe I should just

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Speaker 5: let it go. But I said, no, God, I believe

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Speaker 5: you put this in my heart, and I'm not gonna

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Speaker 5: look up fifty years from now and say, I wonder

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Speaker 5: what would have happened if I just believed. I wonder

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Speaker 5: what would have happened if I hadn't.

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Speaker 3: To let them talk me out of that.

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Speaker 5: I can't think of anything worse than coming to the

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Speaker 5: end of your life and having a bunch of regrets.

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Speaker 5: What could have happened, what might have happened, what should

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Speaker 5: have happened. I remember one consultant that we hired. Every

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Speaker 5: time we met, he told us all the reasons why

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Speaker 5: it wasn't gonna work out. He always had a negative report.

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Speaker 5: One day I got smart enough to say, you know what,

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Speaker 5: we don't.

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Speaker 3: Need him on our team. He is contaminating our environment.

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Speaker 3: He's pulling everybody down.

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Speaker 5: You've got to surround yourself with people that encourage you,

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Speaker 5: people that build you up, not a bunch of negative

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Speaker 5: critical can't do it. People and sometimes the people that

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Speaker 5: were discourage you the most are the people that are

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Speaker 5: closest to you. I think about David when he told

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Speaker 5: his older brother Eliad that he wanted to fight Goliath.

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Speaker 3: Eliab tried to put him down.

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Speaker 5: He said, David, what are you even doing out here

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Speaker 5: on the battlefield. You're supposed to be at home taking

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Speaker 5: care of our father's few sheep that he's left you with.

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Speaker 5: Tried to make him feel small. He's really saying, David,

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Speaker 5: you're never going to do anything great. He don't have

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Speaker 5: what it takes. And David had to make that choice.

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Speaker 5: Was he going to believe that lie or believe what

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Speaker 5: God put in his heart. He could have said, well,

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Speaker 5: maybe he's right.

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Speaker 3: I'm just a kid.

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Speaker 5: I don't feel too talented. Maybe I will get killed

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Speaker 5: out there. But no, David said, Eliab, I don't care

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Speaker 5: what you say about me. I know who I am,

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Speaker 5: I know what God's put on the inside of me.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to step out and fulfill my God given destiny.

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Speaker 3: He did just that.

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Speaker 5: Isn't it interesting that even Jesus had to leave his

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Speaker 5: hometown of Nazareth because the people were so filled with

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Speaker 5: unbelieving He even knew if he stayed in that negative invironment,

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Speaker 5: it would hold him back.

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Speaker 3: You may have.

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Speaker 5: Family members, cousins, aunts, uncles, relatives, brothers, sisters.

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Speaker 3: They're good people.

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Speaker 5: You love them, you treat them with respect, but you

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Speaker 5: know you cannot be around them on a daily basis.

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Speaker 5: You have to love them from a distance, because listen,

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Speaker 5: life is too short to be pulled down by negative, jealous,

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Speaker 5: cynical people. It doesn't matter how great your gift is,

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Speaker 5: doesn't matter how great that seed is. If you don't

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Speaker 5: put it in the right environment, it's not gonna take

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Speaker 5: root and grow. It's not gonna really flourish. You need

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Speaker 5: to hang around other dreamers, hang around people that are

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Speaker 5: gonna help you become all God's created you to be.

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Speaker 5: The good news today is God has already given you

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Speaker 5: everything you need to live his life of victory. He's

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Speaker 5: put the seeds of greatness on the inside.

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Speaker 3: Let me challenge you again.

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Speaker 5: Stir up your gifts, stir up your talents, stir up

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Speaker 5: those dreams.

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Speaker 3: God wants to do a new thing.

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Speaker 5: You may have been through more than your share of

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Speaker 5: unfair situations, but you've got to let the past be

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Speaker 5: the past. This is a new day. Remember God has

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Speaker 5: another seed. He can resurrect those dreams. There are good

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Speaker 5: days up ahead. Why don't you make a decision to

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Speaker 5: do like Caleb. Dig your heels in and keep pressing,

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Speaker 5: keep believing, keep stretching until you see it all come

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Speaker 5: to pass.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I know this, If.

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Speaker 5: You'll stay in the right environment and keep yourself stirred up, You're.

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Speaker 3: Going to rise higher and higher.

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Speaker 5: You're going to see your gifts and talents come to

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Speaker 5: the full and I believe you'll live that life.

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Speaker 3: Of victory that God has in store.

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Speaker 5: Amen. Or We never like to close our broadcast without

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Speaker 5: giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of

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Speaker 5: your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,

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Speaker 5: come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 3: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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