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Speaker 1: Hi, this is joln Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Will God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes.

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Speaker 2: We love you, and if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: please stop by and be a part of one of

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Speaker 2: our services. I promise you we'll make it feel right

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Speaker 2: at home. But thank you for tuning in and thanks

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Speaker 2: again for coming out. I'd like to start with something

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Speaker 2: funny in I heard about this man. He was at

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Speaker 2: the airline ticket counter hollering and screaming at the agent

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Speaker 2: being so rude. As he continued to rant and rave,

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Speaker 2: the agent was just as calm and polite as could be,

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Speaker 2: treated him so respectfully, like it didn't even bother her.

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Speaker 2: He left, and the next man stepped up and said, Wow,

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Speaker 2: I am so impressed.

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Speaker 1: You must be a Christian. How could you possibly be

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Speaker 1: so kind to him?

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Speaker 2: She smiled and said, oh, it wasn't that hard. See

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Speaker 2: he's going to Detroit, but his bags are going to Bangkok.

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Speaker 2: Hold your Bible up and say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I've boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about being a now person.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to put things off.

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Speaker 2: We plan on doing it. We have good intentions. We're

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Speaker 2: just going to do it later. One day, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to start exercising. One day, I'm going to get my

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Speaker 2: finances in order. One day I'm going to forgive that

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Speaker 2: person that hurt me. The problem with this kind of

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Speaker 2: thinking is one day never comes.

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Speaker 1: There will always be some reason not to do it.

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Speaker 2: How many people know doubt in their heart things they

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Speaker 2: need to change. God's been dealing with them for months,

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Speaker 2: maybe even years, but they keep making excuses.

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Speaker 1: Soon as I get through this busy season, then I'll

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Speaker 1: spend more time with my family.

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Speaker 2: Soon as the price of gas goes down, then I'll

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Speaker 2: start tithing my income. Soon as my child gets out

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Speaker 2: of diapers. Then I'm gonna get my family back. In church,

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Speaker 2: they try to justify it, knowing that they're planning to

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Speaker 2: do it, But good intentions don't equal obedience. The quicker

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Speaker 2: you do what you feel down in your spirit, the

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Speaker 2: happier you're going to be. The reason some people go

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Speaker 2: around with this heaviness is they've got so much unfinished business.

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Speaker 2: They know they need to forgive, they know they need

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Speaker 2: to treat someone better, but they just keep putting it off.

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Speaker 2: The longer we put it off, the more difficult it's

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Speaker 2: going to become. I heard a poet procrastination is my weakness.

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Speaker 2: It only brings me sorrow. I know I should give

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Speaker 2: it up. In fact I will tomorrow. Friends, Tomorrow never comes.

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Speaker 2: It's always out in the future when God brings.

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Speaker 1: Something to light.

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Speaker 2: If you'll deal with it right at the first, you'll

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Speaker 2: have a special grace. You'll feel God's enabling power helping

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Speaker 2: you to do it. God will never ask you to

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Speaker 2: do something and then not give you the ability to

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Speaker 2: do it. But when we're passive, we think, yes, I

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Speaker 2: know I need to do it. Maybe next week. Next

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Speaker 2: week turns into next month, next month turns into next year.

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Speaker 1: What happens is we miss that season of grace.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you, is there something you're putting off?

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Speaker 2: You know you should take that class to improve your skills,

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Speaker 2: should get up a little earlier to have that quiet time,

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Speaker 2: but you haven't got around to it. This is a

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Speaker 2: call to action. Your destiny stands before you. God has

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Speaker 2: something amazing in your future. But it says in Proverbs

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Speaker 2: complacency kills, being passive will keep you from God's best.

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Speaker 2: And many times it's not big things that hold us back,

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Speaker 2: it's small things. You haven't balanced your checkbook in two years.

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Speaker 2: Every time you go to write a check, you feel guilty.

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Speaker 1: Don't put it off.

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Speaker 2: If you're not faithful with what you have, God won't

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Speaker 2: entrust you with more. One lady told me how she

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Speaker 1: At least she took action.

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Speaker 2: I have people tell me, Joel, I'm gonna start giving.

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Speaker 1: Now, don't wait until you have one.

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Speaker 2: Little things you drive home, you see that garage you've

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Speaker 2: been meaning to clean for six months. Every time you

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Speaker 2: look out there, it depresses you. Don't go another day

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Speaker 2: like that. Put your foot down, Like Larry the Cable

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Speaker 2: Guy says, get or done, do something about it. It's

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Speaker 2: amazing how much more we'll enjoy life if we don't

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Speaker 2: Knew a man at the gym years ago, and he

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Speaker 1: I knew, deep down I was supposed to help him.

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Speaker 2: I felt it so strongly, something saying, Joel, give him

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Speaker 2: a gift now. I had good intentions. God knew my heart,

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Speaker 2: but I kept putting it off. The first week I

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Speaker 2: Next month, still hadn't done anything. Every time I saw him,

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Speaker 2: I felt a gnawing feeling right down in here. One

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Speaker 2: I felt the heaviness lease offer me. See, God doesn't

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Speaker 2: reward good intentions.

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Speaker 1: He rewards obedience.

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Speaker 2: So often we think, like I did, I'm planning on

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Speaker 1: We need to move from planning to doing.

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Speaker 2: It's talking to a lady recently there's this person at

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Speaker 2: going on for years. She's allowed this to happen. It's

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Speaker 2: on year after year living in mediocrity. When God asks

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Speaker 2: number two, it's because He has something so much better

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Speaker 2: back to you. I know people that had been planning

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Speaker 2: to make peace with the relative for twenty years. One day,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to reconcile. One day, Joel, I'm gonna swallow

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Speaker 2: the opportunities that God didn't release back because they kept

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Speaker 2: putting it off. I was reading about this forty two

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Speaker 2: He found out there was an alcoholic that lived in

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Speaker 2: end of the interview, he kind of laughed and said,

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Speaker 2: I found out something you may not know. There was

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Speaker 2: same age, your same race. What a coincidence, This executive said,

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Speaker 1: That was me.

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Speaker 2: I was an alcoholic. I was homeless doing nothing with

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Speaker 2: my life. The reporter's eyes got so big, said tell

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Speaker 2: knew one day I would be successful. I knew one

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Speaker 1: Many people are like him. They may not be homeless, may.

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Speaker 2: Not have a big addition, but they're waiting to get started.

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Speaker 2: They have incredible gifts, talents, businesses, ideas, movies, books, inventions,

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Speaker 2: but they keep putting off moving forward, thinking one day,

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Speaker 2: I'll go back to school. Now, don't live waiting for

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Speaker 2: life is short. Time is flying by. You can't afford

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Speaker 2: don't have time to live with things holding you back.

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Speaker 2: You have seeds of greatness on the inside. Today can

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Speaker 2: we have to be now people, because there are some

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Speaker 2: opportunities that God brings across our path that have a

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Speaker 2: The prophet Joel set in the scripture to wake up

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Speaker 2: right now now. Of faith. You are history makers. You

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Speaker 2: mark on this generation. But there is an enemy of

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Speaker 1: Course, he'll use something much more subtle.

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Speaker 2: He'll try to get you to put it off, to

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Speaker 2: be passive, to have an i'll do it later attitude. No,

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Speaker 2: the scripture says, today, when you hear God's voice, do

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Speaker 2: not turn away. When you hear God speaking to you,

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Speaker 2: be a now person.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to respond today, I'm going to make changes. Today,

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Speaker 2: is what triggers God's supernatural favor. This is what happened

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Speaker 2: to a young lady in the scripture named Esther.

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Speaker 1: She was an orphan.

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Speaker 2: She didn't necessarily feel qualified, but her cousin more I said, Esther,

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Speaker 1: He was saying, Esther, this is a.

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Speaker 2: Window of opportunity to make your mark on this generation.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't something that she could.

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Speaker 2: Decide to do five years from now, after she got

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Speaker 1: This was a destiny moment.

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Speaker 2: She was supposed to stand before the king and ask

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Speaker 2: him to save the people of Israel. Mordecai said something

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Speaker 2: interesting Esther. If you don't do it, it will still happen.

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Speaker 2: God's plan will come to pass, but you will miss

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Speaker 2: your opportunity to be a part of it. See, when

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Speaker 2: stopping the fullness of what God has in store for us.

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Speaker 2: to die without keeping my promise. Have you made a

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Speaker 2: promise to God, a promise to your parents, or maybe

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Speaker 2: you promised yourself. I'm not going to live with this bitterness.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to go around with this anger. Make

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Speaker 2: good on your promise. Maybe you promised yourself. I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to get stuck at this job and settle here

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Speaker 2: when I've got so much more in me.

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Speaker 1: Keep your promise. Maybe you promised yourself.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to hang around these people that are

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Speaker 2: dragging me down my whole life. Has it been a year,

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Speaker 2: five years, twenty years?

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Speaker 1: What are you waiting for? You owe it to yourselves.

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Speaker 2: When the people of Israel were in slavery, God sent

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Speaker 2: different plgs on their enemies to try to convince them

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Speaker 2: to let them go. Pharah was very stubborn, very hardheaded.

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Speaker 2: He wouldn't do it. One of the pleegus was the

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Speaker 2: land was filled with millions of frogs everywhere they look.

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Speaker 1: Frogs in their home, frogs in their bed, frogs in

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Speaker 2: They couldn't walk without stepping on a frog. They got

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Speaker 2: so miserable. Farroh finally called Moses back in, said Moses, hey,

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Speaker 2: we've learned our lesson. Please ask you God to take

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Speaker 2: away these frogs. Moses said, I'll do it. Pharaoh, you

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Speaker 2: set the time. When do you want it to happen?

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Speaker 2: You would think he would say right now, immediately at

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Speaker 2: this moment, no Pharaoh said take them away tomorrow. He

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Speaker 2: was saying, we can put up with these frogs just

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Speaker 2: one more night. How many times do we do the

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Speaker 2: same thing, Joel, I'm going to forgive, but I'm going

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Speaker 2: to do it tomorrow. I'm gonna have a better attitude.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna quit worrying tomorrow. We're saying, like Faarah, I

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Speaker 2: can put up with this addiction, with this worry, with

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Speaker 2: this mediocrity, twenty four more hours. Now our attitude should

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Speaker 2: be I'm not gonna spend one more night with the frogs,

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Speaker 2: putting up with things that are not God's best. Today,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get my life straightened out today. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: forgive today, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 1: Stop worrying today. I'm gonna take a step of faith.

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Speaker 2: Friends, Your time is too valuable, your destiny too great,

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Speaker 2: your future too bright to waste a single moment. You

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Speaker 2: gotta shake off the passive, shake off being complacent, rise

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Speaker 2: up with this new boldness. My prayer is we're gonna

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Speaker 2: be like Joshua and Caleb. Not put it off people,

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Speaker 2: but let us go in at once, people.

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Speaker 1: Like the lady with the issue of blood.

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Speaker 2: We're not gonna miss our season. We're gonna be people

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Speaker 2: of action. Here's my assignment. Think of at least one

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Speaker 2: area that you've been procrastinating in your health, your finances,

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Speaker 2: or relationship, not.

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Speaker 1: Taking a step of faith.

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Speaker 2: Make a decision that you're going to start working on

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Speaker 2: it today. You don't have time to wait another year

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Speaker 2: to forgive, to get back in shade.

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Speaker 1: To pursue a dream. This is your high time.

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Speaker 2: You are close to seeing that promise come to pass.

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Speaker 2: If you will be a now person and be quick

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Speaker 2: to do what God's asking you to do, then I

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Speaker 2: believe in declare healing is coming, promotion is coming, favor

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Speaker 2: is coming, breakthroughs are coming. You're gonna live the abundant

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Speaker 2: life that God has in store.

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Speaker 1: If you receive it. Can you say amen? This morning.

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 2: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 2: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep

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Speaker 2: God first place. He's going to take your places that

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Speaker 2: you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year. Time to see the impossible become possible.

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Speaker 1: It's a new year.

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Speaker 3: Life setbacks are about to become God's setups for new opportunity.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year cherished dreams will become unexpected reality.

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Speaker 2: The start of the new year is the perfect time

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Speaker 2: to reset your focus, release disappointments of the past, and

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Speaker 2: get ready for the new things God has in store.

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Speaker 2: Every January we create a new three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: five day devotional calendar.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to send it to you. Each day is filled.

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Speaker 2: With inspiration, scripture, and uplifting declarations to fuel your faith.

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Speaker 1: When you begin the day thanking God for what He's done, speaking.

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Speaker 2: Victory over your future, you're positioning yourself for a blessed,

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Speaker 2: favor filled year. Amazing things happen when you keep God

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Speaker 2: first place.

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: you'll not only smile at your day, you'll be reminded

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Speaker 3: that God is smiling on your entire life. Each day

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Speaker 3: wake up with an expectancy in your heart. Two reflect

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Speaker 3: on the daily scripture verse and devotional from Joel. Three

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty six is going to be one of your

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Speaker 2: best years ever. We're going to help you stay in

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Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the.

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Speaker 3: Also, no matter what season you're in, joy, sorrow, waiting, growth,

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Speaker 3: God wants to speak into each and every moment. God's

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Speaker 3: word for every season is a guided journal series designed

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Speaker 3: on its truth, one verse at a time. As you

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