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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria.

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you.

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Speaker 2: But I like to start with something funny, and I

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Speaker 2: heard about this pastor. He'd been out bear hunting all

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Speaker 2: day long, searched and searched through the woods and could

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Speaker 2: find any sign of a bear. Finally, in frustration, he

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Speaker 1: About that time, he saw.

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Speaker 2: This huge, grizzly bear about one hundred yards away, running

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Speaker 2: to ward him full speed ahead. He fell on his

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Speaker 2: knees and said, God, please convert this bear to a Christian.

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Speaker 2: Miraculously the bear froze in his tracks, put both paws

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Speaker 2: up in the hair, and said, Lord, thank you for

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Speaker 2: this food I'm about to eat. Say it like you

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

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Speaker 2: I am. I have what it says I have. I

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

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Speaker 2: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 2: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about extra mile blessings.

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Speaker 2: There are times God asked us to do things that

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Speaker 2: are hard, things that don't make sense. To give something

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Speaker 2: to others when we need it more than them, to

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Speaker 2: take a step of faith when we don't have the experience,

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Speaker 2: or to forgive someone that doesn't deserve it. Everything in

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Speaker 2: our logic says, this is not right. That's too much,

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Speaker 2: it's not fair. God is asking you to go the

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Speaker 2: extra mile. Any time you obey, there's a blessing that follows.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to see extra mile blessings, you have

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Speaker 2: to have extra mile obedience when you do the hard.

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Speaker 1: Thing that God's asking you to do.

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Speaker 2: It's not because God's trying to make your life miserable.

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Speaker 2: It's because he has something awesome coming your way. You

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Speaker 2: can't reach the fullness of your destiny without extra mile obedience.

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Speaker 1: There are good.

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Speaker 2: Breaks increase healing that are only connected to doing the

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Speaker 2: right thing when it's hard, and it's good to obey

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Speaker 2: in the small things that's important. Be kind to a neighbor,

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Speaker 2: give to charity. A coworker is rude and you let

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Speaker 2: it go. That's not real difficult. But when you're about

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Speaker 2: see something unusual, out of the ordinary, don't be surprised

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Speaker 2: if God God ask you to do a hard thing,

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Speaker 2: to go the extra mile. Well, God, I'll keep giving

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Speaker 2: my offerings each week, but not that money I've saved

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Speaker 2: up for my dreams. I'll forgive that relative that offended

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Speaker 2: But I can't apply for that management position. You know

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Speaker 2: Elijah said, ma'am, I'm hungry too.

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Speaker 2: Loaf of bread as well. The water was easy, the

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Speaker 2: see an extra mile blessing. You'll see supernatural provision, supernatural increase.

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Speaker 2: What God asked you to do is not always going

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Speaker 2: you set miracles into motion. God begins to pour out blessings,

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Speaker 2: couldn't make happen that will thrust you into new levels

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Speaker 2: of your destiny. Are you missing the great things God

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Speaker 2: hard things? Don't talk to yourself out of it. The

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Speaker 2: wants you to know. He sees that you're struggling. He's

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Speaker 2: He wouldn't ask you to do something hard unless he

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Speaker 2: They don't deserve it, They were wrong. You're not excusing

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Speaker 2: about Joseph, betrayed by his brothers. He went through thirteen

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Speaker 2: This was Joseph's big chance to pay them back, to

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Speaker 2: That doesn't take a lot of effort. But these brothers

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Speaker 2: He lost years of his life being away from his family,

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Speaker 2: God poured out extra mile blessings. He put Joseph in

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Speaker 2: it's not fair, doesn't make sense. There's no limit to

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Speaker 2: how high God will take you. Is God asking you

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Speaker 2: You know they're a negative influence causing you to compromise. Joe,

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Speaker 2: I know it's not easy, but where could you go?

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Speaker 2: What could you become if you did the hard thing?

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Speaker 2: God wouldn't be asking you if he didn't have extra

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Speaker 2: a good attitude in a negative situation. You're working hard

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Speaker 2: be critical, complain, live sour, Do the hard thing, Keep

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Speaker 2: being your best, keep thanking God, keep being good to people,

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Speaker 2: keep declaring the victory. When you do the hard thing,

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Speaker 2: you set miracles into motion. Angels go to work, good

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Speaker 2: breaks come looking for you. In the early nineteen seventies,

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Speaker 2: he was going to take up a special offering. The

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Speaker 2: provision that never ran out. My father went from believing

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Speaker 2: for that thousand seat auditorium, to having the funds over

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Speaker 2: That's what's going to take you to the fullness of

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Speaker 2: My friends, Craig and Samantha had their third child a

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Speaker 2: heard God say to him, I'm gonna use your son

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Speaker 2: Connor to help people all over the world. Craig said, God,

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Speaker 2: Wasn't long after that that samantho walked in his room

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Speaker 2: one night, about to put him to bed. Connor had

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Speaker 2: He quoted the whole thing. He had been watching our videos.

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Speaker 2: Those were the first words that he ever spoke. They

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Speaker 2: were so thrilled. Craig was the head of our children's

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Speaker 2: any programs for children with special needs. Parents couldn't attend

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Speaker 2: through a service. He felt God telling him to start

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Speaker 2: a ministry for special needs children. He could have thought,

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Speaker 2: God is hard enough to raise our own son, our

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Speaker 2: hands are full. That doesn't make sense to take on

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Speaker 2: more challenges. God was asking him to do a hard thing,

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Speaker 2: to birth a ministry. Out of his pain, Craig and

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Speaker 2: Samantha started the Champion's Club for children with autism and

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Speaker 2: special needs. The first month, three hundred new families joined

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Speaker 2: the church. Today, there are over one hundred Champions Clubs

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Speaker 2: in churches around the world.

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Speaker 1: Craig had extra mile obedience.

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Speaker 2: What happened. He has seen extra mile blessings, just like

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Speaker 2: God said Connor's influence is impacting people all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Is God asking you to do a hard thing, something

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Speaker 2: that doesn't make sense, doesn't seem fair. If you'll take

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Speaker 2: that step, you'll see God show out in your life.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to make excuses, reason it out. It's not logical.

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Speaker 2: What if I fail? They don't deserve it. I'm not qualified.

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Speaker 2: If you could see what's on the other side of

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Speaker 2: that obedience, the joy, the favor, the victory, then you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't put it off. There are extra mile blessings waiting

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Speaker 2: for you, blessings that will thrust you ahead. The way

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Speaker 2: you release them is by having extra mile obedience. If

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Speaker 2: you'll do this, I believe and declare, like the widow,

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Speaker 2: you're going to see supernatural provision like Peter Net, breaking

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Speaker 2: blessings like my father, increase that affects your children like

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Speaker 2: Craig and Samantha.

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Speaker 1: Out of your pain.

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Speaker 2: You will see your purpose, new doors, opening dreams, coming

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Speaker 2: to past, favor that catapults you into your destiny in Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: And if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd

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Speaker 2: like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the

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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.

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

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Speaker 2: born again. We'd love to send you some free information

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Speaker 3: God has put a specific dream in your heart. Maybe

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Speaker 3: it's a dream for a better career, a blessing that

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Speaker 3: enables you to bless others, to be in a healthy,

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Speaker 3: We all have dreams, but sometimes setbacks and opposition can

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Speaker 3: rob us of our dreams. So how do you make

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Speaker 2: One way you know it's a God given dream is

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Speaker 2: you can't accomplish it on your own. We never thought

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Speaker 2: we'd be having church in a former basketball arena, but

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Speaker 2: this is what can happen when you take the limits

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Speaker 2: off of God.

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Speaker 4: When you believe what God put in your heart, that's

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Speaker 4: when He steps in and makes ways where you never

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Speaker 4: saw ways.

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Speaker 2: No, I'd love to send you my newest book, It's

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Speaker 1: It'll help you to hold on to what God promised.

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Speaker 2: And now I get discouraged by how impossible it looks

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Speaker 2: or how long it's taken. You are closer than you think.

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Speaker 2: God's working behind the scenes right now. Stay in faith.

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Speaker 2: You're going to see the greatness of God bring your

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Speaker 2: dreams to pass.

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

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Speaker 3: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and

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Speaker 3: Victoria would like to send you this dream releasing, life

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Speaker 3: affirming book, It's time to Dream Again. You might sense

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Speaker 3: you'll see that they are actually a hidden treasure just

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Speaker 3: for you is significant. His dreams for you are beyond

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Speaker 3: what you could imagine. Don't wait another day. It's time

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Speaker 4: in your heart.

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Speaker 2: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your

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Speaker 2: generosity is making a difference around the world. Remember, you

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Speaker 2: can watch the services live online every Sunday. To download

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Speaker 2: We will keep you encouraged and inspired, but until we

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Speaker 2: meet again, may the Lord bless you and keep you.

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