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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your line. God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: great to be with you today, and I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast,

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Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit

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Speaker 1: us in person. We'd love to have you be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I'd like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny and I heard about this reporter. He

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Speaker 1: was visiting different churches across the nation. While in the Northeast,

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Speaker 1: he saw a gold phone on the wall with a

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Speaker 1: sign that said calls ten thousand dollars per minute. He

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Speaker 1: has the pastor what it meant. The pastor explained that

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Speaker 1: was a direct line to Heaven. If you were willing

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Speaker 1: to pay the price, you could talk directly to God.

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Speaker 1: He continued visiting different churches, seeing the same gold phone

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Speaker 1: the same sign. Well, he finally made it to Texas.

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Speaker 1: He saw the phone, but the signs had calls twenty

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Speaker 1: five cents per minute in treu Esk the pastor why

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Speaker 1: it was so much cheaper. The pastor said, you're in

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Speaker 1: Texas now, it's a local call.

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Speaker 2: All right, y'all say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 2: 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 boldly confess. My mind

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

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

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about pre plan

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Speaker 1: for purpose. It's easy to think that we have to

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Speaker 1: make everything happen, make our dream come to pass, and

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Speaker 1: make this door open, make this person like me. This

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Speaker 1: can be stressful and discouraging because there are things that

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Speaker 1: we can't make happen. We've gone as far as we can,

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Speaker 1: facing obstacles that are too big feels like we've reached

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Speaker 1: our limits. The good news is you're not doing life

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Speaker 1: on your own. It's not just up to you. There's

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Speaker 1: something happening that you can't see. Paul said in Ephesians.

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Speaker 1: We are created to do good works which God has

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Speaker 1: planned before time, Taking past that He prepared ahead of time,

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Speaker 1: that we should live the good life which he prearranged

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Speaker 1: and made ready for us to live. God has already

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Speaker 1: pre arranged a good life for you. He's already planned

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Speaker 1: out your days. He's lined up the right people, the

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Speaker 1: right breaks, solutions to problems. He's put in you the gifts,

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Speaker 1: the talents, the potential so you can live this good life.

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Speaker 1: When you realize the creator of the universe has a

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Speaker 1: prearranged plan, that he's already figured it all out, that

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Speaker 1: you're not at the mercy of faith, happenstance, coincidence, hope

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Speaker 1: this works out. I hope I meet the right person.

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Speaker 1: I hope I'll fulfill my purpose. No, you can be

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Speaker 1: confident God is ordering your steps. You can live in

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Speaker 1: peace knowing it's not just up to you to make

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Speaker 1: it all happen. God has gone ahead of you. He's

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Speaker 1: planned things out before you got here. Now our part

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Speaker 1: is to honor God keep in first place, and you'll

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Speaker 1: walk into that prearranged good life that He's already planned.

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Speaker 1: And this doesn't mean we won't have difficulties. Things come

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Speaker 1: against us, people that are not fair. It means that

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Speaker 1: God has already taken that into account. When he preplanned

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Speaker 1: your life. He arranged to come back for every setback,

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Speaker 1: a solution to every problem, mercy for every mistake, a

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Speaker 1: new beginning for every loss. When Jesus was betrayed, Acts

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Speaker 1: Chapter two says God knew this would happen, and his

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Speaker 1: pre arranged plan was carried out. When Jesus was betrayed,

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Speaker 1: God knew Judas was going to turn on him. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't a surprise. He had already pre arranged that as

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Speaker 1: a part of his plan to bring salvation. Your setbacks, disappointments, betrayals,

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Speaker 1: they don't catch God off guard. He wouldn't have allowed

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Speaker 1: it if it was going to stop your purpose. It

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Speaker 1: may not have been fair. But God has the final say.

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Speaker 1: He's already pre arranged how he's going to turn that

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Speaker 1: for your good. See God's been thinking about you long

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Speaker 1: before you ever showed up on planet Earth. You're not

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Speaker 1: just a product of your parents they decided to have

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Speaker 1: mother's womb. You may have come through your mother, but

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Speaker 1: you came from Almighty God. David said in Some one

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Speaker 1: thirty nine, God, you knew my unformed substance All my

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Speaker 1: days that you have ordained for me were written in

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Speaker 1: your book before I was ever born. Before you got here,

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Speaker 1: God already decided your purpose. He already planned out your days,

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Speaker 1: already put in you everything you need to fulfill his plan.

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Speaker 1: There are gifts and talents in you right now that

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Speaker 1: you haven't tapped into. Potential, this lying dormant, but at

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Speaker 1: the appointed time it will come to life. Like in

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Speaker 1: the natural, a gene can lie dormant in our body

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Speaker 1: for years. It's been preprogrammed by genetics, by who your

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Speaker 1: parents and relatives are. I've seen people when they're young,

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Speaker 1: they have a full head of hair, but when they

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Speaker 1: hit forty, there's nothing there. What was that a gene

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Speaker 1: lying dormant? It was there but not activated. When the

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Speaker 1: time came, it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: We pray against those genes in the same way. There

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Speaker 1: are gifts God put in you that you can't see

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Speaker 1: right now, talent, potential, ability that you need for your purpose.

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Speaker 1: When the right time comes, you're going to discover ability

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Speaker 1: that you never knew you had. For thirty five years,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a pastor in me. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know I could get up here and speak. My

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Speaker 1: father asked me to help him pastor for seventeen years.

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Speaker 1: All that time I was behind the scenes. Joel, why

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Speaker 1: don't you speak for me this Sunday? You would be

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Speaker 1: a good pastor. I thought, there's not a chance in

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Speaker 1: the world. I wouldn't know what to say. I'm more

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Speaker 1: quiet and reserved. I don't have a big personality to

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Speaker 1: be out in front of people. But when my father passed,

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Speaker 1: suddenly I had the desire to get up and speak.

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Speaker 1: I felt a boldness, a confidence I can do mentality.

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Speaker 1: And yes, those limiting thoughts still came, but they didn't

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Speaker 1: phaze me. I thought, I can do this. I am

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Speaker 1: well able. That wasn't me getting my courage up, being determined.

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Speaker 1: That was something God put in me before I was born,

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Speaker 1: a gene so to speak, that he preprogrammed to open

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Speaker 1: at a certain time. You don't know what God has

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Speaker 1: put in you. You don't know what's going to open up.

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Speaker 1: The talent, the ability, the confidence. What He has already

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Speaker 1: planned in your future is bigger, better, more rewarding that

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Speaker 1: you can imagine. When you understand this, you want live, striving, straining, worried,

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Speaker 1: how's it going to work out what if I don't

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Speaker 1: meet the right people. You'll live from a place of peace,

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Speaker 1: a place of rest, your confident that your creator has

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Speaker 1: planned out your days for good, that he put in

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Speaker 1: you what you need for your purpose, that He's lined

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Speaker 1: up the right people, the right breaks, the solutions. It's

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Speaker 1: all been pre arranged. Your job is to keep being faithful,

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Speaker 1: keep living with excellence and integrity. You're going to walk

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Speaker 1: in to the good plan that's already been prepared for you.

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Speaker 1: I'm still amazed that I'm able to do this. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: Sunday nights, I'm flipping through the channels and I see

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Speaker 1: myself on television. Now, I think, who is that man?

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Speaker 1: How did this happen? It was all a part of

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Speaker 1: what God already prepared for me. God's not making it

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Speaker 1: up as he goes. Oh man, Joel's father died. Need

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Speaker 1: somebody to pass to the church. Maybe Joel can do it. No,

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Speaker 1: before you were born, God planned at all your days.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says, God put treasure in earthen vessels. We

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Speaker 1: can feel ordinary thoughts tell us where average, nothing special.

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Speaker 1: But God loves to use ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

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Speaker 1: I'm an earthen vessel. You're an earth and vessel. Don't

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Speaker 1: let that fool you. There is treasure in you. God

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Speaker 1: put greatness on the inside, value, honor, influence, things that

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Speaker 1: have not yet all come out, Things that He has

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Speaker 1: pre planned that will cause you to bloom, to blossom,

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Speaker 1: to go further than you ever dreamed. When God needed

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Speaker 1: a young woman to bring Jesus, the Messiah to the earth,

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Speaker 1: someone that would give birth to the Savior, he could

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Speaker 1: have chosen royalty, a king's daughter, someone that came from wealth, prestige, influence. Instead,

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Speaker 1: he put his greatest treasure, his only son, in a

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Speaker 1: girl that was from a low income family, pour overlooked,

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Speaker 1: not regarded as much. God loves to put treasure in

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Speaker 1: earthen vessels. Don't discount yourself because you feel like you

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Speaker 1: had a disadvantage. You have flaws, weaknesses, You've made some mistakes.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. Your heart is tender toward God. You're an

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Speaker 1: earth investor. That's who God uses. Or maybe you think

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Speaker 1: you're not as talented as son, not as beautiful, not

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Speaker 1: as outgoing. None of that stops our God. He's put

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Speaker 1: stand out to leave your mark, to make the world

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Speaker 1: a better place. David was a teenager out in the

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Speaker 1: anything significant. You're stuck out here. Somehow, I believe David

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Speaker 1: understood this principle, that God put things in him that

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Speaker 1: he couldn't see. One day, the prophet Samuel showed up

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Speaker 1: When Samuel saw Eliab, the oldest, he thought for sure

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Speaker 1: God does choose the way we choose. He passed over

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Speaker 1: all seven. Finally asked Jesse, is there another son? Jesse said, yes,

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Speaker 1: my son David is out in the fields. But I'm

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Speaker 1: sure it's not him. He's small, young, not experienced. He

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Speaker 1: treasure in people that seem unlikely at a disadvantage. When

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Speaker 1: He heard Goliath taunting the people of Israel. Something rose

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Speaker 1: up in David. He told King Saul, I will defeat

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Speaker 1: other soldiers heard Goliath, they ran in hid. How could

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Speaker 1: at the appointed time, it came alive. David went out,

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Speaker 1: He couldn't see it. But there was treasure in this teenager.

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Speaker 1: There was greatness in this earthen vessel. This was all

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Speaker 1: a part of what God had pre planned for David.

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Speaker 1: God had already pre arranged him to be a giant killer.

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Speaker 1: He had already put in him the talent, the confidence,

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Speaker 1: the skill to bring down Goliath. There are giants in

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Speaker 1: There are dreams that look impossible, that God has already

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Speaker 1: empowered you to accomplish. When you look at what you're

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Speaker 1: up against, it can seem a sickness, financial issue, struggling

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Speaker 1: with an addiction. Like David, that potential there's been lying

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Speaker 1: You're going to feel a supernatural strength, a supernatural power,

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Speaker 1: God breathing in your direction. He's already pre planned your victory.

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Speaker 1: He's already put treasure in your earth and vessel. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you may seem ordinary, The truth is you are extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: You may look small, but the most high God is

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Speaker 1: on your side. Goliath had a sword and a shield,

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Speaker 1: but your slingshot, with the favor of God, will bring

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Speaker 1: down the giant. My father was raised very poor. His

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