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Speaker 4: Thanks for tuning in, and thank you again for coming out.

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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 4: about this husband and wife. They'd been arguing for a

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Speaker 4: The husband thought it was the wife's job, but she

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Speaker 4: just didn't agree. After several heated debates, she finally said

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Speaker 4: to her husband, I can prove to you from the

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Speaker 4: Bible that it's the man's job to make the coffee.

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Speaker 4: He said, what are you talking about. I just nothing

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Speaker 4: in the Bible about the man making the coffee. She said, sure,

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Speaker 4: there is. She opened her Bible and pointed to the

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Speaker 4: Book of Hebrews. Hold up your Bible. Say it like

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Speaker 4: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 4: it says. I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 4: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 4: I will be taught word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 4: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 4: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about living large.

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Speaker 4: We weren't created to live a small life with little goals,

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Speaker 4: little dreams, little influence. God created us to live an

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Speaker 4: supposed to get stuck and stay there. God is a

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Speaker 4: god of increase. He has something bigger in your future,

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Speaker 4: and if you're going to live this large life, it

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Speaker 4: starts in our thinking. Jesus said, you can't put new

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Speaker 4: wine into old wine skins. Wine skins were made out

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Speaker 4: old thinking. You can't go around thinking you've reached your limits.

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Speaker 4: Start thinking bigger, believing bigger, expecting bigger. You are full

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Speaker 4: battles that we all face is the battle of containment.

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Speaker 4: The enemy can't do anything about the grounds you've already gained.

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Speaker 4: His goal is to convince you to settle where you are.

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Speaker 4: He'll tell us things like you'll never be able to

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Speaker 4: afford that house you really want. Just accept it. You'll

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Speaker 4: never get well. You saw the medical report, or you'll

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Speaker 4: never meet the right person. It's been too long. This

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Speaker 4: He wouldn't be fighting you so hard unless he knew.

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Speaker 4: God had something amazing in your future. You may not

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Speaker 4: see how it can happen, but one touch of God's

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Speaker 4: in Second Corinthian six, I want you to enter into

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Speaker 4: this wide open, spacious life. The smallness you feel comes

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Speaker 4: from within. Your lives are not small, but you're living

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Speaker 4: we live a wide open, spacious life. But even though

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Speaker 4: God has this big life planned out, if we have

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Speaker 4: not seen your best days. God has a wide life

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Speaker 4: don't get stuck and stay there. May feel big to you,

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Speaker 4: you're blessed, you're content, But in God's eyes, it's a

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Speaker 4: small place. He has new horizons for you to explore,

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Speaker 4: this way. The path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter.

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Speaker 4: God's idea is that our lives get bigger and bigger,

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Speaker 4: more influence, more opportunity, more resources. You may feel stuck,

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Speaker 4: you haven't seen this happen, But this is a new day.

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Speaker 4: Things are about to turn in your favor. If you'll

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Speaker 4: get your hopes up, start expecting God's goodness, You're going

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Speaker 4: to come into a bigger life, to a new level

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Speaker 4: of your destiny. See for years, I thought I was

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Speaker 4: I thought was big was not big at all. God's

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Speaker 4: idea of living large is much different than ours. You

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Speaker 4: may have seen God's blessings in the past. You need

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Speaker 4: to get ready. You haven't seen anything yet where God

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Speaker 4: is going to take you. The doors he's going to open,

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Speaker 4: the people you're going to meet, the promotion, the good breaks,

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Speaker 4: the influence is going to supersede anything you've imagined. God's

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Speaker 4: prepared a wide, spacious life for you. Now. My challenge is,

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Speaker 4: don't live with a small mentality. Don't water down your

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Speaker 4: dreams accepting less when you know God has created you

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Speaker 4: for more. Well, you said, Joel, I'm doing okay, can't complain.

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Speaker 4: making it, and that's good. We should be grateful, we

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Speaker 4: if we live in mediocrity long enough, it can become

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Speaker 4: a limited environment right now, perhaps you can't do anything

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Speaker 4: You are a child of the Most High God, the

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Speaker 4: Let these words sink down into your spirit, a wide open,

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Speaker 4: want you to live a big life, an abundant, fulfilled

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Speaker 4: that he had written down he wanted to be on television.

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Speaker 4: His father said, Stevie, put this in your top drawer.

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Speaker 4: Every morning before you go to school. Every night, before

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Speaker 4: be on television. He did that, year after year after year. Today,

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Speaker 4: many years later, my friend Steve Harvey is on television

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Speaker 4: Who told you you can't do something great, Who told

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Speaker 4: gone around thinking about them, that would have kept him

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Speaker 4: from God's best. If you're going to live a large life,

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Speaker 4: Delete that you're an A student. You'll never get out

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Speaker 4: You can't accomplish your dreams. Delete that you can do

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Speaker 4: all things through Christ. You're not talented, you're not attractive,

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Speaker 4: Delete that you are fearfully and wonderfully made friends. People

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Speaker 4: don't have the final say. God does, and he says,

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Speaker 4: I've prepared for you a wide open, spacious life. Now

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Speaker 4: take you where you've never been. He wants to show

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Speaker 4: you something that you've never seen. If you will start

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Speaker 4: new doors begin to open, New talent come out of you,

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Speaker 4: new friendships, new opportunities, a new level of your destiny

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