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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny each week, and

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Speaker 5: I heard about this reporter. He was visiting churches all

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Speaker 5: across the nation. While in New York, he noticed this

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Speaker 5: what it meant, and the pastor explained how that.

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Speaker 3: Was a direct line to Heaven.

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Speaker 5: If you were willing to pay the price, you could

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Speaker 5: talk directly to God. The reporter continued visiting other churches

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Speaker 5: he encountered the same golden phone with the same sign.

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Speaker 5: When he finally made it down to Texas, he saw

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Speaker 3: Intrigued, he asked the pastor why it was so much cheaper.

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Speaker 5: The pastor said, you're in Texas now, it's a local call,

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Speaker 3: Caught up your bibles say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 3: This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says, I am, I have what

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Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about having a

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Speaker 5: you have to have a made up mind that no

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Speaker 5: They know how to persevere. When they fail, they don't

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Speaker 5: Disappointments, setbacks, unfair situations, too many people just give up

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Speaker 5: If you're going to experience God's best, you have to

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Speaker 5: You have to have a warrior mentality, no matter how

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Speaker 5: The enemy did his best, but his best.

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Speaker 5: I know I am a victor and not a victim.

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Speaker 5: David said in Psalm fifty one, verse ten, God renew

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Speaker 3: Armed with strength for every battle.

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Speaker 5: I know the forces that are for me are greater

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Speaker 3: That's a right spirit.

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Speaker 5: But some of you today, you've allowed your circumstances to

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Speaker 5: it's never gonna change. Now you're tempted to give up

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Speaker 3: I've got a made up mind.

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Speaker 5: There's got to be a relentlessness on the inside that says,

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Speaker 5: you say, Joel, I don't understand why this has happened

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Speaker 3: It may have knocked me down, but it didn't knock

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Speaker 5: Going and going and going. I have a friend that's

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Speaker 5: see what God's going to do next. What is that

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Speaker 5: a right spirit? He was knocked down, but he wasn't

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Speaker 5: knocked out. He knew when one door closes, God's going

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Speaker 5: to open up another door. He wasn't focused on what

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Speaker 5: he was going through. He was focused on where God

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Speaker 5: was taking him to. He knew a new season was

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Speaker 5: coming his way. That's the kind of people God's looking for,

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Speaker 5: people that have a never say diet attitude. I heard

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Speaker 5: a story about these two little frogs that fell into

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Speaker 5: a big bowl of cream, and the sides were so

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Speaker 5: slick that the frogs couldn't climb up out of it.

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Speaker 5: They had to paddle and paddle just to stay alive.

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Speaker 5: And this went on and on. That first little frog

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Speaker 5: did everything possible to try to get out, but every

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Speaker 5: time he got to the top of the bowl it

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Speaker 5: was too slick. He lost his grip and it would

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Speaker 5: fall back. After trying it hundreds and hundreds of times,

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Speaker 5: he finally said to the.

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Speaker 3: Other frog, we're doomed. We're never going to get out.

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Speaker 5: We're just wasting our time and energy paddling around.

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Speaker 3: We might as well give up. He gave up, went under.

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Speaker 3: You didn't see anything more of him.

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Speaker 5: The second frog he tried as well everything he could

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Speaker 5: to get out, but he too kept losing his grip

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Speaker 5: and falling back. But this second frog was different. He'd

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Speaker 5: been coming to Lakewood.

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Speaker 3: This frog had a never say die attitude.

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Speaker 5: He thought, I am not going to quit, I am

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Speaker 5: not going to give up. I'm going to keep paddling

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Speaker 5: as long as I possibly could. And he just kept

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Speaker 5: paddling and paddling thirty minutes, forty five minutes an hour.

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Speaker 3: That cream got harder and harder.

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Speaker 5: Made it more and more difficult, but he just kept

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Speaker 5: going and going and going. Two or three hours later,

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Speaker 5: he had paddled so much he had stirred that cream,

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Speaker 5: and the cream finally turned into butter. It got hard

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Speaker 5: enough for what he could just step on top. Eventually

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Speaker 5: he hopped out of it. That's what we have to

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Speaker 5: do in life. When it gets difficult, you don't see

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Speaker 5: any way out, looks like you'll never get well, never

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Speaker 5: get out of debt. Your thoughts will tell you it's over.

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Speaker 5: Just give up wasting your time. You've had cancer for

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Speaker 5: three times now.

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Speaker 3: Just accept it. Your marriage is never gonna work out.

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Speaker 3: It's too hard.

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Speaker 5: No, the harder it gets, the closer you are to

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Speaker 5: stepping out.

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Speaker 3: And if you will, just keep on keeping on moving.

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Speaker 5: Forward, living with faith and expectancy, being your best each day.

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Speaker 5: Then like that little frog, one day, what should have

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Speaker 5: destroyed you will be the very thing that helps you

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Speaker 5: rise to a new level. Now understand, the greater your challenge,

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Speaker 5: the greater your future. If you have a big obstacle today,

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Speaker 5: that just tells me you've got a big future. Keep

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Speaker 5: pressing forward, be relentless, have a never say die attitude.

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Speaker 5: Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to ever climb

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Speaker 5: to the top of Mount Everest, but he didn't make

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Speaker 5: it on his first attempt. He had tried once before

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Speaker 5: and not only failed, but he lost one of his men.

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Speaker 5: One of his team members was killed. And after this

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Speaker 5: failed expedition, he was in London talking with a group

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Speaker 5: of reporters. There was a big picture of Mount Everest

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Speaker 5: right beside it. He turned and looked at it and said,

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Speaker 5: Mount Everest, you have defeated me, but I will return

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Speaker 5: and defeat you because you can't get any bigger, but

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Speaker 5: I can. You may be facing obstacles today that look huge.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you too have tried and failed. I can't promise

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Speaker 5: you that the obstacle will get any smaller, but I

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Speaker 5: can promise you can get bigger. You have the power

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Speaker 5: of the Most High God on the inside of you

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Speaker 5: right now. Don't be weak, wimpy, spineless. Our attitude should be.

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Speaker 5: This thing may have defeated me before, but it is

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Speaker 5: not going to defeat me again. I know who I am,

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Speaker 5: a child of the Most High God. I am anointed,

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Speaker 5: equipped in power. I can do all things through Christ.

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Speaker 3: This adversity is no match for me now.

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Speaker 5: I believe, even right now, God is breathing new life

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Speaker 5: into your space. Your strength is increasing, your vision is enlarging.

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Speaker 5: You are strong, determined, well, able not only to outlast

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Speaker 5: every adversity, but to overcome it. You may have tried

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Speaker 5: and failed before, but God is saying go again. This

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Speaker 5: time is going to be different. No, the obstacle didn't

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Speaker 5: get smaller, you got bigger. God enlarged you.

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Speaker 3: He increased you.

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Speaker 5: You've got more faith, more confidence, more determination. My prayer

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Speaker 5: is that you'll go out of here today with a

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Speaker 5: greater resolve, with a new fire on the inside, determined

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Speaker 5: that you're going to become everything God's created you to be.

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Speaker 5: When you face difficulties, don't focus on what you're going through.

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Speaker 5: Focus on what you're going to get ready for a

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Speaker 5: double dose of God's favor.

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Speaker 3: Now I know some of you.

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Speaker 5: Right now, there are things in your life that you

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Speaker 5: could easily give up on. A marriage, a dream, your health,

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Speaker 5: your finances. There's no growth. It looks dead, no life,

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Speaker 5: no victory. But remember, just like my tree, it's not

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Speaker 5: really dead.

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Speaker 3: It's just not in season.

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Speaker 5: And if you will keep pressing forward with a made

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Speaker 5: up mind, a never say die attitude, the good news

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Speaker 5: is your new season is on its way.

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Speaker 3: I want to declare this over each one of you.

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Speaker 5: You are coming in to a new season of growth,

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Speaker 5: a new season of opportunity, a new season in your health,

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Speaker 5: a new season in your finances, a new season in

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Speaker 5: your relationships. I declare You're gonna see God's favor, his blessings, increase, promotion, opportunity,

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Speaker 5: a new season of God's best come in your way

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Speaker 5: in a greater way.

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Speaker 3: And if you receive that, can you say him in amen?

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Speaker 3: I know you do.

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Speaker 5: Or He never likes to close our godcast without giving

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Speaker 5: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord, Jesus of

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Speaker 5: my sins, come into my heart. I'll make you my

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Speaker 5: Lord and save you friends. If you prayed that simple prayer,

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Speaker 5: Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna take your places you've never dreamed of.

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