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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Julian Victorium. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for.

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Speaker 2: Supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have.

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Speaker 1: An awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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

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Speaker 1: bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: We're here at the Miami Marlins Baseball Stadium with some

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Speaker 1: of the finest people in all of Florida right here

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Speaker 1: at the ball stadium.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic people. Victories and not victorms. Hold up your Bible.

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Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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

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

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Speaker 2: I can do. Tonight I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same, never, never, never,

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

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you tonight about how God

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Speaker 1: will finish what he started. The moment God put a

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Speaker 1: dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root,

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Speaker 1: God not only started it, but he set a completion date.

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Speaker 1: God is called the author and the finisher of our faith.

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Speaker 1: God wouldn't have given you the dream, the promise wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have come alive if God didn't already have.

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Speaker 2: A plan to bring it to pass.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how long it's been or how impossible it looks.

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Speaker 1: Your mind may tell you it's too late, You've missed

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Speaker 1: too many opportunities. It's never going to happen. No, God

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Speaker 1: is saying it's not over. I have the final say.

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Speaker 1: I've already set the completion day. And if you will

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Speaker 1: stay in faith and not talk yourself out of it,

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Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time before it comes to pass.

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Speaker 1: But some of you tonight you've lost your fire. At

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Speaker 1: one time, you believed you could do something great. You

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Speaker 1: had a big dream. Maybe you believed you could start

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Speaker 1: that business, believe that you'd get.

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Speaker 2: But it's been so long. You tried and it didn't

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Speaker 2: work out.

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Speaker 1: The loan didn't go through, the medical report wasn't good.

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Speaker 1: Now the never lies are playing in your mind. I'll

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Speaker 1: never get well, I'll never get married, I'll never accomplish

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Speaker 2: Now you have to have a new perspective.

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Speaker 1: The creator of the universe has already set that completion date.

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Speaker 2: Just because it.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's not going to happen.

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Speaker 1: God has already lined up the right people, the right breaks,

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Speaker 2: Everything you need is already in your future.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got to shake off the doubt, shake off

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Speaker 1: the discouragement. Whether it's been a year, five years, or

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Speaker 1: fifty years, what God promised you, he still has every

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Speaker 1: intention of bringing it to pass. In the scripture, there's

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Speaker 1: a man by the name of Simeon. An angel appeared

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Speaker 1: unto him and told him, you will not die until

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Speaker 1: far out that promise seen, especially back then he would

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Speaker 1: your family members.

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Speaker 2: They may not be happy for you. They may tell you.

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Speaker 1: How it's not going to happen, and you're too old,

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Speaker 1: and you really think you can do that, Keep it

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Speaker 1: to yourself. That's between you and God. The scripture calls

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Speaker 1: it a secret petition of our heart. You're went by,

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Speaker 1: and Simeon didn't see any sign of the Messiah. Five years,

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Speaker 2: It's never going to happen. The enemy has no new tricks.

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Speaker 1: Same type of lies on us today. Doubt, discouragement. You

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Speaker 1: really think you're going to get well. You saw the

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Speaker 1: medical report. You really think you could accomplish those dreams.

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Speaker 1: You don't have the funds, the connections. Now, let those.

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Speaker 2: Thoughts go in one ear and out the other. I

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Speaker 1: God, I know you're a god of completion. You said

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Speaker 1: can't die yet. There are too many promises that have

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Speaker 2: Bad breaks can't stop it, sickness can't stop it. Death

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Speaker 1: God is going to complete your incompletions. You will not

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Speaker 1: even the secret petitions of your heart. And it may

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Speaker 2: No, he created you to do something amazing.

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Speaker 1: He's put seeds of greatness on the inside. He's whispered

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Speaker 1: things to you in the middle of the night that

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Speaker 1: seemed too big, far out, impossible. But God is saying,

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Speaker 1: that was my voice, that's my dream for your life.

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Speaker 2: It's it's more rewarding.

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Speaker 1: You may not see how it can happen, may look

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Speaker 1: like it's been too long, but if you'll stay in faith,

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Speaker 2: He will finish what he started.

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Speaker 1: I met a one hundred and six year old man

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Speaker 1: he was so happy, so full of joy. He looked

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Speaker 1: he looked. I'll never forget what he said. He touched

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Speaker 1: his face and said, Joel Black, don't crack. He was

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Speaker 1: so funny. But I asked him how long he planned

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Speaker 1: on living. He told how he has seven children. One

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Speaker 1: serving God. He said, I can't die yet because God

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Speaker 1: the Lord. I love that attitude. I can't die until

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Speaker 1: I see God bring every promise to pass. Friends, you've

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Speaker 1: got to stir up what God's put on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Life will try to push you down, steal your dreams,

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Speaker 2: And I want you to have this new attitude.

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Speaker 1: What God started in your life, he is going to

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Speaker 2: But here's the real question.

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Speaker 1: Will you keep believing even though it looks impossible. Will

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Speaker 2: Voice tells you that it's not going to happen. This

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Speaker 2: is what David did.

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Speaker 1: He was anointed to be king at seventeen years of age,

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Speaker 2: For thirteen years, he had.

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Speaker 1: A lot come against him. King Saul was jealous of him,

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Speaker 1: tried to kill him. Even though David had done no wrong.

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Speaker 2: Caves year after year. I'm sure he thought, God, did

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Speaker 1: At one point, a man named Nabel insulted David. He

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Speaker 2: This set David off. He was furious. I don't think

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Speaker 1: It was the fact that Nabel was rude, but it

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Speaker 1: up frustration on the inside. He'd heard the voice again

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Speaker 1: and again. Look at you, man, You're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: David and his men set out toward Nabel's property. They

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Speaker 1: a young lady showed up by the name of Abigail.

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Speaker 1: This was Nabel's wife. She said, David, you're the next

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Speaker 1: Why are you going to go mess with my husband.

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Speaker 1: That's like swatting a little fly. She reminded David what

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Speaker 1: God has spoken over him. David says, you know what

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Speaker 1: You're right. I know there's a promise in me, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to let the fact that it's taken

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Speaker 2: He turned around, went back home. God has put a

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Speaker 2: promise in every one of you. But maybe, like David,

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Speaker 2: right now, you're in the wilderness where you don't see

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Speaker 2: anything happening.

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Speaker 1: You think, Joel, I've been praying, believing for a year,

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Speaker 2: It's never going to work out.

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Speaker 1: Now. Let me be the voice of Abigail. Stay the course,

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Speaker 1: keep believing.

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Speaker 2: You may be tired, discouraged, tempted to be frustrated.

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Speaker 1: high road. Our God is a faithful god. It may

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Speaker 1: will finish in your life. A good friend of mine

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Speaker 1: Wife Eileen pastor Family Faith Church in Huntsville, Texas, and

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Speaker 1: when we were in high school. Jeff drove down to

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Speaker 1: he had done this many times before. This day, he

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Speaker 1: As Jeff was launching the boat, he asked the man

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Speaker 1: from the gas wells. The man said, we're directly north.

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Speaker 1: If you're anywhere around those gas wells, just go do

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Speaker 2: You'll make it back to this dock.

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Speaker 1: Jeff and his friend traveled an hour in their little

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Speaker 1: much fun, catching so many fish. What they didn't realize

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Speaker 2: It happened so quickly that it caught them off guard.

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Speaker 1: They could only see twenty thirty feet in each direction,

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Speaker 1: so getting kind of late, the sun started to go

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Speaker 2: Told his friend pull up the anchor, we got to

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Speaker 2: sense of direction. He could only see fog.

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Speaker 1: All of his logic said we need to go this way.

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Speaker 1: He asked his friend his father's a big fisherman as well.

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Speaker 1: He said, no, Jeff, it's not that direction. It's this direction,

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Speaker 1: totally opposite what Jeff fought. Now he was really confused.

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Speaker 1: He got his compass out due north. Like the men

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Speaker 2: What both of them thought.

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Speaker 1: Against all sense of reasoning, Jeff cranked up the motor

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Speaker 1: and started traveling due north. Everything in his mind told him,

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Speaker 1: the man at the dock said. God north and you'll

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Speaker 2: He traveled crept along, couldn't go fast, fifteen minutes, thirty minutes,

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Speaker 1: And God says, get started. God is saying the same

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Speaker 1: dreams back, get your hopes up. God has put some

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's been years. You tried, it didn't work out,

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Speaker 2: you had some setbacks.

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Speaker 1: God is saying it's time to start dreaming again, start

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Speaker 1: believing again, start praying again, start expecting again. Some of

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Speaker 1: for it. It didn't work out.

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Speaker 2: That was ten years ago. God says, begin again.

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Speaker 1: Some of you, at one time you knew you could

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Speaker 1: break that addiction, but it didn't happen. Now you've gotten comfortable,

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Speaker 1: God is saying, begin again.

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Speaker 2: Some of you had a big dream for your life.

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Speaker 1: You were going to break out of the mold and

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Speaker 2: But you had some disappointments. Nobody believed in you, nobody

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Speaker 2: encouraged you. Now you think it's over. But God is

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Speaker 2: saying it's not over. I have the final say begin again.

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Speaker 2: You have seeds of greatness on the inside. God wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have put the promise in your heart unless he already

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Speaker 2: intended to bring it to pass. Here's how the scripture

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Speaker 2: puts it.

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Speaker 1: Be confident of this, He that begin a good work in.

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Speaker 2: You will bring it to completion. Friends.

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Speaker 1: God is saying to each one of you tonight, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to complete your incompletions. I'm going to finish what

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Speaker 1: I started. I remember the dreams I'm placed in your heart.

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Speaker 1: I've lined up the right people, the right opportunities. It's

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Speaker 1: not too late. You haven't missed too many opportunities, you

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Speaker 1: haven't made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 2: Begin again.

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Speaker 1: Get your fire back, get your passion back, and remember,

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't happen your way, keep the right perspective

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Speaker 1: that would have been a healing. God has a resurrection,

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Speaker 1: He has something better come in you away if you'll

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Speaker 1: stir your faith up. Like zarube Bel told Zachariah, to

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Speaker 1: be confident that God will finish what he started. And

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Speaker 1: I believe and declare. God is going to complete your incompletions.

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Speaker 1: He is going to shift things in your favor. He

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Speaker 1: is going to release a flood of his goodness, a

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Speaker 1: flood of mercy, a flood of ideas. You will overcome

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Speaker 1: every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become everything God's.

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Speaker 2: Created you to be in Jesus' name. It's January. Time

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Speaker 2: to renew my faith. It's January. It's time to start

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Speaker 2: a new season. It's January.

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Speaker 3: There is no better time than now to set the

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Speaker 1: knowing that God is in control, that His plans for

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