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Speaker 1: This is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 2: We love you and we sure hope you enjoyed the message. Well,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. Great to have you with us today.

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Speaker 1: I'll promise you we'll keep you encouraged and inspired. But

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Speaker 1: thanks for tuning in. Thanks again for coming out. I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 1: this man. He was quietly reading the newspaper when his

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Speaker 1: wife snuck up behind him and hit him on the

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Speaker 1: head with a frying pan.

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Speaker 2: He said, what was that for?

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Speaker 1: She said, that was for the piece of paper I

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Speaker 1: found in your pocket with the name Mary Lou on it.

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Speaker 1: He said, oh, honey, that's just one of the horses

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Speaker 1: that I bet on at the race track last week.

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Speaker 2: She apologized and went about her business.

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Speaker 1: Two days later, she hit him on the head with

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Speaker 1: a bigger frying pan. After he woke up, he said,

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Speaker 2: The world was that for?

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Speaker 1: She said, your horse just called. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 1: I will be talked the word of God. I'll boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 1: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about start a blessing.

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Speaker 1: The decisions we make don't just affect our lives, They

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Speaker 1: affect generations to come. The way you live can make

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Speaker 1: it easier on your children, or it can make it

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Speaker 2: You can be a.

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Speaker 1: Stepping stone for them to do greater things, or a

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Speaker 1: stumbling block that holds them back. Person and lives and

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Speaker 1: dies unto himself. The blessing and favor that you're walking

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Speaker 1: in today, it didn't just happen because of you. Somebody

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Speaker 1: went before you that sowed seeds so you could be blessed.

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Speaker 1: A praying mother, a grandfather that honored God, a great,

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Speaker 1: great relative that you never met, but they gave, they served,

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Speaker 1: and now you're reaping a harvest of what they planted.

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Speaker 1: In the same way, negative things we're dealing with have

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Speaker 1: been passed down, addictions, anger, depression.

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Speaker 2: That didn't start with you.

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Speaker 1: The good news is it can stop with you. You can

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Speaker 1: be the one to set your family on a new course.

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Speaker 2: You can start a blessing.

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Speaker 1: You can start freedom, you can start wholeness, You can

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Speaker 1: start victory. When you make decisions that honor God. When

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Speaker 1: you're generous, when you're faithful, your life is not only

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Speaker 1: going to be more rewarding, more fulfilling, but that faithfulness,

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Speaker 1: that obedience is being credited to your children's account, to

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Speaker 1: your grandchildren, to future generations. Just as the negative gets

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Speaker 1: lot about generational curses, but there's something called a generational blessing.

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Speaker 2: God is keeping an account of every good thing you do,

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Speaker 2: the times you forgive when you could stay bitter.

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Speaker 1: The times being your best when nobody's given you the

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Speaker 1: credit that's not being overlooked. It's accruing mercy, favor, blessing

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Speaker 1: into your family's account. Grandchildren that have not yet been

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Speaker 1: born great great grandchildren that you'll never meet. Yet, because

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Speaker 2: It's because you started a blessing.

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Speaker 1: You took the high road, You broke the addiction, you

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Speaker 1: Not only are you going to see God take you

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Speaker 2: How this should challenge us to live a life.

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Speaker 1: Of faith, a life of excellence, a life of generosity.

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Speaker 1: I want my descendants to do great things because of me,

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Speaker 1: not in spite of me. Our children have enough to

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Speaker 2: She took our family to a new level. They're the

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Speaker 1: Genesis chapter fourteen, Abraham learned that his nephew Lot and

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Speaker 1: As they were returning, mel Kezedek, the high priest met

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Speaker 1: Melkezedek a tenth of everything he recovered. That's the first

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Speaker 2: Abraham didn't have to do that, it.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't required, but he was a giver. He recognized that

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Speaker 1: every good thing came from God. That seemed like a

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Speaker 1: more significant than that. Abraham had a son named Isaac.

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Speaker 1: named Levi. Levi was four generations from Abraham. The scripture

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Speaker 1: seed from which he came was in Abraham's loins when

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Speaker 1: he gave the tithe to Melkezedak. This is saying Abraham

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Speaker 1: because his great grandfather was generous. He had this advantage

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Speaker 1: He didn't just see favor, but that obedience was credited

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Speaker 1: to Levi's account. Four generations later, God said, I still

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Speaker 1: I'm going to bless you because of him. The scripture

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Speaker 1: says in Malachi, when you tithe your income, when you're generous,

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Speaker 1: That doesn't just mean that you'll have overflow. It means

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Speaker 1: flow down to the next generation. In the next because

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Speaker 1: it's hard, because you give you sacrifice. God is crediting

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Speaker 1: blessings that you cannot contain.

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Speaker 2: David put it this way.

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Speaker 1: my grandchildren born with an advantage because of you. You

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Speaker 1: Don't get talked out of doing the right thing. Keep

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Speaker 1: seen this in my own life. I didn't get to

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Speaker 1: honored God. My grandmother on my mother's side, was a

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Speaker 1: My grandfather, her husband, was a giver. He lived to

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Speaker 1: help others. He was raised very poor. His father died

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Speaker 1: He spent his whole career working at the refinery in Baytown.

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Speaker 1: kept a record of all of his giving, all handwritten.

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Speaker 1: It had the date, the amount he gave, and where

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Speaker 1: he gave it. Thirty dollars to Lakewood, twenty dollars to

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Speaker 1: Central Baptist, twelve dollars to the Building Fund. Decades of

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Speaker 2: No wonder I'm blessed, No wonder.

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Speaker 2: That I didn't plan.

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Speaker 1: People that went before me honored God. Now I'm walking

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Speaker 1: in the blessing in part because of them. My grandfather

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Speaker 1: couldn't contain it all. His generation, couldn't hold all that

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Speaker 1: At one point he came to the back window and

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Speaker 2: He said, Joel, who lives there now? I kind of laughed.

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Speaker 1: I said, Granddaddy, that's our garage. That's a part of

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Speaker 1: powerful this generational blessing is. Levi made mistakes in life.

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Speaker 1: His father, Jacob, was so upset. Years later, when Jacob

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Speaker 1: He said, because you were hot headed and he had

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Speaker 1: It looked like he had lost the blessing, lost the

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Speaker 1: Joseph would have responded. It would have gone from generation

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Speaker 1: to generation. What made the difference. Esau started a blessing.

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Speaker 1: Esau said, I Am not going to live angry offended,

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Speaker 1: paying people back.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to show mercy.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to model for my family, my children, my

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Speaker 1: nephew's love.

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Speaker 2: Kindness, forgiveness.

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Speaker 1: You may have a good reason to live angry, offended, dysfunctional.

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Speaker 2: It's what you've seen or somebody did you wrong.

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Speaker 1: You can be an Esau. You can set your family

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Speaker 1: on a new course. The decisions you may will affect

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Speaker 1: generations to come.

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Speaker 2: It just needs someone.

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Speaker 1: To start a blessing, to start forgiveness, to start freedom,

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Speaker 1: to start excellence.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you let that be you.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be hearing this if you weren't called to

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Speaker 1: help your family come up higher in some way. Let's

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Speaker 1: start passing down good things like Abraham. Let's pass down generosity.

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Speaker 1: Let's make it easier on those that come.

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Speaker 2: After us, like Esau.

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Speaker 1: Let's break any generational curse, and let's start the generational blessing.

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Speaker 1: Let's deposit good things into their accounts. If you'll do this,

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Speaker 1: I believe and declare You're not only going to rise

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Speaker 1: higher and see God's favor, but like with Levi, your

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Speaker 1: children and future generations are going to have an advantage.

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Speaker 1: They are going to be born with a blessing because

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Speaker 1: of your faithfulness. They're going to go further, They're going

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Speaker 1: to accomplish more. They're going to become all they were

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Speaker 1: created to be. In Jesus' name. If you receive it,

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Speaker 1: can you say amen?

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Speaker 2: Today?

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Speaker 1: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the.

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Speaker 2: Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 1: into my heart.

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Speaker 2: I'll make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 1: If you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 1: God first place. Victorian, I'll be right back to speak

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Speaker 1: a blessing over you.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes life can make you feel like you were just

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Speaker 3: living in the dark. Even your prayers don't feel like

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Speaker 3: they are making it to heaven. But God is listening,

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Speaker 3: and his light is about to shine.

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Speaker 1: We know God is all powerful, that he can answer

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Speaker 1: any prayer, but sometimes we don't know what to pray.

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Speaker 2: We don't think we deserve God's goodness.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we're inconveniencing him, or he has more important things

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Speaker 1: to deal with. But God is concerned about every detail

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Speaker 1: of your life.

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