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

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Speaker 4: about this man. He said, I've read so many terrible

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Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 4: to you today about the God who exceeds expectations. Have

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Speaker 4: We think let me have enough to get by. God

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Speaker 4: This is what happened to a man in Acts chapter three.

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Speaker 4: They're going to think, how could you be so blessed?

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Speaker 4: and time again where God exceeded my expectations. I was

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Speaker 4: Outwalked the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen to wait

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Speaker 4: But I would love to tell you that I believe

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Speaker 4: for all the increase, the favor, the promotion, the Compact centers,

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Speaker 4: all my ideas because I had great faith. That's not

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Speaker 4: I don't have great faith. Neither did I. All the

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Speaker 4: It's not going to be a little exceeded, a little

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Speaker 4: God is going to exceed it abundantly above what you're thinking.

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