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Speaker 4: tuning in and thanks again for coming out. I like

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Speaker 4: to start with something funny in I heard about this man.

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Speaker 4: He was at the airline ticket counter, hollering and screaming

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Speaker 4: must be a Christian. How could you possibly be so

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Speaker 4: kind to him? She smiled and said, oh, it wasn't

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Speaker 4: that hard. See he's going to Detroit, but his bags

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Speaker 4: are going to Bangkok. Hold your Bible up and say

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

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

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

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Speaker 4: can do. Today I will be taught to word of God.

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Speaker 4: I've boldly confessed. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 4: being a now person. It's easy to put things off

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Speaker 4: we plan on doing it. We have good intentions, We're

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Speaker 4: person that hurt me. The problem with this kind of

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Speaker 4: thinking is one day never comes. There will always be

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Speaker 4: some reason not to do it. How many people know

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Speaker 4: doubt in their heart things they need to change. God's

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Speaker 4: they keep making excuses. Soon as I get through this

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Speaker 4: go around with this heaviness is they've got so much

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Speaker 4: Procrastination is my weakness. It only brings me sorrow. I

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Speaker 4: God brings something to light. If you'll deal with it

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Speaker 4: Maybe next week. Next week turns into next month, next

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Speaker 4: destiny stands before you. God has something amazing in your future.

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Speaker 4: But it says in Proverbs complacency kills. Being passive will

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Speaker 4: you're not faithful with what you have, God won't entrust

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Speaker 4: you with more. When lady told me how she hadn't

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Speaker 4: until you have a thousand dollars tithe on the ten

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Speaker 4: Like Larry the Cable Guy says, get her done, do

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Speaker 4: something about it. It's amazing how much more will enjoy

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Speaker 4: saying Joel, give him a gift. Now. I had good intentions.

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Speaker 4: felt the heaviness release off of me. See. God doesn't

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Speaker 4: reward good intentions. He rewards obedience. So often we think,

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Speaker 4: God asks you to do something that seems hard, number one,

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Speaker 4: and number two, it's because He has something so much

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Speaker 4: planning to make peace with the relative for twenty years.

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Speaker 4: You can't afford to put off what God's put in

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Speaker 4: say right now immediately at this moment, No, Pharaoh said

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Speaker 4: times do we do the same thing, Joel, I'm going

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Speaker 4: gonna have a better attitude. I'm gonna quit worrying tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: We're saying, like Fairo, I can put up with this addiction,

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Speaker 4: Now our attitude should be I'm not gonna spend one

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a step of faith. Friends, your time

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Speaker 4: is too valuable, your destiny too great, your future too

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Speaker 4: bright to waste a single moment. You gotta shake off

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Speaker 4: new boldness. My prayer is we're gonna be like Joshua

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Speaker 4: and Caleb, not put it off people, but let us

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Speaker 4: go in at once, people like the lady with the

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Speaker 4: gonna be people of action. Here's my assignment. Think of

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Speaker 4: at least one area that you've been procrastinating in your health.

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Speaker 4: Your finances are a relationship. Not taking a step of faith,

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Speaker 4: to forgive, to get back in shade, to pursue a dream.

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Speaker 4: This is your high time. You are close to seeing

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Speaker 4: that promise come to pass. If you will be a

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Speaker 4: promotion is coming, favor is coming, breakthroughs are coming. You're

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Speaker 4: going to live the abundant life that God has in

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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