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Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer.

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Speaker 2: Know that we're praying for you, and we know God

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Speaker 2: has awesome things in store. So great having you with us.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message today, So.

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Speaker 2: God bless you. It's always a joy to come into

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Speaker 2: your homes each week. We love you. I know God's

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Speaker 2: got great things in store for you. He rewards the

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Speaker 2: people that seek after him. And if you're ever in

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Speaker 2: our area, I hope you'll stop by and be a

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Speaker 2: part of one of our services. These are the finest

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Speaker 2: people in all of Houston, Texas, right here at Lakewood,

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Speaker 2: So you come on out. We'll make you feel right

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Speaker 2: at home. Thanks for tuning in today. I like to

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Speaker 2: get started with something funny, and I heard about this

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Speaker 2: group of scientists.

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Speaker 1: They went to God and.

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Speaker 2: Said, God, we've decided we no longer need you. We

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Speaker 2: can clone people, we can transplant hearts, we can do

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Speaker 2: all kinds of things once considered miraculous, and God just

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Speaker 2: patiently hurt him out. Then God finally said, well, I

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Speaker 2: want to challenge you to a man making contest. The

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Speaker 2: only rule is you have to make man out of dirt.

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Speaker 2: The scientists agreed, and they quickly reached down and picked

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Speaker 2: up a handful of dirt. God said, not so fast.

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Speaker 2: Go get your own dirt, all right, 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. Today 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. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about taking the limits off of God. God wants to

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Speaker 2: do new things in our lives. He's a god of increase,

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Speaker 2: and we should always be rising to new levels. But

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Speaker 2: it's so easy in life to get stuck in a

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Speaker 2: we kind of think, well, I've reached my limits. I've

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Speaker 2: gone as far as I can go. This is as

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Speaker 2: happy as I'll ever be. My marriage will probably never

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Speaker 2: get any better than this. But if we're going to

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Speaker 2: continue to increase and really experience God's best, we have

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Speaker 2: to get our thinking lined up with God's thinking. And

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Speaker 2: the scripture says here in Psalm seventy eight, verse forty one,

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Speaker 2: that the people limited. The Holy One of Israel. Think

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Speaker 2: about that, the God who is limitless, the all powerful God,

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Speaker 2: the creator of the universe, he can be limited how

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Speaker 2: by our thinking. He can be limited by what we believe.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people don't realize today it's their

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Speaker 2: own wrong thinking that's keeping them in mediocrity. Well, I

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Speaker 2: don't think my child could ever do what's right. Or

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Speaker 2: I don't see how I could ever get out of debt,

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Speaker 2: or Joel, I've been sick so long, I just don't

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Speaker 2: see how I could ever really get well. Now. It's

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Speaker 2: that kind of negative mentality that will keep you right

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Speaker 2: where you are. You have to change your thinking before

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Speaker 1: This is where the children of Israel really missed it.

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Speaker 2: God brought them out of slavery, He did miracle after miracle.

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Speaker 2: But when they got out in the wilderness, the first

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Speaker 2: thing they said was, Moses, can God furnish a table

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Speaker 2: for us out here? In other words, can God provide

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Speaker 2: that kind of wrong thinking that kept them from ever

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Speaker 2: going in to the Promised Land. And no matter what

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Speaker 2: comes our way in life. We should never say can God.

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Speaker 2: Our attitude should be God can and I know God will.

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Speaker 2: My child may not be doing right, but I know

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Speaker 2: God can turn them around. My finances may be low today,

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Speaker 2: I know he can restore health back into me. See,

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Speaker 2: let's don't do like them and go around saying can God.

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Speaker 2: Let's be believers. God can and God will. And if

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Speaker 2: God can do anything, every one of us would lift

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Speaker 2: Are we positive, hopeful, expecting good things? A lot of

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Speaker 2: that's a sure sign that we've gotten out of faith. Now,

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Speaker 2: I heard a story about this famous tightrope walker. One day,

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Speaker 2: they stretched a cable across Niagara Falls, pulled it real tight.

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Speaker 2: Later in the day, this tightrope walker, he noticed a

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Speaker 2: don't think you could do it again. I know you

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Speaker 2: sure you could do it one more time. He said, no,

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Speaker 2: The man kind of got offended. He said, what are

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Speaker 2: am absolutely, positively, one hundred percent sure you can do

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Speaker 2: it again. He said, all right, get.

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Speaker 2: That man said, now that's a different story. See he

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Speaker 2: When we're really believing deep down in here, we know

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Speaker 2: And I am asking you today to get in the willbarrow.

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Speaker 2: You've seen God do it in the past, and you

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Speaker 2: know God's going to do it in the future. Quit

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Speaker 2: living your life worried, negative, discouraged. You've got to turn

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Speaker 2: those situations over to God and simply believe. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I'm on a tight budget. I just don't see how

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it with these high gas prices. Now

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Speaker 2: you need to remember who your God is. He is

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Speaker 2: the all powerful creator of the universe. And God is

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Speaker 2: not having a down year because of the economy. He's

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Speaker 2: gas prices are missing me. Up Gabe, would you go

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Speaker 2: get me another tile? And aw No, God is in control.

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Speaker 2: There is nothing too difficult for him. And when we believe,

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Speaker 2: all things become possible. I love the time in the

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Speaker 2: scripture when Peter didn't have money to pay his taxes.

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Speaker 2: Jesus simply said, Peter, go down to the lake, and

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Speaker 2: the first fish you catch, there's going to be enough

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Speaker 2: money for both yours and my taxes. He went down there,

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Speaker 2: sure enough. That's exactly what happened. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 1: But I'm asking you to be a believer.

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Speaker 2: You may have big problems, but we serve a big God.

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Speaker 2: Your enemies may be powerful, but our God is all powerful.

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Speaker 2: You need to remember who you are. You are a

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Speaker 2: child of the most High God. You have the DNA

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Speaker 2: through your veins. You are not created to be average.

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Speaker 2: You are not created to barely get by, dragged through life,

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Speaker 2: God has filled you with his can do power. You

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Speaker 2: and not a victim. When you're a victor, you know

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Speaker 2: that any adversity in your life is not permanent. It's temporary.

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Speaker 2: It didn't come to stay. It came to pass. Don't

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Speaker 2: ever accomplish my dreams. No, You've got the greatest power

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Speaker 2: until this situation turns around. See if we will get

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Speaker 2: our thinking in line with God's thinking, then our best

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Speaker 2: days are not behind us.

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Speaker 1: Our best days are in front of us.

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Speaker 2: And it says in Ephesians that God wants to do

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Speaker 2: The place says that no person has ever seen, heard,

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Speaker 2: I know that's you, but it's all according to how

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Speaker 2: we believe. Now.

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Speaker 1: I love what God said to Moses.

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Speaker 2: One time, the people were complaining out in the wilderness

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Speaker 2: tired of the manna, the bread that God was giving

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Speaker 2: What do you want me to tell them? And God said, Moses,

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Speaker 2: you tell them, that's no problem for me. I'll give

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Speaker 2: even if we butchered all of our flocks and all

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Speaker 2: God simply said, Moses, let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 2: When did I become weak? He was saying, did I

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Speaker 2: Jehovah Jirah, the Lord your provider. Did you forget that

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Speaker 2: my name is el Shadaye, the God who is more

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Speaker 2: than enough? Moses? When did I become weak? God simply

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Speaker 2: sent them quell for the next two months, and they

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Speaker 1: And we need to keep it in perspective.

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Speaker 2: Our father created it all when he said let there

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Speaker 2: thousand miles per second, still coming today. One time Moses

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Speaker 2: asked God what his name was, and God simply said,

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Speaker 2: I am anything you need. I am your health, I

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Speaker 2: I am your deliver I am your victory. I remember

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Speaker 2: growing up, my father used to say, if gas goes

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Speaker 2: a dollar a loaf, God will still take care of us.

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Speaker 2: I thought, if Daddy could only see us now, But

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Speaker 2: you know what God did it for us in the past,

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Speaker 2: He's going to do it for us in the future.

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Speaker 2: I think about this new facility that God has blessed

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Speaker 2: us with. It cost about one hundred million dollars for

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Speaker 2: us to renovate this place. Twenty five million a loan

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Speaker 2: if you'll stay in that attitude of faith, giving God praise,

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Speaker 2: Then, just like that shark, the enemy cannot close down.

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Speaker 2: Remember God is in control of your life. He's even

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Speaker 2: Trust him. May be an enemy of debt, an enemy

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Speaker 2: The scripture says, why don't you dare to believe him?

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Speaker 2: I know this friend of mine. He's an older gentleman,

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Speaker 2: didn't get discouraged. He just kept believing, kept being faithful,

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Speaker 2: kept being good to people, and God works in mysterious ways.

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Speaker 2: Certainly this isn't going to happen like this for every

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Speaker 2: one of us. But one day his son called and said, dad,

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Speaker 2: You'll never believe what happened. I just won the lottery

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Speaker 2: thirty seven million dollars. Later, the son not only bought

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Speaker 2: his dad a new car. He didn't buy him just

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Speaker 2: new furniture. He bought him a brand new house. Friends,

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Speaker 2: God wants to do more than we can even ask

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Speaker 2: or think. God is not limited. We limit him with

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Speaker 2: our own thinking. And I'm not telling any of you

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Speaker 2: to go play the lottery. I know some of you

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Speaker 2: are thinking, you Lord, that's a word I needed today.

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Speaker 2: Just give you the numbers. That's all you're going to

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Speaker 2: remember from my sermon. No, we never encourage people to

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Speaker 2: play the lottery, but if you do play and win,

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Speaker 2: make sure you tithe. We'll forgive you after you tithe.

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Speaker 2: This gentleman told me Joel three things I always tried

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Speaker 2: to teach my sons. Don't smoke, don't drink, and don't gamble.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, two out of three is not bad.

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Speaker 2: But God wants to give you the secret petitions of

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Speaker 2: your heart. Number one, you've got to be obedient, be

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Speaker 2: a person of excellence, have integrity, treat people right, and

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Speaker 2: always keep God first place in your life. And number two,

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Speaker 2: you have to take the limits off of God. Believe

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Speaker 2: for his best, get up every day expecting good things.

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Speaker 1: Well, Joel, this would never happen for me.

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Speaker 2: You don't know my luck. Man, I never get any

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Speaker 2: good breaks. You're right, it's not going to happen for you.

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Speaker 2: This is for believers. You've got to get out of

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Speaker 2: that negative mindset. Your life will not change until your

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Speaker 2: thinking changes. And every morning, before we leave the house,

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Speaker 2: we should say out loud, something good is going to

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Speaker 2: happen to me. This is the day the Lord has made,

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Speaker 2: and I believe his blessings are going to chase me

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Speaker 2: down and overtake me. Go out in an attitude of faith. Well, well, Joel,

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Speaker 2: what if I go out and I get stuck in traffic?

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Speaker 2: What if I have a lousy day? That doesn't change anything.

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Speaker 2: You still give God praise. You still think him that

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Speaker 2: you're alive. You think him that tomorrow will be better

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Speaker 2: than today. We've got to learn to take the limits

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Speaker 2: off of God. Growing up, we knew a man by

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Speaker 2: the name of Casey Jones. He was in the business

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Speaker 2: of moving houses. Sometimes you see the big houses going

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Speaker 2: down the freeways. That's what Casey did for a living.

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Speaker 2: And he was a very unusual man. He would believe

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Speaker 2: for anything. And one day he and his men were

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Speaker 2: moving this big house and then traveled several hours way

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Speaker 2: out into the country. When they finally got to their destination,

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Speaker 2: Casey realized he had forgotten the main chain that he

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Speaker 2: needed to unload that house, and he was so disappointed.

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Speaker 2: They were miles and miles from the nearest town. It's

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Speaker 2: getting late in the day, and he didn't want to

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Speaker 2: have to come back the next day, and so he

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Speaker 2: decided to pray. And the men that were with him,

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Speaker 2: they kind of laughed. They said, Casey, what are you

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Speaker 2: going to pray about? He said, I'm going to pray

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Speaker 2: and ask God to give me a chain. And oh,

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Speaker 2: they really begin to laugh. They said, Casey, are you serious.

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Speaker 2: What do you think God's going to rain down a

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Speaker 2: chain from heaven? He said, I don't know, but the

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Speaker 2: Bible says we have not because we asked not, so

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask. So he just bowed his head and said, God,

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Speaker 2: I know you love me. I know there's nothing too

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Speaker 2: difficult for you, and so I'm just asking you to

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Speaker 2: somehow someway give me a chain so I don't have

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Speaker 2: to come all the way back out here tomorrow. Now,

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Speaker 2: they were standing on the side of this country road,

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Speaker 2: and a few feet in front of them there was

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Speaker 2: a sharp curve in the road. And about that time,

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Speaker 2: this old beat up pickup truck came barreling down the road,

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Speaker 2: going much faster than it should and it had its

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Speaker 2: tailgate open. And when that pickup truck took the curve

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Speaker 2: going too fast, a chain slung out of the back

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Speaker 2: of the pickup bear. It slid right across the road

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Speaker 2: and curled up at Casey Jones's feet. He picked it

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Speaker 2: up and said, here's my chain. Boys, let's go to work. Friends.

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Speaker 2: God is a supernatural god. He can do what men

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Speaker 2: can't do. When we believe, all things become possible. I'm

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Speaker 2: asking you to take the limits off of God. Quit

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Speaker 2: trying to figure everything out, and just believe. Get in

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Speaker 2: the wheelbarrow. You've seen God do it in the past.

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Speaker 2: He's going to do it for you. Get in the future.

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Speaker 2: But you've got to make room for it in your

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Speaker 2: own thinking. Remember, no matter what comes against you in life,

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Speaker 2: God is in control. He's even in control of your enemies.

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Speaker 2: And if you'll be a believer and keep the it's

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Speaker 2: off of God. You will overcome any obstacle. You'll rise

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Speaker 2: higher and higher, and I know that God will take

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Speaker 2: you places that you've never even dreamed of. Do you

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Speaker 2: receive it today? We never like to close our God

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Speaker 2: prays without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the

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Speaker 2: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,

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Speaker 2: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart.

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Speaker 1: I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: got born again. Get in a good church. Keep God

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Speaker 2: first place. He'll take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Our negative thinking can short circuit God's power and blessing

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Speaker 3: in our lives. When you say, I always seem to worry.

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Speaker 3: I can't forgive what was done to me. I pray,

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Speaker 3: but it feels like God doesn't hear. I won't have

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Speaker 3: enough to provide for me and my family. How do

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Speaker 3: you overcome this type of negative thinking that limits you

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Speaker 3: from God's best.

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Speaker 2: Our thinking sets the limits for our life. Every morning.

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Speaker 2: You have to power up your mind, get it going

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Speaker 2: in the right direction, but dwell to know what God

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Speaker 2: says about you. When you think thoughts of faith, hope,

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Speaker 2: and victory. You'll tap into blessing and favor that belongs

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Speaker 2: to you. Now, I'd love to send you my newest book.

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Speaker 2: life will go in the right direction. Start powering up

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Speaker 2: each day and watch what God will do. Victory and

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