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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 5: about this minister. He was walking down the street and

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Speaker 5: he came upon this group of young boys that were

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Speaker 4: He asked what they were doing.

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Speaker 5: They explained they were having a contest, and whoever could

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Speaker 5: The minister launched into a ten minute sermon on lying,

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Speaker 5: starting with don't you know lying is a sin? And

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Speaker 5: ending with when I was your age, I never told

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Speaker 4: There was complete silence.

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Speaker 5: Just when he thought he had gotten through to them,

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Speaker 5: the youngest boy spoke up and said, all right, give

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Speaker 5: him the dog. Hold up your bible and say it

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Speaker 5: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 5: what it says I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 5: I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 5: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus name, God

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Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 5: how you are a no lack person. When God created you,

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Speaker 5: he put in you everything you need to fulfill your destiny.

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Speaker 5: You have the talent, the creativity, the ideas. You are

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Speaker 5: full of discipline, focus, self control. You have strength, determination, resolve.

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Speaker 5: The creator of the universe has crowned you with his favor.

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Speaker 5: If you're going to live a victorious life, you have

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Speaker 5: to see yourself as a no lack person.

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Speaker 5: Yourself will determine what kind of life you live. If

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Speaker 5: I'll never have enough, what you're really saying is I'm

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Speaker 5: He's already equipped and empowered you. You may have difficulties,

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Speaker 5: not too big. You have the talent, the strength, the determination,

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Speaker 5: so important how you see yourself. You may be dealing

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Speaker 5: person trying to get well. You are a well person

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Speaker 4: Health is your normal state.

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Speaker 5: You may be struggling in your finances, but you're not

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Speaker 5: person fighting off poverty. Abundance is your normal stake. You

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Speaker 5: may be struggling with an addiction. You've had it many years.

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Speaker 5: Don't see yourself as an addict. Don't let that image

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Speaker 5: Person fighting off an addiction. Freedom is your normal state.

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Speaker 5: That's not who you are. God made you as a masterpiece.

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Speaker 5: Get a new image. Start seeing yourself strong, healthy, accomplishing

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Speaker 4: This is what the people of Israel had to do.

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Speaker 5: They had spent years in slavery, being mistreated. All they

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Speaker 5: with all this treasure? They were going out into the wilderness.

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Speaker 5: There was no place to spend it out there, no

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Speaker 5: These children, all they had ever seen was defeat. It

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Speaker 5: What's interesting is these parents, they never did make it

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Speaker 5: they didn't think they could overcome their obstacles. But these children,

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Speaker 5: You today, if you would just change the way you

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Speaker 5: see yourself, you would rise to a new level. Maybe

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Speaker 5: I've learned you will never rise any higher than the

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Speaker 5: no lack person. When I was a little boy, my

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Speaker 5: You're not lacking, You're not limited. You have everything you

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Speaker 4: This is what David did.

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Speaker 5: When he saw Goliath taunting the people of Israel. Something

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Speaker 4: You were born to defeat Goliath. He heard his destiny

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Speaker 5: But David could have thought of a thousand reasons why

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Speaker 5: In other words, it's just a matter of time. I

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Speaker 5: will come into my abundance. Be careful what comes out

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Speaker 5: of your mouth. Don't go around talking about how high

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Speaker 5: prices are and how you're never going.

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Speaker 4: To make it. If you talk lack, you're gonna have lack.

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Speaker 5: The right attitude is prices may be high, but God

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Speaker 5: always supplies my needs.

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Speaker 4: Business may be a little off, but I'm not going under.

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Speaker 4: I'm going over.

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Speaker 5: God always causes me to try have that report of victory.

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Speaker 5: Had this young couple one time They asked me if

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Speaker 5: I would pray that this furniture that they liked would

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Speaker 5: go on sell. They had been watching it a long

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Speaker 5: time and they knew if it went on sal they'd

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Speaker 5: be able to buy it. After I thought about it

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Speaker 5: a moment, I said, instead of praying that it'll go

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Speaker 5: on sell, I would rather pray that God will bless

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Speaker 5: you in such a way that, even if it doesn't

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Speaker 5: go on sel, you'll still be able to buy it. See,

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Speaker 5: God owns it all. It's not about us trying to

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Speaker 5: make things come down so we can afford it.

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Speaker 4: It's about us.

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Speaker 5: Believing to come up higher to where we're supposed to be.

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Speaker 5: The same God that can cause it to go on

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Speaker 5: don't have to sit around and wait for some kind

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Speaker 5: of discount. Now, I'm all for getting good deals and

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Speaker 5: getting things on sale, but don't have a cheap, narrow

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Speaker 5: vision that will limit what God can do in your life.

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Speaker 5: When I was eight years old, I went to a

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Speaker 5: and the man waiting on us found out that my

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Speaker 5: dad was a minister, and he said in a very

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Speaker 5: demeaning way, like we were second class. Will you know

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Speaker 5: if you can't afford it, we can give you a

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Speaker 5: minister's discount. Well, my father was raised in extreme poverty.

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Speaker 5: He came out of the Great Depression, and they didn't

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Speaker 5: have enough food to eat growing up. Daddy had to

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Speaker 5: put cardboard in his shoes as a little boy because

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Speaker 5: they had holes in him. When this man said, sarcastically,

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Speaker 5: we can give you this discount. It rubbed my father

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Speaker 5: the wrong way. I could see it in his eyes.

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Speaker 5: Daddy thought to himself, I am not a beggar. I

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Speaker 5: don't need a handout. I'm a child of the most

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Speaker 5: High God.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't out of arrogance.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't out of pride, but more out of a

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Speaker 5: confidence of who he was and who he represented. He

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Speaker 5: looked at that salesman in the eyes and he said, no, sir,

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Speaker 5: I don't take a minister's discount.

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Speaker 4: Do you know who my father is?

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Speaker 5: That man stepped back, like Daddy came from some kind

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Speaker 5: of influential, well to do family.

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Speaker 4: He didn't know. Daddy wasn't talking about his earthly father.

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Speaker 5: He was talking about his heavenly father. He was saying,

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Speaker 5: in effect, this is a new day. I've stepped out

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Speaker 5: of poverty and lack. The God I serve doesn't need

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Speaker 5: a discount. He's well able to take care of me.

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Speaker 5: He's all shadow of the God who is more than enough. Friends,

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Speaker 5: God doesn't want you to be dependent on a handout,

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Speaker 5: a discount, a blue light special, Black Friday, Cyber Monday,

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Speaker 5: leftover bread, hoping that things will come down so you'll

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Speaker 5: be able to afford it.

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Speaker 4: That's not who you are. Have a bigger vision.

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Speaker 5: God has an abundance in front of each one of you.

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Speaker 4: He's the God of more than enough.

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Speaker 5: You may not be there just yet, but what I'm

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Speaker 5: asking you to do is to not settle where you are.

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Speaker 5: It says in Deuteronomy that God gives you the power

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Speaker 5: to get wealth. There are seeds in you right now

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Speaker 5: that can bring an abundance, gifts, talents, skills, ideas, creativity, favor.

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Speaker 5: God didn't leave anybody out. You've got to remind yourself

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Speaker 5: you are a no lack person. You are blessed, you

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Speaker 5: are prosperous, you are well able, and yes, you may

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Speaker 5: be having to have some kind of assistance right now,

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Speaker 5: but if you will have this attitude before long, instead

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Speaker 5: of taking a handout, you'll be given a handout.

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Speaker 4: Instead of borrowing, you'll be the lender.

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Speaker 5: Now I know today I am looking at no lack people.

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Speaker 4: You are full of talent.

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Speaker 5: Creativity, courage, strength, ability. You have been anointed, accepted and

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Speaker 5: approved by the creator of the universe. Now get up

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Speaker 5: every morning and remind yourself I am a no lack person.

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Speaker 5: See yourself strong, healthy, accomplish in your dreams, living the

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Speaker 5: abundant life. Keep the right image in front of you

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Speaker 5: when you face difficulties. Remember you are ready for and

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Speaker 5: equal to anything that comes your way.

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Speaker 4: It's temporary, it's light.

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Speaker 5: Almighty God has infused strength into each one of you.

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Speaker 5: If you will see yourself as this no lack person,

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Speaker 5: then like David, you will defeat every giant. You will

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Speaker 5: overcome every obstacle. You will accomplish every God given dream.

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Speaker 5: Now I believe and declare you're going to live that

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Speaker 5: life of abundance that God has in store.

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Speaker 4: Amen, do you receive it today?

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Speaker 4: my lord and save you. Friends.

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