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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joeln Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: podcast and thanks for supporting the Mini's strength.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life, and you may be seeded.

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Speaker 3: I know that He is pleased with us today.

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Speaker 2: You know, if we're going to see the fullness of

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Speaker 2: God's promises in our life, we're going to have to

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Speaker 2: develop the ability to see beyond where we are right now.

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Speaker 2: You see, God is always taking us to new levels,

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Speaker 2: to greater places.

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Speaker 3: He's always wanting us to stretch and grow.

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Speaker 2: He's wanting to increase our faith, he's wanting to deepen

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Speaker 2: our strength, and he's wanting us to see new victories

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Speaker 2: in our life.

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Speaker 3: So today I want you to know where you are right.

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Speaker 2: Now, it's not your final destination. God's got amazing things

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Speaker 2: in store for you. I think about the hero of faith, Abraham.

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Speaker 2: He's the father of our faith and you can find

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Speaker 2: his story in Genesis, and when you read his story,

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Speaker 2: there's amazing things about his life. But there's something I

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Speaker 2: want to point out today, and many of you know

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Speaker 2: the story of Abraham and how he left his father's

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Speaker 2: home to follow God, to go to a place that

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Speaker 2: God would show him. And he declared over Abraham's life

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Speaker 2: that he would be a blessing, that he would bless

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Speaker 2: people all over this world, that he would be a

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Speaker 2: great nation, that God would do amazing things in his life. So,

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Speaker 2: as he was traveling with God, he had his nephew

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Speaker 2: Lot with him. I know you know this story. So

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Speaker 2: he and Lot took off to follow God. Scripture tells

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Speaker 2: us that there was a point in time where he

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Speaker 2: and Lot became too numerous. They had too much livestock

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Speaker 2: between the two of them. Their families grew, their herds grew,

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Speaker 2: and it became too much to support two families like

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Speaker 2: this on one piece of land. There was some quarreling

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Speaker 2: going on between their employees, the herdsman, and there was

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Speaker 2: some strife that was taking place because there just wasn't

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Speaker 2: enough land to sustain the wealth and the possessions that

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Speaker 2: they had acquired through the blessings of God. So Abraham said, Lot,

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Speaker 2: you know, let's don't ruin our relationship for sake of

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Speaker 2: a good relationship. Let's make a decision that we're just

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Speaker 2: gonna part ways right now, and Lot, you take the

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Speaker 2: first choice. Where do you want to go? Lot, If

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Speaker 2: you go to the right, I'll go to the left.

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Speaker 2: If you go to the left, I'll go to the right.

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Speaker 2: He said, whatever you want, Lot, you have first choice.

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Speaker 2: So Lot looked around, and the Bible describes this one

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Speaker 2: only picture it looking like Hawaii or something. They called

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Speaker 2: it the well watered garden of the Jordan. Well, Lot

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Speaker 2: saw that and it looked great to him, So he said, Abraham,

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Speaker 2: went on his way. Now, Abraham, he didn't walk into

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Speaker 2: He said, Abraham, I want you to look past the

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Speaker 3: Over your life. You will be a great nation.

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Speaker 2: He was saying, Abraham, get a picture, get a vision

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Speaker 2: the tone for Abraham's life. He was literally saying, Abraham,

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Speaker 3: By lifted eyes. See, you can't look at the dirt

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Speaker 3: You see, he could have looked at the dust. He

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Speaker 2: And you know what his choice was. He chose to

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Speaker 2: even where I am right now, whether it's good or bad,

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Speaker 2: God's got greater things in store for me. See, you

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Speaker 2: is saying, don't get comfortable. I made you for more.

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Speaker 2: Do you know Abraham's father got comfortable. He set out

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Speaker 2: accomplished what he accomplished by lifting his eyes and going

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Speaker 2: because he let that event in his life, that one

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Speaker 2: From then on, he kept looking downward just to collect coins.

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Speaker 3: But there was so much more in store for that man.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes we allow an event in our life to

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Speaker 2: you too will miss out on the great things that

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Speaker 3: He's in awesome God. Do you know Jesus had to

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Speaker 2: The Bible says when he was on the cross and

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Speaker 2: He lifted his eyes so that he could endure where

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Speaker 2: God is going to do great things through this. There

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Speaker 3: He lifted his eyes.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, you and I are going to

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Speaker 2: I said earlier that the theme of Abraham's life was

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Speaker 2: I thought it was very interesting. When Abraham went through

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Speaker 2: He didn't really know where he was going, but he

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Speaker 2: And the Bible says in Genesis eighteen twelve, it says

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Speaker 3: But I find it very interesting.

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Speaker 2: That he wasn't sitting out inside his tent complaining, saying, God,

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Speaker 3: No, he always had the lifted eyes.

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Speaker 2: He always looked to God even when he was reasoning

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Speaker 3: He was talking with lifted eyes.

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Speaker 2: And when he had lifted eyes, he saw the promises

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Speaker 2: God asked him to do something in obedience, something he

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Speaker 2: certainly didn't understand. He said, Abraham, I want you to

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Speaker 2: sacrifice him. But he thought, God, I've been waiting for

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Speaker 2: He built the fire, he tied up Isaac, and he was,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the whole time, asking God, God.

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Speaker 3: Where are you? Where are you?

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Speaker 2: Listen to what it says in Genesis twenty two thirteen,

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Speaker 2: it says, right before he was about to sacrifice Isaac,

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Speaker 2: him to replace his son Isaac Abraham, when.

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Speaker 3: He lifted his eyes, always found the provision of God.

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Speaker 2: Always saw God's hand of miracles. He always knew if

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Speaker 3: His eyes, he would see God.

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Speaker 2: Do great and mighty things. Psalm one twenty one says,

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Speaker 2: I lift up my eyes to the heels. Where does

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Speaker 2: At those mountains around Jerusalem. He knew the blessings of

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Speaker 3: Do not look at the.

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Speaker 2: Dirt in your life, but realize beyond that is greater heights,

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