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Speaker 5: again for coming out. I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 5: And I heard about this pastor. He was new in town.

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Speaker 5: He was going door to door inviting people to come

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Speaker 5: to his church. And he knocked on this one door,

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Speaker 5: and he could tell someone was home, but nobody would

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Speaker 5: wrote on the back the scripture reference Revelation three twenty,

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Speaker 5: left it on the door. The next Sunday after service,

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Speaker 5: and Usher handed him the same card. Under what he

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Speaker 5: had written was the scripture reference Genesis three ten. Here's

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Speaker 5: what they say. The pastor's words, Revelation three twenty. Behold,

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Speaker 5: I stand at the door and knock. If anyone answers,

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Speaker 5: I will come in. The reply was Genesis three ten.

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Speaker 5: It says I heard your voice, but I was afraid

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Speaker 3: Hold up your.

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Speaker 5: Bible, say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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

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

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Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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

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Speaker 5: about keeping your vision in front of you. Studies tell

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Speaker 5: us that we move toward what we consistently see. You

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Speaker 5: it's symbolic, that reminds you of what God has promised.

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Speaker 5: If you're single and have a desire to get married,

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Speaker 5: comes from a small town, didn't have any connections, no invitations,

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Speaker 5: His faith is being increased, his vision is being enlarged.

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Speaker 5: You should have pictures up that inspire you, scripture, verses

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Speaker 5: Whatever you're believing for, whatever you're dreaming about, keeps something

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Speaker 5: Why was it important that he keeped the headstone in

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Speaker 5: saying to him, I'm still on the throne. I'm going

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Speaker 5: Couple that had a son that was not doing right

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Speaker 5: They went and bought a Bible and had his name

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Speaker 5: Every time they saw it, they thought, he's coming back.

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Speaker 5: Kevin is a twin Growing up, he loved having a

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Speaker 5: When he saw those two diapers, something came alive on

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Speaker 3: Month after month, he saw those diapers again and again.

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Speaker 5: Something long enough, it gets into your subconscious mind and

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Speaker 5: Why don't you go buy a baby's outfit, put it

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Speaker 5: She just kept thanking God that her baby was on

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Speaker 5: If you're believing to go to a certain college, buy

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Speaker 5: Few years later, my father named the church Lakewood International

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Speaker 5: Every week when those ninety members saw that sign again

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Speaker 5: And international outreach center touching the world? Growing up, my

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Speaker 3: All the odds are against you. The truth is the

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Speaker 5: One touch of God's favor he can take you from

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Speaker 5: the back to the front, from working at the business

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Speaker 5: medicine like my mother, to being healthy and whole thirty

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Speaker 5: years later. Everything that doesn't line up with what God

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Speaker 5: put in your heart, see it as subject to change.

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Speaker 5: That child that's off course, he's subject to change. Being

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Speaker 5: lonely is subject to change. Not getting any good breaks

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Speaker 5: that is subject to change, see it as temporary. Keep

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Speaker 5: is what Abraham had to do. He'd just gone through

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Speaker 5: a major disappointment. He's basically having to start all over.

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Speaker 5: He lost everything he had worked for. His nephew Lot

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Speaker 5: chose the best part of the land, and he had

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Speaker 5: to move on. I'm sure he was down, discouraged, thinking God,

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Speaker 5: this isn't fair. How come this happened to me? God said, Abraham,

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Speaker 5: look up from where you are. For all the land

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Speaker 5: that you can see, I will give it to you.

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Speaker 5: Notice the principle, whatever you can see, God will give

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Speaker 5: it to you.

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Speaker 3: The reason some people.

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Speaker 5: Are stuck is that got their head down, focused on

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Speaker 5: their problems, what didn't work out?

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Speaker 3: Who hurt them?

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Speaker 5: God is saying, look up from where you are, don't

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Speaker 5: sit around depressed, discourage, get a new vision for your life.

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Speaker 3: Put some new pictures in front of you.

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Speaker 5: All that you can see, God says He'll give it

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Speaker 5: to you. I read a story about a gentleman by

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Speaker 3: As a younger man, he saw a.

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Speaker 5: Magazine article about the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.

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Speaker 5: The title was the most famous hotel in the world.

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Speaker 3: It showed these big, beautiful pictures. He had never seen

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Speaker 3: At that time, it was impossible.

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Speaker 5: He could barely pay his rent, just coming out of

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Speaker 5: the Great Depression, had no connections. He could have said, God,

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Speaker 5: you've got the wrong person. Could never happen for me.

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Speaker 5: But he was bold enough to let that seed take root.

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Speaker 5: He got some scissors and he cut out the picture

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Speaker 3: Every day he saw that.

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Speaker 5: Picture for a year, five years, ten years. Didn't look

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Speaker 5: like it would ever happen, but he was moving toward

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Speaker 5: that vision. When he was in New York City, he

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Speaker 5: would walk around the property, praying, believing, dreaming, never told anybody,

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Speaker 5: just letting the seed take root. Eighteen years later he

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Speaker 5: was able to purchase two hundred and fifty thousand shares

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Speaker 5: of the Waldorf Corporation. He ended up owning the most

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Speaker 5: famous hotel in the world. Some of you today think

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Speaker 5: that your dream is too big, that your difficulties are

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Speaker 5: too great, it's been too long. But God is saying,

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Speaker 5: I'm still on the throne. I'm still going to bring

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Speaker 5: it to pass, just like with mister Hilton. If you

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Speaker 5: will keep a big vision in front of you, God

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Speaker 5: is going to do something big in your life. He

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Speaker 5: is going to release his favor like you've never seen before.

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Speaker 5: What you thought was over and done, God is still

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Speaker 5: going to do what looked impossible, like it was over

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Speaker 5: your head. God is going to suddenly cause things to

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Speaker 5: fall into place, giving you the influence, the connections, the favor,

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Speaker 3: Now, don't stop believing.

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Speaker 5: Every time you see your vision, you keep thinking God.

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Speaker 3: That it's on its way.

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Speaker 5: If you will do this, God is going to supersize

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Speaker 3: It's going to be bigger than you imagined.

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Speaker 5: He's going to take you places you could not go

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Speaker 5: He's going to do what medicine cannot do.

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Speaker 3: You need to get ready.

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Speaker 5: Every dream, every promise, every goal God's placed in your heart.

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Speaker 5: I believe in declare it will come to pass in Jesus' name.

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