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Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you

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

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Speaker 5: something funny and I heard about this minister that died,

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Speaker 5: and he was standing in line at.

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Speaker 4: The pearly gates.

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Speaker 5: The man in front of him was dressed in a

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Speaker 5: loud T shirt, sunglasses, and blue jeans. Saint Peter asking

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Speaker 5: what's your name? He said, I'm Joe Cohen, taxicab driver,

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Speaker 4: Peter checked his.

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Speaker 5: List and handed him a gold staff silk robe.

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Speaker 4: Said welcome to Heaven. The minister stepped up.

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Speaker 5: He said, I'm Reverend Joseph Snow, pastor of Saint Mary's Cathedral.

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Speaker 5: Peter checked his list, handed him a wooden staff and

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Speaker 4: He said, hey, that's not right.

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Speaker 5: The taxicab driver got a gold staff and this is

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Speaker 4: Peter said, sir, up here, we work by results.

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Speaker 5: When you each people slept, but when he drove people prayed.

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Speaker 5: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about generational blessings. Every right

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Speaker 5: and integrity, being your best, helping others, those are seeds

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Speaker 5: that will not only make your life fuller and more rewarding,

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Speaker 5: Relatives to do great things in life because of me,

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Speaker 5: And we hear a lot about the generational curse, but

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Speaker 5: there's something called a generational blessing. The scripture talks about

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Speaker 5: how you can store up mercy.

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Speaker 5: I know I am where I am today in part

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Speaker 5: as a young man he had lost his way in life.

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Speaker 5: a lot of bad breaks. His school financing didn't go through,

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Speaker 5: you keep believing God has great things in your future. Today,

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Speaker 5: this man is a very well respected, successful surgeon. He

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Speaker 5: stopped by the church and said, Joel, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 5: used to attend my father's Thanksgiving conferences here at the church.

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Speaker 5: This young man was just getting started. He was learning

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Speaker 5: used to listen to his CDs be so inspired. That's

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Speaker 5: dad didn't reap that harvest his son did. There are

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Speaker 5: it for your children, for your grandchildren. It's a generational blessing. See,

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Speaker 5: you didn't get to where you are by yourself. Somebody prayed,

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Speaker 4: You thought you were lucky. It was a coincidence. No,

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Speaker 5: You had a grandfather that was always helping people, a

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Speaker 5: great grandfather you never met, but he sacrificed, he persevered.

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Speaker 5: Now you're reaping from some of those seeds. The scripture

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Speaker 5: talks about how having a godly heritage is better than

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Speaker 5: having great wealth. You can leave your children money, cars, houses,

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Speaker 4: But when you leave them a godly heritage, when you.

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Speaker 5: Model a life of excellence and integrity that's worth more

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Speaker 5: than any material thing you could ever leave, then God's

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Speaker 5: blessing on their life will cause them to go further

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Speaker 4: They had all the money in the world.

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Speaker 4: People will be attracted to you. You'll look up and think,

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Speaker 5: You stepped in to a generational blessing. In the Old Testament,

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Speaker 5: Joshua and the Israelites were fighting a battle with the Amalekites.

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Speaker 5: That's why I'm blessed Joel, And yes, that's true in part,

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Speaker 5: that good break, that promotion, that new house, not because

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Speaker 5: Now you're reaping the benefits they won so that you

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Speaker 4: Every time you help others.

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Speaker 5: It may be for your children, grandchildren, or even years

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Speaker 5: God's goodness because.

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Speaker 4: Of the way you lived.

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Speaker 5: The Book of Hebrews, it talks about how a man

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Speaker 5: by the name of Levi paid tithes and offerings while

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Speaker 5: he was in his grandfather's loins. In other words, before

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Speaker 5: he was born, before he showed up, God credited tithes

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Speaker 5: I have a little notebook that my grandfather kept a

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Speaker 5: record of all of his giving for over fifty years.

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Speaker 5: He wrote down every gift you can read nineteen sixty three,

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Speaker 5: Somebody went before me that was a giver. Now God

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Speaker 5: is honoring him by honoring me. I can say, thank you, Granddaddy,

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Speaker 5: Thank your grandmother. You paid the price. Now I'm being blessed.

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Speaker 5: She raised five of us kids growing up, and my

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Speaker 5: I thought about how many thousands of hot meals she

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Speaker 4: Well, you say, Joel, this all.

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Speaker 5: Sounds good, but I don't know any family members as

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Speaker 5: far back as I can see that, Honored God, I

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Speaker 5: don't think this is going to happen for me.

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Speaker 4: Now, you could be the first. God raised you up

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Speaker 4: to get it started. Here's the beauty. The one that

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Speaker 5: Gets paid back for everything that should have been yours.

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Speaker 4: Now, don't settle for things that you know are holding

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Speaker 5: Addictions, compromising, taking the easy way out be a difference maker,

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Speaker 5: draw the line in the sand and say that's it.

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Speaker 5: This is a new day.

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Speaker 4: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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Speaker 5: The Old Testament, it talks about the God of Abraham,

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Speaker 5: Isaac and Jacob. They understood the power of the generational blessing.

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Speaker 5: There's something significant about three generations honoring God. The scripture says,

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Speaker 5: a threefold chord cannot be broken. If you can get

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Speaker 5: your father and your son along with yourself, or your

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Speaker 5: mother and your grandmother. When there's three in a row,

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Speaker 5: that blessing is multiplied.

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Speaker 4: My father was raised.

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Speaker 5: In a family that didn't know anything about God. They

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Speaker 5: were good, hardworking people, like I mentioned, but he didn't

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Speaker 4: Of spiritual upbringing.

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Speaker 5: But at the age of seventeen, walking home from a

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Speaker 5: nightclub at two o'clock in the morning, my dad made

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Speaker 4: I'm going to give my life to Christ.

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Speaker 5: He was the first one in our immediate family to

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Speaker 5: honoring God because.

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Speaker 4: Of the decision he made.

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Speaker 5: I can now say he's the God of John Ostein

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Speaker 5: the God of joel Osteine and of my son, the

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Speaker 5: God of Jonathan Osteine. When there are three in a row,

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Speaker 5: that's a powerful thing. When you did favor, when you

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Speaker 5: did a breakthrough, you can say God, my father honors you,

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Speaker 4: That gets God's attention.

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Speaker 5: Now you may have to start this for your family

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Speaker 5: like my father did, or your job may be to keep.

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Speaker 4: It going for your family. Your parents and grandparents honored God.

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Speaker 5: Are you going to break it? Are you going to

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Speaker 5: make it more difficult on your children? Don't drop the ball.

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Speaker 5: Too much is at stake. They work too hard to

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Speaker 5: get you to where you are. With the decisions you make,

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Speaker 5: your children, future generations are either going to be better

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Speaker 5: off further down the road, or they're going to have

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Speaker 5: to struggle and try to overcome things that.

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Speaker 4: You can defeat. Right now, you have the power to

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Speaker 4: put a stop to anything that's holding you back.

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Speaker 5: No addictions too strong for you, no enemy is too powerful,

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Speaker 5: no obstacle is too high. You have the most powerful

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Speaker 5: force in the universe on the inside.

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Speaker 4: Now take a stand for your family.

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Speaker 5: Somebody did it for you, just like Moses held up

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Speaker 5: his hands for Joshua. Hold up your hands so that

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Speaker 5: somebody else can win. The psalm is said, our life

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Speaker 5: is like a mist. We're here for a moment, then

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Speaker 5: we're gone. You can't afford to put this off. This

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Speaker 5: is the time to step into your destiny. Your relatives

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Speaker 5: are cheering you on, saying, you go, girl, you go boy.

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Speaker 4: Make me proud. Do something great, Give it your best. Now.

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Speaker 5: I know many of you have honored God. You've been faithful.

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Speaker 5: You've seen the latter rain, but you haven't seen anything yet.

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Speaker 5: God is about to release the former rain, the increase,

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Speaker 5: the favor, the good breaks that's been stored up in

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Speaker 5: your family's account. I believe and declare generational blessings are

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Speaker 5: coming your way. Get ready for increase, Get ready for

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Speaker 5: new levels. Get ready for the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 4: In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say him in today?

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