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Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you
Speaker 5: again for coming out. And I like to start with
Speaker 5: something funny and I heard about this minister that died,
Speaker 5: and he was standing in line at.
Speaker 4: The pearly gates.
Speaker 5: The man in front of him was dressed in a
Speaker 5: loud T shirt, sunglasses, and blue jeans. Saint Peter asking
Speaker 5: what's your name? He said, I'm Joe Cohen, taxicab driver,
Speaker 5: New York City.
Speaker 4: Peter checked his.
Speaker 5: List and handed him a gold staff silk robe.
Speaker 4: Said welcome to Heaven. The minister stepped up.
Speaker 5: He said, I'm Reverend Joseph Snow, pastor of Saint Mary's Cathedral.
Speaker 5: Peter checked his list, handed him a wooden staff and
Speaker 5: cotton robe.
Speaker 4: He said, hey, that's not right.
Speaker 5: The taxicab driver got a gold staff and this is
Speaker 5: all I got.
Speaker 4: Peter said, sir, up here, we work by results.
Speaker 5: When you each people slept, but when he drove people prayed.
Speaker 5: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.
Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind
Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 5: to talk to you today about generational blessings. Every right
Speaker 5: choice you make, you're making it easier on those that
Speaker 5: come after you. When you live a life of excellence
Speaker 5: and integrity, being your best, helping others, those are seeds
Speaker 5: that will not only make your life fuller and more rewarding,
Speaker 5: but your children and grandchildren will be better off because
Speaker 5: of the way you lived. No person lives or dies
Speaker 5: unto himself. The choices you are making will affect your
Speaker 5: family line for generations to come.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I want my.
Speaker 5: Relatives to do great things in life because of me,
Speaker 5: not in spite of me. Our children have enough things
Speaker 5: to overcome without having to.
Speaker 4: Deal with our negative baggage.
Speaker 5: Your life can either be a stepping stone for your
Speaker 5: family to go higher or a stumbling block that causes
Speaker 5: them to struggle. Negative things may have been passed down
Speaker 5: to you, but God raised you up to put an
Speaker 5: end to it.
Speaker 4: You can be a difference maker.
Speaker 5: And we hear a lot about the generational curse, but
Speaker 5: there's something called a generational blessing. The scripture talks about
Speaker 5: how you can store up mercy.
Speaker 4: For your children and future generations.
Speaker 5: I know I am where I am today in part
Speaker 5: because of the way my parents and grandparents have lived.
Speaker 5: I am reaping a harvest from seeds that they sowed.
Speaker 5: Met a man a while back, and he told how
Speaker 5: as a young man he had lost his way in life.
Speaker 5: He was living on the streets downtown. My father came
Speaker 5: out of a hotel and saw him sitting there and
Speaker 5: went over to talk to him. This young man had
Speaker 5: a dream of becoming a medical doctor, but he had
Speaker 5: a lot of bad breaks. His school financing didn't go through,
Speaker 5: and he was still hoping to receive a scholarship. My
Speaker 5: father handed him a one hundred dollars bill and said,
Speaker 5: you keep believing God has great things in your future. Today,
Speaker 5: this man is a very well respected, successful surgeon. He
Speaker 5: stopped by the church and said, Joel, I wouldn't be
Speaker 5: where I am without your father.
Speaker 4: Now. I never got to tell.
Speaker 5: Him thank you, but at least I wanted to tell
Speaker 5: you thanks. He handed me a donation for the church,
Speaker 5: a significant amount. When I turned and walked away, under
Speaker 5: my breath, I said, thank you, daddy. Is there anything
Speaker 5: you're doing that's going to cause your children to say
Speaker 5: thank you, daddy? Are you so in seeds of kindness?
Speaker 5: Are you being a blessing? Are you putting an end
Speaker 5: to negative things that have been passed down? Back in
Speaker 5: the late nineteen seventies, there was a young minister that
Speaker 5: used to attend my father's Thanksgiving conferences here at the church.
Speaker 5: This young man was just getting started. He was learning
Speaker 5: how to pastor, and he really loved my father. He
Speaker 5: listened to all of my dad's tapes and learned so much. Well,
Speaker 5: some twenty years later, my father went to be with
Speaker 5: the Lord. Now I was trying to learn how to minister,
Speaker 5: and this was also new to me. Well, that young
Speaker 5: man was one of my favorite ministers, Jensen Franklin. I
Speaker 5: used to listen to his CDs be so inspired. That's
Speaker 5: what helped me to get started. My father sewed into
Speaker 5: his life. Now he was sowing into my life. My
Speaker 5: dad didn't reap that harvest his son did. There are
Speaker 5: some seeds that you sow, some people that you're helping.
Speaker 5: You won't reap the fullness of that harvest. God designed
Speaker 5: it for your children, for your grandchildren. It's a generational blessing. See,
Speaker 5: you didn't get to where you are by yourself. Somebody prayed,
Speaker 5: somebody made sacrifices. Somebody so deceed of kindness and you
Speaker 5: got that good break.
Speaker 4: You thought you were lucky. It was a coincidence. No,
Speaker 4: it happened because you had a praying mother.
Speaker 5: You had a grandfather that was always helping people, a
Speaker 5: great grandfather you never met, but he sacrificed, he persevered.
Speaker 5: Now you're reaping from some of those seeds. The scripture
Speaker 5: talks about how having a godly heritage is better than
Speaker 5: having great wealth. You can leave your children money, cars, houses,
Speaker 5: that's great, I'm all for that.
Speaker 4: But when you leave them a godly heritage, when you.
Speaker 5: Model a life of excellence and integrity that's worth more
Speaker 5: than any material thing you could ever leave, then God's
Speaker 5: blessing on their life will cause them to go further
Speaker 5: than if.
Speaker 4: They had all the money in the world.
Speaker 5: You can have less resources, but with this generational blessing,
Speaker 5: opportunity increase the right.
Speaker 4: People will be attracted to you. You'll look up and think,
Speaker 4: how did I get to where I am?
Speaker 5: I didn't have the connections, the resources, the talent.
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 5: You stepped in to a generational blessing. In the Old Testament,
Speaker 5: Joshua and the Israelites were fighting a battle with the Amalekites.
Speaker 5: Moses was up on a hill holding up his rod
Speaker 5: in the air. As long as his hands were up,
Speaker 5: the Israelites were winning. When he got tired and put
Speaker 5: his hands down, the Amalekite started winning. A couple of
Speaker 5: men noticed what was going on, and they helped him
Speaker 5: hold his hands in the air. But what I want
Speaker 5: us to see is Joshua was down there winning. He
Speaker 5: didn't realize the only reason he was winning is because
Speaker 5: Moses had his hands the air. If Moses hadn't done
Speaker 5: his part, the Israelites would have been defeated. It's easy
Speaker 5: to think, well, I'm successful because i'm smart. I have
Speaker 5: a good life because I work hard, because I'm talented.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm blessed Joel, And yes, that's true in part,
Speaker 5: But you didn't do it all on your own. You're
Speaker 5: smart because you have the wisdom of your father's It
Speaker 5: was passed down to you. You're talented because your mother
Speaker 5: and grandmother worked hard to develop their gifts. They took
Speaker 5: time to teach you to build your confidence. You got
Speaker 5: that good break, that promotion, that new house, not because
Speaker 5: those people just decided to be nice to you. Somebody
Speaker 5: in your family line honored God. Somebody you can't see
Speaker 5: is holding up their hands.
Speaker 4: It may have been one hundred years ago they stored
Speaker 4: up mercy.
Speaker 5: Now you're reaping the benefits they won so that you
Speaker 5: could win.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: My challenge to us is to live your life in
Speaker 5: such a way that you cause others to win. Every
Speaker 5: right choice you make, you're holding up your hands. Every
Speaker 5: time you resist temptation, You're winning for your children.
Speaker 4: Every time you help others.
Speaker 5: You come to church gives serve your storing up favor.
Speaker 5: It may be for your children, grandchildren, or even years
Speaker 5: down the road, somebody in your family line will see
Speaker 5: God's goodness because.
Speaker 4: Of the way you lived.
Speaker 5: The Book of Hebrews, it talks about how a man
Speaker 5: by the name of Levi paid tithes and offerings while
Speaker 5: he was in his grandfather's loins. In other words, before
Speaker 5: he was born, before he showed up, God credited tithes
Speaker 5: and offerings to him, all because his grandfather was a giver.
Speaker 4: When you give, God will not only.
Speaker 5: Bless you, but he will credit your children and your grandchildren.
Speaker 5: I have a little notebook that my grandfather kept a
Speaker 5: record of all of his giving for over fifty years.
Speaker 5: He wrote down every gift you can read nineteen sixty three,
Speaker 5: seven dollars to the Lakewood Building Fund, ten dollars to
Speaker 5: Central Baptist Church, on and on.
Speaker 4: No wonder, I'm blessed today, No wonder, I'm seeing God's favor.
Speaker 5: Somebody went before me that was a giver. Now God
Speaker 5: is honoring him by honoring me. I can say, thank you, Granddaddy,
Speaker 5: Thank your grandmother. You paid the price. Now I'm being blessed.
Speaker 5: My mother turned eighty one years old last week.
Speaker 4: She had her birthday.
Speaker 5: She raised five of us kids growing up, and my
Speaker 5: brother Paul. Course was like raising five extra kids. But
Speaker 5: I thought about how many thousands of hot meals she
Speaker 5: must have cooked for us. I mean, heating up those
Speaker 5: TV dinners was a lot of work. But we never
Speaker 5: left for school, seriously without having a hot breakfast, without
Speaker 5: having her pray for favor and protection over us every day.
Speaker 5: I saw my parents reading their Bible. Now all of
Speaker 5: us kids read our Bible. Our children don't leave without
Speaker 5: us praying the blessing over them. That generational blessing keeps
Speaker 5: getting passed down. I can say, thank you, Mother. We
Speaker 5: didn't get here by ourselves. God had people watching after
Speaker 5: you before you even showed up. While you were still
Speaker 5: in your mother's wound, doctors and nurses were taking care
Speaker 5: of you. Most likely, your parents believed and prayed many
Speaker 5: years before you were even conceived, waiting for you. You
Speaker 5: had grandparents and relatives that worked hard. They made sacrifices,
Speaker 5: knowing one day their granddaughter, their great grandson would show up.
Speaker 5: You are the answer to their prayer. You're living in
Speaker 5: the day they dreamed about. They wanted your life to
Speaker 5: be better. Now, don't take for granted the price that
Speaker 5: they paid them. You're experiencing generational blessings. How this should
Speaker 5: inspire us to be our best, to break free from
Speaker 5: things that are holding us back, to dream bigger, to
Speaker 5: see each day as a gift. They pass the baton
Speaker 5: to us. Let's not drop it. Let's not settle and
Speaker 5: live mediocre. Let's push forward. Let's take new ground. Let's
Speaker 5: break barriers that have held us back. You may not
Speaker 5: be able to see them, but right now, up in heaven,
Speaker 5: your relatives are cheering you on. In that great cloud
Speaker 5: of witnesses. There are parents, grandparents, generations that have gone
Speaker 5: before you. They're saying, go further, climb new mountains, set
Speaker 5: a new standard.
Speaker 4: This is your day, this is your time. All of
Speaker 4: what we are has been poured into you.
Speaker 5: Now, don't let the sacrifices they've made go to waste.
Speaker 4: Make them proud. They're watching you. My father dreamed of
Speaker 4: this building.
Speaker 5: He talked about how one day he was going to
Speaker 5: build a twenty thousand seat sanctuary. For over fifty years
Speaker 5: he and my mother served faithfully, but my dad was
Speaker 5: never able to build that sanctuary. When he went to
Speaker 5: be with the Lord, it looked like that dream had died.
Speaker 5: But when you honor God, when you live a life
Speaker 5: of faith, you are storing up.
Speaker 4: Favor for your children.
Speaker 5: Four years after Daddy died, we needed a larger auditorium.
Speaker 4: Things fell into place.
Speaker 5: We were able to acquire this building, the former Compact Center,
Speaker 5: And sometimes when I walk out here, I feel like
Speaker 5: I'm standing in my father's auditorium. All those years that
Speaker 5: he prayed, he believed, he served, he.
Speaker 4: Was storing up favor.
Speaker 5: God ordained him to lay the foundation and his sons
Speaker 5: to walk into it.
Speaker 4: God will always show you for than you can go.
Speaker 5: He will give you a vision that may not be
Speaker 5: able to be accomplished only in your lifetime. A generational vision.
Speaker 5: Some of the things you're dreaming about that you see
Speaker 5: through your eyes of faith. God put that in your
Speaker 5: heart so you could lay the foundation. Pray, believe, stretch,
Speaker 5: be your best, but don't get discouraged if it doesn't
Speaker 5: all come to pass.
Speaker 4: It's for your children.
Speaker 5: Just as you received generational blessings, favor and increase that
Speaker 5: you didn't work for, you were so in seeds for
Speaker 5: generational blessings.
Speaker 4: This is what happened with David. He had a dream
Speaker 4: to build the temple.
Speaker 5: He cut down the cedars of Lebanon, raise the funds,
Speaker 5: got everything lined up. But God said, David, no I
Speaker 5: put that dream in you to lay the foundation. I
Speaker 5: want your son Solomon to build it. David saw further
Speaker 5: than he could go. Solomon stepped into a generational blessing,
Speaker 5: and he built the temple. I don't know of anything
Speaker 5: that would make me any happier than to see my
Speaker 5: children go further than I've gone.
Speaker 4: To see them supersede anything that I've done.
Speaker 5: Every time you pray, believe, help others make sacrifices. That's
Speaker 5: being credited not only to your account, but to your
Speaker 5: children and your grandchildren. This is why the enemy fights
Speaker 5: our children so hard. He knows they're next in line
Speaker 5: for the blessing. Young people, you have a responsibility. Your parents,
Speaker 5: your grandparents, they worked hard. There are blessings they did
Speaker 5: not receive because God has them stored up for you.
Speaker 5: They've been accruing in your account, whether you're eight years
Speaker 5: old or eighty years old. Don't be lazy, indifferent, compromise.
Speaker 5: Your family work too hard for you to not take
Speaker 5: care of and appreciate what's coming your way. Some of
Speaker 5: them worked out in the fields. They weren't treated right.
Speaker 5: They went through great injustice, sleepless nights, made sacrifices that
Speaker 5: we don't have to make today. Don't take for granted
Speaker 5: the price that they paid. You have a responsibility to
Speaker 5: not just enjoy the blessing.
Speaker 4: But to go further.
Speaker 5: God's dream is that every generation increase. It's not enough
Speaker 5: to just settle where your parents and grandparents are.
Speaker 4: That's the easy way out.
Speaker 5: You have generations of wisdom, perseverance, hard work that's been
Speaker 5: passed down to you. After all, our ancestors made it
Speaker 5: without air conditioning, without smartphones, without beautiful buildings. Without the Internet,
Speaker 5: we have no excuse to not go further. When my
Speaker 5: father died, I took over the church. I was thirty
Speaker 5: six years old, and most pastors at that age would
Speaker 5: be trying to get their first building, trying to build
Speaker 5: their foundation.
Speaker 4: And I had friends that were pastors.
Speaker 5: And they were meeting in high school auditoriums had a
Speaker 5: couple hundred people. But my father put me forty years
Speaker 5: down the road. I didn't have to start from scratch.
Speaker 5: We already had an eight thousand seat sanctuary, thousands of
Speaker 5: people coming. Plus the church was debt free, and my
Speaker 5: dad left us plenty of funds in the bank. When
Speaker 5: we signed the original lease for this place, it was
Speaker 5: twelve million dollars. We were able to pay cash for
Speaker 5: that because of what my father had left. My dad
Speaker 5: was raised during the Great Depression. His father picked cotton
Speaker 5: for a living. His mother made ten cents an hour
Speaker 5: washing people's clothes. That's how they spent their lives, hard working,
Speaker 5: dedicated people. My father came out of such poverty and
Speaker 5: lack that he was very frugal, very conservative. He'd walked
Speaker 5: the halls of the office at the old church at night,
Speaker 5: make sure every light switch was turned off. If he
Speaker 5: saw a paper clip on the ground, he'd pick it up,
Speaker 5: not throw it away, put it on somebody's desk. But
Speaker 5: because of the sacrifices he made and the faithful members
Speaker 5: that gave generously back then, now we are sitting in
Speaker 5: this beautiful building.
Speaker 4: It's a generational blessing.
Speaker 5: When we first moved in back in two thousand and five,
Speaker 5: had pastor friends that wanted to come see it, and
Speaker 5: I was almost a little embarrassed. It's so big, so beautiful,
Speaker 5: and I was younger than most of them, and I
Speaker 5: didn't want it to seem like we were showing off,
Speaker 5: and so I would.
Speaker 4: Try to downplay it.
Speaker 5: One day I realized, number one, I'm not bragging on us,
Speaker 5: I'm bragging on the greatness of God. And number two,
Speaker 5: my parents and grandparents work too hard to downplay what
Speaker 5: God has done. They sacrificed too much, made ten cents
Speaker 5: an hour, pick cotton til their fingers bled, believed when
Speaker 5: they didn't see away, prayed for the funds.
Speaker 4: I've learned you don't have.
Speaker 5: To apologize for God's goodness where your blessings well, You
Speaker 5: too have family members that endured great hardships.
Speaker 4: They struggled so that your life could be better.
Speaker 5: A mom that sacrificed her dream so she could pour
Speaker 5: into you, or parents that didn't buy what they wanted
Speaker 5: so they could send you to college. A dad that
Speaker 5: worn't two jobs to make ends meet. Don't apologize for
Speaker 5: what God has done.
Speaker 4: Your relatives put blood, sweat.
Speaker 5: And tears to get you to where you are, where
Speaker 5: your blessings.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 5: See, sometimes it's like people come in at the end
Speaker 5: of the movie. They see you blessed prosper us, live
Speaker 5: in your dreams, and they judge you by where you
Speaker 5: are right there. The problem is they didn't see the
Speaker 5: first part of the movie. Well, you said, Joel, God's
Speaker 5: bless you with that church, you got that big ministry. Yes,
Speaker 5: but you didn't see my grandparents making ten cents an hour.
Speaker 5: You didn't see my father preaching the ninety people year
Speaker 5: after year in an old Rundown feed store. You didn't
Speaker 5: see my siblings and I sweeping out the church. As
Speaker 5: little kids, we used to come out and clean out
Speaker 5: the building. My father wasn't just the pastor. He was
Speaker 5: the janitor, the landscape or the sound man, the secretary.
Speaker 4: When you have ninety people. You do it all.
Speaker 5: Isaiah said, God will give you beauty for your ashes.
Speaker 4: Sometimes people see.
Speaker 5: Your beauty and they get jealous, envious. I don't think
Speaker 5: they deserve that, but I'm convinced if they ever saw
Speaker 5: your ashes, they would be happy for your beauty. If
Speaker 5: they could see how the generation before you sacrificed, gave
Speaker 5: when they didn't have much, came when they didn't feel
Speaker 5: like it, helped others when they really needed help. If
Speaker 5: they could see your ashes, they would celebrate what God
Speaker 5: has done in your life.
Speaker 4: The Book of.
Speaker 5: Joel talks about how we should receive the former rain
Speaker 5: and the latter rain. The latter rain is God blessing
Speaker 5: you because you're using your gifts and talents, making the
Speaker 5: most of your opportunities.
Speaker 4: You're doing your part. That's the latter rain.
Speaker 5: But it's time to start believing for the former rain.
Speaker 5: That's all the blessings that are stored up in your
Speaker 5: family's account. That's the favor that should have been your relatives,
Speaker 5: but they never saw it. I know right now I
Speaker 5: am being paid back for my grandparents working so hard
Speaker 5: but receiving so little. They didn't get what they deserved.
Speaker 5: But God is a God of justice. Now their grandson
Speaker 5: and their grandchildren are receiving what belonged to them. You
Speaker 5: two had family members that honored God. You may not
Speaker 5: have ever met them, but you had pepeople that stored
Speaker 5: up mercy, favor, honor, increase it's been accruing in your account.
Speaker 5: Our attitude should be Lord, I want to thank you
Speaker 5: that you're releasing everything that belongs to my family. Deuteronomy,
Speaker 5: it says, may the Lord, God of your fathers make
Speaker 5: you a thousand times more than you are.
Speaker 4: Notice the God of your fathers.
Speaker 5: When you have a godly heritage, God can increase you
Speaker 5: in ways you've never imagined. If you had a praying mother,
Speaker 5: you should thank God every day. If you had grandparents
Speaker 5: that took you to church when you were grown up,
Speaker 5: you may not have liked it, thought is wasting your time.
Speaker 5: The truth is it was storing up favor in your account.
Speaker 5: Those are the seeds God's going to use to increase you.
Speaker 4: A thousand times more than you are. In the coming days.
Speaker 5: You're going to stumble into blessings, stumble into favor. You think,
Speaker 5: where did that come from? I didn't deserve that. That's
Speaker 5: the former reign that's God releasing generational blessings. You're going
Speaker 5: to have wisdom beyond your years. People are gonna ask,
Speaker 5: how do you get so smart?
Speaker 4: How does she know that?
Speaker 5: It's not just the books, not just the university. That's
Speaker 5: the wisdom of your Father's helping you to go to
Speaker 5: a new level of your destiny. You're going to accomplish
Speaker 5: dreams that didn't originate with you, like I did with
Speaker 5: this facility, increase and favor because a loved one laid
Speaker 5: the groundwork.
Speaker 4: Those are the houses that you didn't have to build,
Speaker 4: the vineyards that you didn't have to plan.
Speaker 5: God has generational blessings stored up that he's about to
Speaker 5: release in your life.
Speaker 4: Well, you say, Joel, this all.
Speaker 5: Sounds good, but I don't know any family members as
Speaker 5: far back as I can see that, Honored God, I
Speaker 5: don't think this is going to happen for me.
Speaker 4: Now, you could be the first. God raised you up
Speaker 4: to get it started. Here's the beauty. The one that
Speaker 4: breaks the curse.
Speaker 5: Gets paid back for everything that should have been yours.
Speaker 4: Now, don't settle for things that you know are holding
Speaker 4: you back.
Speaker 5: Addictions, compromising, taking the easy way out be a difference maker,
Speaker 5: draw the line in the sand and say that's it.
Speaker 5: This is a new day.
Speaker 4: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Speaker 5: The Old Testament, it talks about the God of Abraham,
Speaker 5: Isaac and Jacob. They understood the power of the generational blessing.
Speaker 5: There's something significant about three generations honoring God. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: a threefold chord cannot be broken. If you can get
Speaker 5: your father and your son along with yourself, or your
Speaker 5: mother and your grandmother. When there's three in a row,
Speaker 5: that blessing is multiplied.
Speaker 4: My father was raised.
Speaker 5: In a family that didn't know anything about God. They
Speaker 5: were good, hardworking people, like I mentioned, but he didn't
Speaker 5: have any kind.
Speaker 4: Of spiritual upbringing.
Speaker 5: But at the age of seventeen, walking home from a
Speaker 5: nightclub at two o'clock in the morning, my dad made
Speaker 5: the decision, I'm not going to live like this anymore.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give my life to Christ.
Speaker 5: He was the first one in our immediate family to
Speaker 5: honor God. Now all of his children and grandchildren are
Speaker 5: honoring God because.
Speaker 4: Of the decision he made.
Speaker 5: I can now say he's the God of John Ostein
Speaker 5: the God of joel Osteine and of my son, the
Speaker 5: God of Jonathan Osteine. When there are three in a row,
Speaker 5: that's a powerful thing. When you did favor, when you
Speaker 5: did a breakthrough, you can say God, my father honors you,
Speaker 5: I honor you, my son honors you.
Speaker 4: That gets God's attention.
Speaker 5: Now you may have to start this for your family
Speaker 5: like my father did, or your job may be to keep.
Speaker 4: It going for your family. Your parents and grandparents honored God.
Speaker 5: Are you going to break it? Are you going to
Speaker 5: make it more difficult on your children? Don't drop the ball.
Speaker 5: Too much is at stake. They work too hard to
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Speaker 5: your children, future generations are either going to be better
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Speaker 4: You can defeat. Right now, you have the power to
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Speaker 5: No addictions too strong for you, no enemy is too powerful,
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Speaker 4: Now take a stand for your family.
Speaker 5: Somebody did it for you, just like Moses held up
Speaker 5: his hands for Joshua. Hold up your hands so that
Speaker 5: somebody else can win. The psalm is said, our life
Speaker 5: is like a mist. We're here for a moment, then
Speaker 5: we're gone. You can't afford to put this off. This
Speaker 5: is the time to step into your destiny. Your relatives
Speaker 5: are cheering you on, saying, you go, girl, you go boy.
Speaker 4: Make me proud. Do something great, Give it your best. Now.
Speaker 5: I know many of you have honored God. You've been faithful.
Speaker 5: You've seen the latter rain, but you haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 5: God is about to release the former rain, the increase,
Speaker 5: the favor, the good breaks that's been stored up in
Speaker 5: your family's account. I believe and declare generational blessings are
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Speaker 5: new levels. Get ready for the fullness of your destiny.
Speaker 4: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say him in today?
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Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you
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