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Speaker 3: all right, Hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 3: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 3: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about staying open

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Speaker 3: at a new gate. They said, peanuts. We could never

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Speaker 3: not like the taste of peanuts. Those crops took off

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Speaker 3: made more money in several months than they normally made

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Speaker 3: They stuck with peas. They went on to produce more

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Speaker 3: peanuts than any country in the world. Friends, God has

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Speaker 3: your future. What you may think is a setback is

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Speaker 3: the fact that the bowl weevils did not like the

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Speaker 3: has some way to prosper me, some way to heal us,

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Speaker 3: when things don't work out, just remind yourself. These bowl

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Speaker 3: weavils may be causing me some problems, they may not

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Speaker 3: even go away, But really I'm not worried about it.

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Speaker 3: I know they can't touch my harvest. God has given

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Speaker 3: office that always gets on your nerves, annoys you. Next

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Speaker 3: time you see him, just think to yourself, he just

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Speaker 3: us how God's plan is better than our plan. Had

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Speaker 3: have never tried peanuts. They would have just kept producing

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Speaker 3: out on the abundance that should have been theirs. When

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Speaker 3: you're facing adversity, that set back, that disappointment, you don't

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Speaker 3: know where it's taken you. You've heard the saying when

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Speaker 3: you're down to nothing, God is up to something. When

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Speaker 3: it looks like your crops are being eaten, up. God

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Speaker 3: God is in complete control. He has a way even

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Speaker 3: when we don't see away. Here's the key. Had those

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Speaker 3: farmers not been open for something new and been willing

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Speaker 3: to reinvent themselves, they could still be sitting around saying,

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Speaker 3: just my love too bad for me. A little insect

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Speaker 3: When one dream dies, dream another dream, try something else.

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Speaker 3: If you hold your rod up and the rivers don't part,

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Speaker 3: start walking toward the waters, God has another plan. Be

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Speaker 3: of past victories. God has new victories out in front

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