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Speaker 7: I heard about this blonde lady. That's what gets me

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Speaker 7: your Bible. I'm gonna need a ride home today. Say

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Speaker 7: It's only a test. We all face situations that are uncomfortable.

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Speaker 7: These tests bring delight impurities in our character that we

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Speaker 7: God, I shouldn't have to put up with this grouchy boss.

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Speaker 7: It doesn't affect you. They didn't change, but you changed. You.

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Speaker 5: Let God refine you. What happened. Your quality came up higher.

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Speaker 7: Every time you overlook an offense, you're passing the test.

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Speaker 5: You and mold you into who he wants you to be.

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Speaker 7: Now I've learned God is more interested in changing me

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Speaker 7: Now? God is not going to remove it. He wants

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Speaker 7: He'd come into my room and say, Daddy, fix my

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Speaker 7: pull it back just right. We told him morning, noon,

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Speaker 7: and night how much we loved him, how proud we

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Speaker 7: were of him, how he was going to do great

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Speaker 7: things in life, and that's important.

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Speaker 5: We should do that as parents.

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Speaker 7: But now that he's seventeen, I don't cut his food

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Speaker 7: up for him anymore.

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Speaker 5: He won't let me touch his hair.

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Speaker 7: He doesn't have to hear every tear minutes how much

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Speaker 7: we love him, how much we're proud of him. For

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Speaker 7: him to still feel good about himself, he's growing up.

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Speaker 7: It's the same way with our heavenly Father. We start

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Speaker 7: off like little babies. God will make sure somebody's there

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Speaker 7: to encourage us, somebody to tell us how.

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Speaker 5: Loved and valuable and needed we are.

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Speaker 7: There's a season where it seems like everything falls into place.

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Speaker 7: Your prayers are getting answered, left and right. A friend

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Speaker 7: calls it just the right time, gives you a word

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Speaker 7: in due season. You hope in the Bible and read

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Speaker 7: just what you need to hear. You know God is real.

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Speaker 7: You see his hand again and again, and that's great

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Speaker 7: for a season. But the truth is it won't last forever.

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Speaker 7: God won't let us stay babies. There'll be a point

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Speaker 7: where God removes the pampering. If he didn't, it would

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Speaker 7: hinder our growth. I could still be cutting Jonathan's food

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Speaker 7: up for him, but that would be doing him a disservice.

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Speaker 7: And if you're not getting what you used to the

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Speaker 7: approval from another person, your prayers don't get answered the.

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Speaker 5: First day like they did before.

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Speaker 7: This may sound strange, but take that as a compliment.

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Speaker 7: God is growing you up, He's maturing you, getting you

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Speaker 7: ready for the amazing future he has in store. This

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Speaker 7: scripture talks about how as long as we remain a child,

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Speaker 7: will never receive our inheritance, will never reach our full potential.

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Speaker 7: But as you grow up, as you let God make

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Speaker 7: you and mold you, then those seeds of greatness God's

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Speaker 7: placed on the inside, they're going.

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Speaker 5: To take root and start to flourish.

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Speaker 7: It's funny how when we first start off, how many

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Speaker 7: times have we opened our Bible just randomly closed our

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Speaker 7: eyes and pointed to a scripture and there's something just

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Speaker 7: what we.

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Speaker 5: Needed to hear, just spoke to us.

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Speaker 7: You go a few years and start to grow up

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Speaker 7: and open that Bible randomly point and it says repent,

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Speaker 7: you brew the vipers. That's when you know you're growing up.

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Speaker 7: Now pass the test. Learn to encourage yourself.

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Speaker 5: Stay faithful even.

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Speaker 7: Though your prayers aren't being answered on your timetable. Don't

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Speaker 7: rely on other people for their approval, their validation. Get

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Speaker 7: up every morning and say, Father, I want to thank

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Speaker 7: you that you approve me. You made me in your image,

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Speaker 7: you breathed your life into me. You said I'm a masterpiece.

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Speaker 7: I'm valuable, I'm approved, So God, I don't need other

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Speaker 7: people's approval.

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Speaker 5: I have your approval.

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Speaker 7: The more we grow, the more we mature, the less

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Speaker 7: and less dependent we become on what other people think,

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Speaker 7: or on what other people do or don't give us.

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Speaker 5: We get it from our heavenly Father.

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Speaker 7: And some of you today are frustrated because a prayer

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Speaker 7: is not being answered, another person is not giving you

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Speaker 7: the approval They used to you kind of feel like

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Speaker 7: that God has forgotten all about you. But it's just

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Speaker 7: the opposite. God is closely watching you. This is a

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Speaker 7: test of your quality. God wants to see what you're

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Speaker 7: made of. This is not the time to get discouraged.

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Speaker 7: It's not the time to think what's the use It's

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Speaker 7: never going to change.

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Speaker 5: I'm stuck here. No, it's only a test.

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Speaker 7: This is the time, more than ever, to dig your

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Speaker 7: heels in and sow a radical seed of obedience. Do

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Speaker 7: the right thing in spite of what somebody is not

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Speaker 7: giving you. Keep praying even though it feels like God

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Speaker 7: went on vacation, Keep believing, even though your mind is

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Speaker 7: telling you it's never going to change. If you'll do that,

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Speaker 7: you'll pass that test. You will see that radical harvest.

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Speaker 7: That's what it says in James. When we pass the test,

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Speaker 7: you will receive a victor's crown of life. Friends, there

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Speaker 7: is a crown of victory waiting for you. The test

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Speaker 7: You keep moving forward. Don't fight against everything that's hard.

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Speaker 7: Let God make you and mould you.

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Speaker 5: Work with God.

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Speaker 7: Be willing to make adjustments, make improvements. God's always giving

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Speaker 7: us opportunities to come up higher as you grow. As

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Speaker 7: you mature, God is going to release the inheritance that

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Speaker 7: he has laid up for you. It's like nothing you've

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Speaker 7: seen before. God's going to release favor in a greater way.

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Speaker 7: You're going to come into supernatural opportunities.

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Speaker 5: Problems that have dogged you.

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Speaker 7: For years are going to suddenly turn around. Loved Ones

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Speaker 7: that wouldn't have anything to do with the Lord are

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Speaker 7: going to suddenly come back home. Dreams you've been praying

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Speaker 7: about are going to suddenly come to pass.

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Speaker 5: Because you pass the test.

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Speaker 7: God promises a crown of victory is waiting for you.

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Speaker 7: That means victory in your health, victory in your finances,

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Speaker 7: declare victory is in your future in Jesus' name, if

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Speaker 7: you receive it today, can you say amen? We never

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