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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 5: We love you, and we know God has great things

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Speaker 5: in store for each one of you. He rewards the

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Speaker 5: people that seek after him. Thanks for tuning in. If

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Speaker 4: But we're glad to have you today.

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Speaker 5: I like to start each week with something kind of funny.

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Speaker 5: And I got this joke from my brother Paul, so

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Speaker 5: don't blame me. I heard about this blonde lady. She

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Speaker 5: was out in the yard using the weed eater and

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Speaker 5: she accidentally cut her cat's tail off.

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Speaker 4: He was hiding in the bushes. She didn't see it.

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Speaker 5: She felt terrible, so she picked up her cat, grabbed

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Speaker 4: The friend said Walmart. Why Walmart?

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Speaker 5: She said, hello, They're the biggest retailer.

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Speaker 4: In the world. I take no credit for that. I

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Speaker 4: give it to Paul.

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

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Speaker 4: 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: do what it says I can do. Today I will

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Speaker 5: be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My

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Speaker 5: mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never

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

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Speaker 5: want to talk to you today about staying alive your

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Speaker 5: whole life.

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Speaker 4: Too many people have lost their enthusiasm.

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Speaker 5: At one time, they were excited about their future.

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Speaker 4: They were pursuing their.

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Speaker 5: Dreams, but along the way they hit some roadblocks.

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Speaker 4: Things didn't work out.

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Speaker 5: They didn't get the promotion they wanted, a relationship felled.

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Speaker 4: Or they went through a health issue.

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Speaker 5: And now that's taking the wind out of their cells.

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Speaker 5: They're just going through the motions of life. They're breathing,

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Speaker 5: They quit dreaming, they quit pursuing their goals.

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Speaker 4: They lost their purpose.

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Speaker 5: If we're going to stay alive our whole life, we

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Speaker 5: You've got to know you are a person of destiny.

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Speaker 4: You have a purpose.

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Speaker 5: You didn't just accidentally show up on planet Earth. God

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Speaker 5: knew you before you were formed in your mother's roomb.

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Speaker 5: He has an assignment for you. There's something God wants

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Speaker 5: Somebody needs your love, somebody needs your smile, somebody.

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Speaker 5: You were created to make a difference, to impact our society,

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Speaker 5: life will try to push those dreams down, just little

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Speaker 5: And if we're not careful, we'll look up and we're

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Speaker 5: We're allowing life to wither us. Just like a leaf

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Speaker 5: This man could talk, he could walk, he had friends,

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Speaker 4: His hand was withered. Somebody gave Victoria nine flowers a

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Speaker 5: though it was too gradual to tell while it was happening,

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Speaker 5: Jesus asked him to do something that he could not do.

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Speaker 5: He said, stretch forth your hand. That man had to

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Speaker 5: My hand's withered. Has been this way too long. I've

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Speaker 5: enough to believe that God could restore. He believed that

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Speaker 4: He did his part, He stretched out his hand, and

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Speaker 4: instantly he was made hame.

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Speaker 5: And some of you today you're breathing, but you're not

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Speaker 5: really living. You've lost your enthusiasm. You're not pursuing your goals. Maybe,

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Speaker 5: like him, you've tried and failled. You've gone through some disappointments,

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Speaker 5: but you've got to get your fire back. Life may

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Speaker 5: have tried to wither you, but God is saying, stretch

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Speaker 5: forth your hand. Dare to do something that you haven't

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Speaker 5: done before. Stretch into a new level. Stretch into a

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Speaker 5: have what it takes. Don't believe those lies. Stretch forth

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Speaker 5: I've tried and felled. Stretch forth your hand. Get a

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Speaker 5: new vision for your life. Stir up the dreams that

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Speaker 5: God has put on the inside. You may think it's

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Speaker 5: At one time, it was probably a burning desire.

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Speaker 5: Isaiah forty three, Behold, I am doing a new thing.

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Speaker 5: Can you not perceiving God wants to do something new

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Speaker 5: And as long as you believe, all things are possible.

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Speaker 5: And if we're going to keep life from withering us,

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Speaker 5: we have to stay full of praise. When you give

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Speaker 5: and he was so discouraged. He said, Joel, it just

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Speaker 5: must not be meant to be. I've been working on

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Speaker 5: to go back and take that test again. You don't know.

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Speaker 5: The eighth time could be the charm. And if you

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Speaker 5: know God's put something in your heart, even if you

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Speaker 5: have to pursue it your whole lifetime, you should never

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Speaker 4: I said, to him.

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Speaker 5: You need to start saying, Father, thank you that I

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Speaker 5: You've tried and failed, and you're just about to give

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm doing today. I'm pumping you full

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Speaker 4: He's up in his eighties now.

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Speaker 5: If you can't stand up, sit up. If you can't sing,

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Speaker 5: very often and work. He would mow the lawn, make repairs,

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Speaker 5: run errands.

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Speaker 4: I remember seeing him.

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Speaker 5: Crawl underneath those portable buildings many times to work on

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Speaker 5: the plumbing. He stayed active way up into his eighties.

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Speaker 5: My mother does the same thing. She's seventy four now,

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Speaker 5: which is young these days, but she still comes up

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Speaker 5: to the office every day and works on the mail.

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Speaker 5: She writes notes and encourages people. One year, we calculated

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Speaker 5: that she had written over fifteen thousand handwritten notes that year.

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Speaker 5: She stays active. When my father went to be with

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Speaker 5: the Lord, we were kind of concerned that my mother

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Speaker 5: wouldn't want to come up to the office, or maybe

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Speaker 5: she would just sit at.

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Speaker 4: Home and not get out as much. But my mother

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Speaker 4: was just the opposite. She was never at home. I'd

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Speaker 4: call her at ten o'clock at night.

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Speaker 5: She would be out with some girls from the office,

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Speaker 5: going to a play, going to a ball game, going

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Speaker 5: to a birthday party. I thought I was going to

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Speaker 5: have to put a curfew on her. One time I

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Speaker 5: called her and I could hear all this noise in

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Speaker 5: the background. I said, Mother, where are you? She said,

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Speaker 5: I flew to Colorado today to watch the Astros play

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Speaker 5: baseball tonight. I thought to myself, my mother is having

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Speaker 5: more fun now that my dad's gone. Do me a

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Speaker 5: favor if I'm not here, make sure Victoria doesn't have

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Speaker 5: that much fun. But it's kind of interesting. A lot

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Speaker 5: of my mother's friends.

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Speaker 4: Are half her age. She hangs around with young people.

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Speaker 5: No wonder she's young. If you're getting up there in years,

468
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Speaker 5: don't have a bunch of people you have to prop

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Speaker 5: up in order to have fun. Find some young friends.

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Speaker 5: I heard about this eighty year old woman. She went

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Speaker 5: on a blind date with a ninety year old man.

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Speaker 5: She came home so frustrated. Her daughter said, mother, what's wrong.

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Speaker 5: She said, I had to slap him three times. The

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Speaker 5: daughter said, you mean he tried to get fresh.

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Speaker 4: She said, no, I thought he was dead. You gotta

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Speaker 4: find you.

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Speaker 5: Some young friends, at least young at heart. That'll keep

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Speaker 5: you young, keep you active. Really, I believe old is

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Speaker 5: all in our mind. Our body may be aging, but

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Speaker 5: if we'll stay young in our mind.

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Speaker 4: Then that'll help.

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Speaker 5: Us to stay alive our whole life. God's promised us

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Speaker 5: a long, satisfied life.

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Speaker 4: What am I saying today?

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Speaker 5: Don't be too easily satisfied. I met a woman the

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Speaker 5: other day after the service. She's one hundred and three

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Speaker 5: years old, and she was just as happy as can be,

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Speaker 5: soul full of life. She looked like she could be

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Speaker 5: in her seventies, and I kind of jokingly said, how

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Speaker 5: long are you planning on living?

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Speaker 4: She smiled and said, Joel, I can't.

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Speaker 7: Go home until I see all my children serving God.

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Speaker 7: She quoted that scripture as for me and my house,

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Speaker 7: we will serve the Lord. She was saying, in effect,

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Speaker 7: I'm not satisfied. I still got dreams in my heart.

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Speaker 7: I've still got promises that have not yet been fulfilled.

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Speaker 5: She has seven children, and just one of those sons

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Speaker 5: is not on the right path. I mean, he's like

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Speaker 5: in his eighties himself. She told how she gets up

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Speaker 5: every morning. She calls him, she encourages him, she quotes.

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Speaker 4: Scriptures over him. That's her purpose, that's her reason for

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Speaker 4: getting up each day.

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Speaker 5: You got to make up your mind that you're going

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Speaker 5: to live a satisfied life. That means you're going to

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Speaker 5: see every promise, every dream, every desire, You're going to

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Speaker 5: see that come to pass. Some people they quit living

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Speaker 5: at fifty, and it's because they've let life wither them.

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Speaker 5: They've given up on their dreams. You got to stir

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Speaker 5: up what God has placed on the inside. And you

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Speaker 5: may have been through some setbacks, but God still has

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Speaker 5: something for you to do. I think about the story

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Speaker 5: of Naomi.

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Speaker 4: She was a widow. She had lived a very sad life.

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Speaker 5: Her husband had died, and now her two sons were

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Speaker 5: killed in a battle.

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Speaker 4: She was so discouraged she.

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Speaker 5: Didn't think she had any reason to live. She decided

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Speaker 5: to move back to her childhood home. That way, when

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Speaker 5: she died, she could be buried there. Her daughter in law, Ruth,

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Speaker 5: she was married to one of the sons that had

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Speaker 5: been killed, told Naomi she wanted to move back with her.

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Speaker 5: Naomi tried to talk her out of it and said, no, Ruth,

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Speaker 5: go live your life.

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Speaker 4: I'm old.

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Speaker 5: You don't need to take care of me, Just go

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Speaker 5: do your thing, But Ruth insisted. They moved back together,

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Speaker 5: and Ruth would go out into the fields every day

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Speaker 5: and gather up the leftover week That's how they survived.

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Speaker 5: And one day Ruth met the owner of that field,

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Speaker 5: a man by the name of Boas, a wealthy man,

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Speaker 5: and Naomi started giving Ruth instruction, giving her advice kind

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Speaker 5: of matchmaking, saying, Ruth, when you go out wear this today,

533
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Speaker 5: and when you see Boaz, tell him this and that.

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Speaker 5: Naomi found her purpose in helping Ruth. When you find

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Speaker 5: your purpose, it will help to heal the pains.

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Speaker 4: Of the past.

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Speaker 5: Even though Naomi was helping someone else, God was using

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Speaker 5: that to restore her. Ruth and Boaz eventually got married

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Speaker 5: and they had a little baby by the name of Obed.

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Speaker 5: They were so proud of the child. They brought him

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Speaker 5: to Naomi. And when Naomi held the newborn, something interesting happened.

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Speaker 5: Some commentaries say that milk began to be produced in

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Speaker 5: her body. Here Naomi, this older woman, way up there

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Speaker 5: in years, was able to nurse the child. She ended

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Speaker 5: up taking care of him. What am I saying? When

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Speaker 5: you find your purpose, your milk will begin to flow.

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00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 5: Whether you're twenty five or eighty five, God will give

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00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 5: you exactly what you need. Some of you today you

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00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 5: feel like Naomi, You've been through disappointments, you've had unfair

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Speaker 5: things happen.

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Speaker 4: You're tempted to think I'm finished, Joel, I'm done.

552
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:21,959
Speaker 5: My dreams are never gonna come to pass.

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Speaker 4: No, there's another.

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Speaker 5: Ruth out there that needs you. As you help others,

555
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 5: as you find your reason for getting up each day,

556
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 5: God's going to do something new in your life. You

557
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 5: got to stir up those dreams, stir up those gifts.

558
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 5: Don't let life wither you. As long as you're breathing,

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Speaker 5: God has something for you to do.

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Speaker 4: If you're going to stay alive your whole life.

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Speaker 5: You've got to know you're a person of purpose. Somebody

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Speaker 5: needs what you have. Shake off every disappointment, don't dwell

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Speaker 5: on the setbacks.

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Speaker 4: This is a new day.

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Speaker 5: Life may have tried to wither you, but God is saying,

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Speaker 5: stretch forth your hand, get a new vision. Let these

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Speaker 5: seeds of hope taut. Make up your mind. No matter

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Speaker 5: what comes your way, You're gonna keep producing. You're gonna

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Speaker 5: keep growing, You're gonna keep learning, You're gonna stay active

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Speaker 5: if you will stay passionate about life, knowing what your

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Speaker 5: purpose is, being your best every day. God promises your

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Speaker 5: leaf will not wither. God will pour out his blessings

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Speaker 5: in favor and you'll live the life of victory he

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Speaker 5: has in story.

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Speaker 4: Amen, do you receive it today or we never like.

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Speaker 5: To close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to

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Speaker 5: make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come

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