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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast today. Juel and I love you

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Speaker 1: so much and we are so excited that you are

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Speaker 1: taking the word of God in your heart, and I

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Speaker 1: believe you are going to be prepared and equipped.

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Speaker 2: God has a blessing in store for you.

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Speaker 3: I believe that, and it's going to be a blessed

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Always honored to have you listening. Enjoy

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Speaker 3: the message today.

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Speaker 2: I know YO blessed you in this place.

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Speaker 1: I was in a garden shop the other day and

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Speaker 1: I came across these really cute little lights, solar lights,

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Speaker 1: and I was looking at the different styles they had,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, these are so cute, and I have

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Speaker 1: the perfect place to put these lights. There's a place

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Speaker 1: at our side back door. When you walk out, you

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Speaker 1: begin to walk down this little path and you can't

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Speaker 1: see anything. It's so dark. I don't have any electricity

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Speaker 1: out there. So I thought these solar lights will be

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Speaker 1: perfect to place along that path so that we can

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Speaker 1: see at night. Because I'm always stumbling trying to stay

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Speaker 1: on the little path. So I took the lights put

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Speaker 1: him in the ground. It was a beautiful sunny day.

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Speaker 1: I thought these lights are gonna power up it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be amazing. I can't wait to take a walk tonight

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Speaker 1: see how my lights are working. So I didn't say

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Speaker 1: anything to Joel about it, but I said, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: go down that little path. I wanted to see if

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Speaker 1: he noticed my new lights. So as we started walking

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Speaker 2: My lights weren't working.

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Speaker 1: I didn't say anything to Joel because I didn't want

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Speaker 1: him to know that I had put lights there and

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Speaker 1: my plan had failed.

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Speaker 2: So I just kept walking down the path. But in

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Speaker 2: my mind, I was so discouraged.

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Speaker 1: I thought, now, I thought those lights were just gonna

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Speaker 1: work beautifully.

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Speaker 2: There's solar lights.

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, Tomorrow, I'm taking those lights

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Speaker 1: up and I'm marching them straight back to the store,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell him they're cute, but they don't work.

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Speaker 1: They're no good to me if they don't work. So

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Speaker 1: the next morning, I got off and I took the

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Speaker 2: I said, I've.

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Speaker 1: Seen this before, You're supposed to pull the tab so

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Speaker 1: that what is inside the light can be illuminated by

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Speaker 2: That's what gives it the power.

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Speaker 1: So I thought, oh wow, okay, So I went and

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Speaker 1: I pulled all the tabs, put them back down, thought,

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Speaker 2: God.

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Speaker 1: Joel wanted him to come take a walk with me

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Speaker 1: so he would notice my lights. And sure enough, they

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Speaker 1: were shining brightly. They illuminated my path. Now Joel wasn't

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Speaker 1: You see, we're very much like those solar lights. We

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Speaker 1: have to pull our tab. That means removing anything in

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Speaker 1: You see, we have something on the inside of us,

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Speaker 1: all we can do to bask in his presence get

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Speaker 1: more of him, we are also illuminated. See, we weren't

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Speaker 2: The way to go.

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Speaker 1: God says that we were meant to shine like stars

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Speaker 2: See, just like that tab, we've.

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Speaker 1: But it's so strange because the tree grows at an angle.

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Speaker 1: Are some of you today struggling to get through the

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Speaker 1: Maybe busyness is crowding your life from the light.

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Speaker 2: Because they don't have the same values that you have.

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Speaker 1: They don't understand the importance of being in the house

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Speaker 1: of God, of prayer, of worship. But to keep going

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Speaker 1: prune away some of these bushes, if you'll make some

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Speaker 2: It may grow properly.

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Speaker 2: I want to encourage.

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Speaker 1: Us today to prune our lives, to look at what's

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Speaker 1: Busyness isn't always good. We need to prune some of

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Speaker 1: the busyness out of our life. You know, some people

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Speaker 1: don't even realize this, that unforgiveness and anger can cover

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Speaker 1: if we allow anger and bitterness to stay around too long,

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Speaker 1: guess what the sun may come up in the morning.

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Speaker 1: If we let the sun go down on our anger,

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Speaker 1: the morning, but it can't reach us because we've separated

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Speaker 2: You can't even see me.

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Speaker 1: To allow forgiveness to flow, you gotta let the sun

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Speaker 2: Take those weeds of unforgiveness of your life.

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Speaker 1: Root up that anger, don't allow it to stop the

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Speaker 2: Pull the tabs, so to speak, and say enough is enough.

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Speaker 1: You see, you may be struggling today, You may be

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a scripture in the Bible that said

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Speaker 1: They were so discouraged they couldn't even believe. They couldn't

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Speaker 1: God could do. You see that discouragement was a cloud

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Speaker 2: And we have to realize discouragement when.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever realized that maybe it had been raining

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Speaker 1: But you've got to remove the fear, the discouragement in

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Speaker 2: Bible is alive and powerful.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says it is God breathe words.

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Speaker 2: Now. Some people think, well, that's okay, you know what.

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Speaker 2: I got Joel. Sorry, Joel, it's true. I'll keep Joel.

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Speaker 1: be a to be a good steward of my life,

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Speaker 1: to help other people. You see, it is so important.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says that the Word of God is a

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Speaker 1: lamp unto our feet. It is a light unto our path.

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Speaker 1: It will shine you in the right direction. Don't think, well,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you, if you'll store that word up,

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Speaker 1: But you got to take time to sit and be

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Speaker 1: we like to worship the sun. Would we didn't realize,

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Speaker 1: Let God's word bake evenly in your life.

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Speaker 2: Let it bake evenly. Listen. God is a good God.

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Speaker 2: He wants to shine his light on you.

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Speaker 1: There is nothing that he can't destroy. There's nothing that

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Speaker 2: Amen, He's an awesome God.

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Speaker 4: It starts with just a tiny seed. From it, tender

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Speaker 4: But how do you experience the same miraculous and extraordinary

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Speaker 3: Sometimes our life is limited because we're believing too small.

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Speaker 2: Faith is like a sea.

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Speaker 3: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: We don't have to figure out how it's going to happen.

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