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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless

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Speaker 1: you gat to be with you today, and hope you'll

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Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week through our daily

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Speaker 1: podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can come

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Speaker 1: visit us in person. We'd love to have you be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. Now, I let

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Speaker 1: you start with something funny. And I heard about this

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Speaker 1: husband and wife. They'd been arguing and fussing for years.

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Speaker 1: The wife finally got so fed up she packed up

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Speaker 1: her husband's belongings and sent him out the front door.

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Speaker 1: As he was leaving, she said, I hope you have

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Speaker 1: a miserable, depressing, frustrating life. The husband turned around, his

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Speaker 1: face brightened up. He said, you mean you want me

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Speaker 1: to stay? All right? Y'all say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. What it says I am. I

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Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what

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Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I've boldly confess my mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about this is your best age. It's

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Speaker 1: easy to discount ourselves because we're too young or too old,

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Speaker 1: we don't have enough experience, or we're past our prime.

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Speaker 1: We make excuses as to why we can excel. Joel,

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Speaker 1: I'm over the hill now. I'm not as sharp as

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Speaker 1: recognize there are great things on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the hill. You never age out with God, you age

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Speaker 1: into your purpose. Abraham became a father at one hundred

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Speaker 1: years old. John wrote the Book of Revelation in his nineties.

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Speaker 1: Noah built the Arc when he was over five hundred

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Speaker 1: years old. And you think you're done at sixty, at seventy,

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Speaker 1: at eighty, you're just getting started. The scripture says, your

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Speaker 1: latter days will be better than your former days. Moses

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Speaker 1: was eighty years old, living in the desert and thinking

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Speaker 1: to hide from his enemies. He'd been out there forty

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Speaker 1: years in what we would call the prime of his

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Speaker 1: life forties fifties, when he had all this passion, strength, endurance.

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Speaker 1: But now he's passed his prime. He's coasting, thinking he

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Speaker 1: missed his chance. That's when God came to him in

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Speaker 1: a burning bush and said, now is the time to

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Speaker 1: go deliver my people. You would think God would want

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Speaker 1: someone younger. God get Joshua. He's in his thirties, he

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Speaker 1: has more endurance, more followers on social media. He's in

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Speaker 1: the in crowd. God Moses has washed up. No, God

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Speaker 1: has an assignment for you at every age. You are

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Speaker 1: not too old. This world needs what you have. We

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Speaker 1: need your wisdom, your talent, your experience, we need your love.

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Speaker 1: At eighty years old, after Moses thought he was done,

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Speaker 1: he went to the Pharaoh and delivered the Israelites. He

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Speaker 1: a rock, manna in the desert. He received the Ten

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Speaker 1: Commandments and became one of the most influential leaders in history.

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Speaker 1: His greatest impact came as a senior citizen after he

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Speaker 1: had quote passed his prime. Don't believe those lies that

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Speaker 1: you're too old, you don't have much to offer, You're

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Speaker 1: not valuable. God doesn't look at your age. He looks

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Speaker 1: at your availability. His purpose didn't stop when you turned sixty.

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Speaker 1: Your assignment didn't go away at seventy. Your value didn't

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Speaker 1: decrease at eighty. If anything, it increased. You have wisdom, experience.

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Speaker 1: You've gone through highs and lows and seen the faithfulness

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Speaker 1: of God. Age hasn't lessened you, it's prepared you. Now

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Speaker 1: here's the key. Quit telling yourself that you're old. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't move like I used to, I can't remember

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Speaker 1: You're talking yourself into being old. You're prophesying aches and

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying to deny reality, but how about saying

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Speaker 1: what God says about you. My youth is being renewed

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Speaker 1: oh walk and not faint. The more you talk about

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Speaker 1: Think young thoughts, Think freshness, Think vitality, energetic, strong, creative,

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Speaker 1: another important thing is you need to have some friends

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Speaker 1: Bingo last week, I know they're good people, but you

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Speaker 1: accomplishing living a vibrant life because getting old starts in

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Speaker 1: our mind. Your spirit never ages. This body does the

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Speaker 1: God made in his image, is eternal. It's timeless, it's

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Speaker 1: not aging. I don't feel any different today at thirty

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Speaker 1: can't believe I'm this age. I feel just like I

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Speaker 1: mind says to jump, but my body doesn't do what

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Speaker 1: it used to do. I jump like a white man now.

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Speaker 1: funny to me is in my mind, I can do it.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, I can run just as fast, jump

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Speaker 1: just as high. Your body may age, but your spirit

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to get old. Aging is inevitable, but getting

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Speaker 1: old is optional. Paul said it this way. Outwardly, this

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Speaker 1: house that I live in is perishing, but inwardly, I'm

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Speaker 1: being renewed day by day. He was saying, things may

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Speaker 1: be aging on the outside, but inwardly I'm refreshed. I'm renewed.

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Speaker 1: It's talking about your thoughts. If you go around thinking

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Speaker 1: hearing's going, I can't concentrate anymore. At my age is

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Speaker 1: to be expected. The problem with that mindset is you're

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Speaker 1: letting yourself get old. Attitude determines your age more than

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Speaker 1: your birthday. I've seen eighty year old people with a

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Speaker 1: twenty year old attitude. They're fun, sharp, positive, a joy

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Speaker 1: with an eighty year old attitude. We're all gonna age.

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Speaker 1: You can't stop the clock from ticking. But you don't

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Speaker 1: have to get old. It's in our mind now. I

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Speaker 1: love that phrase I heard. Don't let the old man in.

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Speaker 1: That old man, that old woman is gonna come knocking

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Speaker 1: at your door. You're tired. You can't do what you

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Speaker 1: used to. Look at those wrinkles. Nobody needs you anymore.

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Speaker 1: cup of coffee, Tell me more. No, keep that door closed.

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Speaker 1: Tell the old man, no thanks. Tell the old woman

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Speaker 1: in the spirit of your mind. The scripture says Moses

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Speaker 1: yet his eyesight was perfectly clear, and he was as

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Speaker 1: strong as ever. Now. I know our bodies are aging.

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Speaker 1: There's a natural progression, But why don't we believe for

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Speaker 1: and when we go, we won't be weak, frail, spending

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Speaker 1: clear vision, joy in our heart, walk and moving being

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Speaker 1: a blessing. Think about my mother. She lived till she

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Speaker 1: was almost ninety two, and she had polio as a child,

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Speaker 1: she came through all that strong, healthy, energetic. Her body

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Speaker 1: in her late eighties, she needed a walker to help

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Speaker 1: her walk. So as kids met and we decided that

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Speaker 1: Paul and Lisa would tell tell her that she shouldn't

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Speaker 1: out of the car. Well, that was like World War Three.

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Speaker 1: She did not like that. She said, Joel, I am

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with Paul and Lisa. They

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Speaker 1: don't have any faith. I took my mother to dinner

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Speaker 1: last five years of her life. And we were walking

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Speaker 1: man walked in a little bent over, a little frail,

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Speaker 1: probably in his early eighties. My mother leaned over to Joel,

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Speaker 1: look at that old man. She didn't see herself as old.

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Speaker 1: Don't get old in your mind. Stay active, stay connected,

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Speaker 1: stay curious. As long as you're alive, God has something

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Speaker 1: for you to do. It's not just take up space,

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Speaker 1: watch others your secondary. Man, You're I ask your prime.

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Speaker 1: Every age is your prime. Every age you have a purpose.

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Speaker 1: Two days before my mother passed, she was right here

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Speaker 1: but let's believe we're not gonna go frail and washed up.

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Speaker 1: Your spirit is alive and fresh and energetic. Keep declaring

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Speaker 1: what Caleb did. He was one of the twelve men

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Speaker 1: God is bigger. He had this report of faith, but

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Speaker 1: fast forward forty years now, Caleb is eighty five years old.

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Speaker 1: What could have happened if only those people had believed.

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Speaker 1: Now he's aged out, he's over the hill. But Caleb

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Speaker 1: him and said, Joshua, I want that mountain. It was

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Speaker 1: it and just give me what's left over. But Caleb

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Speaker 1: first sent me out, this was forty years later. When

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Speaker 1: you're going to accomplish great things. Caleb went out at

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