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Speaker 4: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 4: this country grandmother. She'd go out on her front porch

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Speaker 4: every morning say thank you Lord for another day. Her

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Speaker 4: next door neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back,

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Speaker 4: there's no such thing as the Lord. One morning he

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Speaker 4: heard her praying that God would send her groceries for

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Speaker 4: the week. He snuck over early in the morning and

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Speaker 4: put groceries on the front porch. When she came out,

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Speaker 4: she said, thank you Lord, you did it again. He

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Speaker 4: began to laugh and laugh. He said, God didn't send

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Speaker 4: you those groceries. I put them there. She looked up

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Speaker 4: to the heavens, said Lord, thank you. You not only

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Speaker 4: sent me groceries, but you made the devil pay for it.

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Speaker 4: Hold up your bibles, 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 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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

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Speaker 4: talked the word of God. I boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about being confident in what

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Speaker 4: I don't have the talent, I don't have the education,

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Speaker 4: It's not enough to just have faith in God. That's important,

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Speaker 4: have faith in what God has given you. You have

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Speaker 4: to believe you are equipped, you are empowered. You are

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Speaker 4: I have people tell me, Joel, I don't have a

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Speaker 4: You don't have to be bigger, stronger, tougher to overcome

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Speaker 4: And Jesus heard all their excuses. He finally said, you've

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Speaker 4: told me all about what you don't have. All I

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Speaker 4: But what is that among so many they looked at

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Speaker 4: I'd believe if I had more talent, more education, more

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Speaker 4: he said to them. Give me what you have. Don't

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Speaker 4: make excuses. Don't sit on the sidelines of life, intimidating

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Speaker 4: what happens. When you give God what you have, he'll

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Speaker 4: multiply it. Now what you have and they seem small

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Speaker 4: compared to what you're facing, Compared to the financial difficulty,

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Speaker 4: He'll take the little and he'll turn it into much. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 4: I got a big problem, but I don't have big resources.

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Speaker 4: That's okay. God does. He owns it all. He's got

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Speaker 4: be high, but our God is the most high. That

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Speaker 4: enemy may be powerful, but God is all powerful. He

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Speaker 4: in what you have. When David went out to face Goliath,

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Speaker 4: my father went to be with the Lord in nineteen

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Speaker 4: Now I thought of all the reasons I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 4: God says, no, I have ways to protect you, to

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Speaker 4: This is the time to move forward in faith. Get

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