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Speaker 1: a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on my Heart Radio. Okay,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to Coast to Coast. Jim Paris with us.

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Speaker 1: How to pray for a financial miracle. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the book will take you three or four hours to read.

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Speaker 1: That's how fast. But Jim, you're saying you had you prayed,

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Speaker 1: but in a different way what you do. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: for years, as I was saying, George, I I prayed

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Speaker 1: in a way that was not working, which was I

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Speaker 1: and please bless my plan. And I was sincere, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think there's anything really wrong with

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Speaker 1: which was I changed the way that I prayed. And

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Speaker 1: that's what I talked about a lot in the book,

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Speaker 1: the the idea of going to God with a blank

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Speaker 1: And so many times I see this funny bumper sticker

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Speaker 1: people having it says God is my co pilot. And

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Speaker 1: that's what I was doing. God is my co pilot.

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Speaker 1: But what I want to do is God is my

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Speaker 1: pilot and I'm the co pilot. And and that was

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Speaker 1: the change that I made that totally revolutionized my my life.

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Speaker 1: And um, it's all based on the premise that God

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Speaker 1: still speaks to us today and So I would do

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Speaker 1: these prayer sessions George, where I would go to the

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Speaker 1: and I talked about, you know in the book, the

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Speaker 1: a process of praying again and and and thinking through

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Speaker 1: sharing with people because people are saying, Wow, what's going

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Speaker 1: And I would just share with people, you know, my

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Speaker 1: need to buy my book to pray, just you know,

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Speaker 1: think of these things. And that's the same thing that

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Speaker 1: and you humble yourself. When you've got your yellow pad

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Speaker 1: a give and take when you pray for a miracle,

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Speaker 1: And there's a saying called pray as It goes like this,

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Speaker 1: many people do, which is they simply come up with

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Speaker 1: it might mean George, you're asking what could you give up?

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Speaker 1: God me taking that information and then acting on it. Jim,

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Speaker 1: just you? For some reason, prayer stimulates whatever powers we

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Speaker 1: ask God for wisdom. It's an amazing thing. I'm a Christian,

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Speaker 1: that's not just an answer to today's problem, but it's

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Speaker 1: giving you a skill to be able to solve problems

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