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Speaker 4: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.

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Speaker 4: I hope you enjoy this message. I believe that God

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Speaker 4: wants every one of us to be a superhero. See.

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Speaker 4: God wants us to be fearless and courageous. He wants

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Speaker 4: us to be like the ones you see in the movies.

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Speaker 4: You know how they are about like the time the

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Speaker 4: enemy gets a hold of them, they fall down. He's

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Speaker 4: got them in the gridlock. That superhero turns around and

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Speaker 4: swirls around, and before you know it, he's defeating the enemy.

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Speaker 4: Or he comes out of nowhere. You know, you don't

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Speaker 4: know what happened to him. He comes out of nowhere

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Speaker 4: and shows up strong on the scene. You see, he

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Speaker 4: may fall, but he shows up strong. And I believe

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Speaker 4: that God wants us to show up strong. He wants

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Speaker 4: us to show up strong, not only for ourselves but

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Speaker 4: for other people. He wants us to be a superhero.

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Speaker 4: And as we were singing together, that's how we're gonna

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Speaker 4: become this superhero powerhouse for Almighty God. It's only gonna

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Speaker 4: come when we do it together. You see, we're not

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Speaker 4: islands among ourselves. We were not intended to be alone.

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Speaker 4: When God created man, he says, you need a helpmate.

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Speaker 4: You need someone who's gonna link arms with you. You need

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Speaker 4: someone that can help you move forward, perpetuate my kingdom.

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Speaker 4: You see, we were never designed to be alone. The

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Speaker 4: scripture says that two are better than one, because when

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Speaker 4: one falls, the others there to pick him up. You see,

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Speaker 4: we are going to defeat the enemy. We are going

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Speaker 4: to move forward when we're linked arms, doing it together.

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Speaker 4: In Hebrews three point thirteen. Listen to what it says.

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Speaker 4: It says to encourage one another daily. Now that sounds great,

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Speaker 4: doesn't it. Boy, you look good today? Oh I like

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Speaker 4: that presentation at work. Well, you're so pretty. We should

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Speaker 4: do that, shouldn't we. We should encourage each other daily.

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Speaker 4: That's what God says, encourage each other daily. You know,

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Speaker 4: God formed us in our mother's womb. He made us,

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Speaker 4: and he knows how we operate. You see, we have

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Speaker 4: instructions on how to operate to our highest potential and performance,

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Speaker 4: and we can find them in the word of God.

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Speaker 4: So he says, encourage each other daily. Now listen to

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Speaker 4: is what God was saying would happen when we stand together,

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Speaker 4: But when you have people around you that are willing

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Speaker 4: interesting that God said our encouragement, our encouragement can stand

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Speaker 4: That's what we look like on the inside. I was

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Speaker 4: Encouragement means to impart courage. It means to make fearless,

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Speaker 4: we have to stand together. We have to be superheroes.

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Speaker 4: When I look at Hebrews three point thirteen in this light,

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Speaker 4: I feel like Wonder Woman. I think, you know what,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna be empowered to encourage. Listen, encourage your family,

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Speaker 4: Encourage your children, Encourage that coworker, Encourage your boss. Hey,

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Speaker 4: encouragement doesn't mean the being You encourage them because they're

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Speaker 4: he says encourage you one another daily, that that means

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Speaker 4: there's a great exchange that takes place. See if every

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Speaker 4: one of us would encourage someone daily, what would this

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Speaker 4: we can think a lot of things, we can think

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Speaker 4: And that's what discouragement does. It gets your life going

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Speaker 4: or be discouraged. Because we're the Church of the Living God.

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Speaker 4: and continue to impart courage. I truly believe that that

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Speaker 4: you encourage, you'll be encouraged. When you're encouraged, you'll be

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Speaker 4: say when you encourage people, when you help someone, that

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Speaker 4: it is an emotional high that literally releases dopamine in

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Speaker 4: I truly believe there will be days that we have

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Speaker 4: You know, sometimes encouragement is just simply showing up with

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Speaker 4: You see, we need to encourage not only with our words,

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