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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate you,

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Speaker 2: and pray for God's very best in your life. Well,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes,

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Speaker 2: and if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 2: and be a part of one of our services. I

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Speaker 2: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. I

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Speaker 2: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 2: this man. He was driving through an intersection that was

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Speaker 2: monitored by cameras. If you ran the light or broke

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Speaker 2: the law in any way, would take your picture and

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Speaker 2: you'd receive a ticket.

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Speaker 1: In the mail.

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Speaker 2: So he made sure to go through it extra slowly,

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Speaker 2: not break any laws. But he noticed the camera flash

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Speaker 2: took his picture.

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Speaker 1: He thought, that's not right.

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Speaker 2: He turned around and drove through it again, even more slowly.

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Speaker 2: Once again it took his picture. He thought, this thing's

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Speaker 2: messed up. They cannot give me a ticket. Out of spite,

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Speaker 2: he'd drove through it three more times. Each time, I'm

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Speaker 2: waving at the camera with a big smile. A week later,

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Speaker 2: he received five tickets in the mail for not wearing

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Speaker 2: his seat belt. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 2: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I'll never be the same.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about called into

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Speaker 2: the house. Sometimes we're doing the right thing, but it

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Speaker 2: doesn't seem like it's making a difference.

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Speaker 1: We're being our.

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Speaker 2: Best, honoring God, but we're not making much progress, not

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Speaker 2: getting good breaks, our dreams aren't coming to pass. It

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Speaker 2: seems like we're being overlooked. It's easy to get discouraged,

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Speaker 2: think God must have forgotten about us, especially when we

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Speaker 2: see other people who are being blessed, promoted, meeting the

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Speaker 2: right person. Thoughts tell us it's because they're more talented,

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Speaker 2: they're more attractive, they come from an influential family. Just

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Speaker 2: accept where you are. These thoughts try to make us

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Speaker 2: feel insignificant, push us down, so we'll settle for mediocrity.

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Speaker 2: This is what happened to David in the scripture. He

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Speaker 2: was the youngest son of a man named Jesse. He

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Speaker 2: had seven older brothers, and as a teenager, he got

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Speaker 2: stuck out in the shepherd's fields taking care of his

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Speaker 1: He spent his days feeding the.

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Speaker 2: Animals, cleaning up their mess, protecting them from harm. It

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Speaker 2: was boring, lonely. His brothers were in the military, where

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Speaker 1: Exciting and prestigious.

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Speaker 2: They wore a uniform each day, had respect and honor.

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Speaker 2: When they passed by, people admired them. Nobody thought of David.

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Speaker 2: Nobody celebrated him. In their eyes, what he was doing

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Speaker 2: was insignificant. They discounted him, thought as just David. He's

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Speaker 2: the youngest, he's small, he's not talented. He'll never do

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Speaker 2: because nobody was watching. He didn't get bitter, go around

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Speaker 2: All the odds were against him. But one day God

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Speaker 1: When Samuel showed up, the first one he saw was

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Speaker 2: very impressive. Samuel thought, it's gotta be him. Look at

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Speaker 2: one not him, went through all seven. Finally Samuel asked Jesse,

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Speaker 1: He's out in the shepherd's fields. But I know it's

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Speaker 2: He's not strong and impressive like these other sons. They

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Speaker 2: didn't even bother inviting him in. But just because people

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Speaker 2: leave you out doesn't mean God leaves you out. People

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Speaker 2: may overlook you. They may judge you by the outside,

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Speaker 2: your height, your weight, your skin color. God looks on

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Speaker 2: Promotion doesn't come from people. It comes from the Lord.

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Speaker 2: And people may bypass you. They may not give you

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Speaker 2: the time of day, but they cannot stop what.

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Speaker 1: God has ordained for you.

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Speaker 2: If you'll keep being faithful, honoring God, he'll take you

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Speaker 2: from the background to the foreground. People may try to

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Speaker 2: push you down, God will lift you up. They may

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Speaker 2: try to hold you back. God will thrust you forward.

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Speaker 2: People don't determine your destiny.

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Speaker 1: God does.

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Speaker 2: When Samuel heard that Jesse had another son, he asked

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Speaker 2: I can imagine David sees this man way off in

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Speaker 2: back to the house. When David arrived, the moment Samuel

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Speaker 1: He said, that's the one. He's the next king of Israel.

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Speaker 2: All those years David spent out in the shepherd's fields,

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Speaker 2: God said, I have my eye on David. People discounted him.

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Speaker 2: God saw his potential. They looked on the outside. God

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Speaker 2: looked at his heart. He saw David doing the right

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Speaker 2: being faithful, even when it looked like he wasn't going anywhere.

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Speaker 2: You too, may feel like you'll be an overlooked, left out.

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Speaker 2: The people that should be for you should be cheering

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Speaker 1: Don't worry. Your time is coming. God is watching you.

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Speaker 2: He sees your faithfulness, your dedication, your integrity. Like David,

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Speaker 2: you're about to be called into the house. You're about

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Speaker 2: to see doors open that you could never open. You're

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Speaker 2: about to see vindication where God honors you in front

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Speaker 1: You're going to see.

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Speaker 2: New levels of influence where people that once disrespected you,

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Speaker 2: up to you. Now they admire you, ask you for advice.

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Speaker 2: David was just minding his own business this day. As

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Speaker 2: far as he was concerned, it was just another day

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Speaker 1: Suddenly his whole life changed. It happened unexpectedly.

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Speaker 2: You may think it's just another ordinary day, going to work,

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Speaker 2: coming home. You don't know what God is up to.

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Speaker 2: You never know when that messenger is going to show

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Speaker 2: up saying you're needed in the house. You didn't see

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Speaker 2: it coming, You weren't expecting it. Suddenly you meet the

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Speaker 2: right person. Suddenly the medical report says cancer free. Suddenly

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Speaker 2: you get that break that thrust you to the next level.

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Speaker 2: You were called into the house. What's interesting is David

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Speaker 2: wasn't dreaming about becoming a king. He wasn't praying that

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Speaker 2: one day he would lead a nation. He never thought

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Speaker 2: he would defeat that giant and become an overnight national hero.

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Speaker 2: He was a shepherd boy from a low income family.

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Speaker 2: That influence, that kind of favor never entered his mind.

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Speaker 2: What God has in store for you is much.

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Speaker 1: Bigger than you've a mane.

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Speaker 2: We pray for things that seem reasonable to us. We

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Speaker 2: ask for healing and protection, to meet the right people.

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Speaker 1: That's all good. But God has blessings that you've never

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Speaker 1: asked for.

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Speaker 2: If He showed you all that was in your future,

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Speaker 2: it would boggle your mind. If you'll do like David

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Speaker 2: and be your best where you are, you won't have

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Speaker 2: to chase promotion. Promotion will chase you. You won't have

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Speaker 2: to go after blessings. Blessings will come after you. When

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Speaker 2: you keep God first place, The scripture says you won't

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Speaker 2: be able to outrun the good things He has in store.

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Speaker 1: One of the keys is to.

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Speaker 2: Stay faithful where you are. Don't wait till you get

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Speaker 2: out of the shepherd's fields.

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Speaker 1: Then you're going to be your best.

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Speaker 2: When you get a more significant position, then you're going

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Speaker 2: to give it your all. You have to be excellent

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Speaker 2: on the level you're on right now. Pass the test

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Speaker 2: in the as if David would have slacked off, done

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Speaker 2: a half hearted job, he wouldn't have been called into

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Speaker 2: the house. And if you're not excellent on your level,

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Speaker 2: then you won't see promotion and increase. A friend of

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Speaker 2: mine started pastoring a church in the hills of West

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Speaker 2: Virginia in his late teens. Many sundays there were only

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Speaker 2: seven people in the congregation. He taught a Bible class

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Speaker 2: each week with three people. Year after year went by

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Speaker 2: and not too much changed. He had an incredible gift

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Speaker 2: for ministry, very anointed, very powerful, but only a few

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Speaker 2: dozen people really recognized his gift. Most discounted him thought, ah,

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Speaker 2: that's that young pastor.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't have much to offer. He was very poor.

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Speaker 2: He drove a car that had holes in the floorboard

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Speaker 2: where it had rusted out. You had to keep your

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Speaker 2: feet up so they wouldn't touch the ground. He was

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Speaker 2: not only the pastor of the church, he was the

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Speaker 2: janitor as well.

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Speaker 1: He would vacuum it, clean out the restrooms.

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Speaker 2: He knew he had more in him, He knew he

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Speaker 2: was going to make a greater impact.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't slack off because he wasn't where he

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Speaker 1: wanted to be.

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Speaker 2: He didn't say, when I get a bigger congregation, I'll

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Speaker 2: be my best. When I get some recognition, when these

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Speaker 2: people start realizing what I have to offer, then I'll

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Speaker 2: give it my awe.

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Speaker 1: He was his best right where he was.

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Speaker 2: Some people in this small town tried to discourage him,

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Speaker 2: told him that he would never make it as a pastor.

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Speaker 2: He was too poor, didn't have the training, the experience.

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Speaker 2: They discounted him, tried to make him feel insignificant. But

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Speaker 2: one day, through a series of unusual events, part of

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Speaker 2: his message ended up on television. The owner of a

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Speaker 2: Christian network saw it and said, I want that man

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Speaker 2: on my.

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Speaker 1: Network all the time.

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Speaker 2: Overnight he went from an unknown, small ministry in Way,

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Speaker 2: Virginia to a platform reaching millions of people today. Our

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Speaker 2: friend TD Jakes doesn't have just a couple dozen people.

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Speaker 2: He has thousands and has impacted the world. What happened

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Speaker 2: People that are more talented, that have more beauty, that

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Speaker 2: You didn't get left out, you weren't shortchanged.

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Speaker 2: There are gifts and talents you've not yet tapped into.

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Speaker 2: Left side didn't work, got to the place he couldn't

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Speaker 2: into him twenty four hours a day intravenously. Last December,

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Speaker 2: His only chance of survival was a heart transplant. He

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Speaker 2: Some of our cameramen send him my message about how

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Speaker 2: That seed took root in his spirit. Three weeks later,

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Speaker 2: He had the transplant. Today, he's here. He says, he

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