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Speaker 5: But thanks for tuning in, and thank you again for

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Speaker 5: coming out today. And I like to start with something

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Speaker 5: funny each week, and I heard about this pastor and

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Speaker 5: song leader that weren't getting along, and begin to spill

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Speaker 5: over into the services. And one Sunday the pastor spoke

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Speaker 5: on being willing to change. Afterwards, the song leader got

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Speaker 4: The next week he spoke on being.

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Speaker 5: A giver, and the song leader got up and led,

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Speaker 5: Jesus paid it all.

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Speaker 4: The next week, the pastor.

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Speaker 5: Talked about how we have to watch our tongues and

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Speaker 4: The song leader got up and led, I love to

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Speaker 4: tell the story.

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Speaker 5: The pastor got so frustrated he finally resigned. He said,

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Speaker 5: The song leader then led, what a friend we have

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Speaker 5: in Jesus. Hold up your bibles, say it like you

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Speaker 5: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 5: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 5: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about blooming where

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Speaker 5: Too many people are living negative and discouraged because they

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Speaker 4: They don't like their job. The people are hard to

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Speaker 5: When they get stuck in traffic, they get all upset.

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Speaker 4: But I've learned God is more.

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Speaker 5: Interested in changing me than he is in changing my

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Speaker 5: God open up new doors, the key is you have

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Speaker 5: to bloom right where you're planted. You cannot wait till

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Speaker 5: You have to be the best that you can be

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Speaker 5: Be good to people even if they're not being good

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Speaker 5: where you're planted, you're so in a seed for God

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Speaker 5: to do something new. The scripture says here in Psalm

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Speaker 5: thirty seven, the steps of a good person are ordered

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Speaker 5: where we are is where we're supposed to be. Well,

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Speaker 5: you said, Joel, that couldn't be right comfortable. I'm not

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Speaker 5: it may be difficult, but God will not allow a

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Speaker 5: happens to us, It happens for us. If we'll keep

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Speaker 5: the right attitude, God will always use it for our good.

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Speaker 5: That person is hard to get along with, he's not

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Speaker 5: real big and say thank you so much for everything

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Speaker 5: the things that are uncomfortable in your life right now

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Speaker 5: has in store when things come our way that we

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Speaker 5: should be God. I may not like this, but I

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Speaker 4: But so often we're fighting against everything that doesn't go

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Speaker 5: In we're always trying to get somewhere else to be happy.

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Speaker 4: If I could just get out of this small.

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Speaker 4: Us where we are.

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Speaker 5: A better approach is this is where God has me

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Speaker 5: be happy.

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Speaker 4: In other words.

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Speaker 5: If I get stuck in traffic, this is not where

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Speaker 5: I want to be, but this is where God has me,

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Speaker 5: it and be happy anyway. That's what it means to

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Speaker 5: bloom where you're planning. Wherever you are, you know God

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Speaker 5: You're stable, you're consistent, You've always got a smile, You're

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Speaker 5: And what I love about this is it takes away

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: I know too many people that don't like their job.

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Speaker 5: They read going to work, they dread driving into traffic,

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Speaker 5: enjoy it. Friends, Life is too short to live that way.

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Speaker 5: You may not have the perfect job, the perfect boss,

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Speaker 4: You're gonna bloom right where you are.

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Speaker 5: And you say, Joe, you don't know these people I

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Speaker 5: Nothing is gonna keep me from enjoying my life. I

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Speaker 5: When I work for my father here at the Ministry

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Speaker 5: for seventeen years, I was in charge of the television production.

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Speaker 5: One time, I got all these radio stations lined up

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Speaker 5: It was a big deal, and I asked my dad

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Speaker 4: But I'm gonna be a flower. I'm gonna bloom. I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna have a good attitude.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna smile, I'm gonna be happy in spite of

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Speaker 5: my circumstances. When you bloom in the midst of all

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Speaker 5: those weeds, that is a seed that you're sowing. It's

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Speaker 5: not only gonna inspire and challenge the people around you

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Speaker 5: to come up higher, but that's a seed for God

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Speaker 5: to take you higher. I know some of you right now.

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Speaker 5: You're in a negative environment. The people in your life

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Speaker 5: aren't really going places. There's no goals, no dreams, no vision,

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Speaker 5: no enthusiasm. You don't really see how you could ever

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Speaker 5: rise out of that. It'd be easy to just accept

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Speaker 5: it and settle where you are and think that that's

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Speaker 5: your destiny. Let me challenge you, that is not your destiny.

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Speaker 5: You were made for more. God has incredible things in

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Speaker 5: your future. You have got to do your part and

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Speaker 5: bloom where you're planet.

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Speaker 4: What does that mean? Develop your gifts and talents.

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Speaker 5: Whatever you do whatever your occupation is, get better at it,

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Speaker 5: improve your skills, read books, take training courses, go back

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Speaker 5: to school if you need to. Don't you dare just

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Speaker 5: sit back and think I'll never rise any higher, I'll

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Speaker 5: never get out of this neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: I guess this is just my lot in life.

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Speaker 5: No, your lot in life is to excel, it's to

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Speaker 5: go further, it's to make a difference in this world.

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Speaker 5: You need to draw that line in the sand and say,

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna settle where I am. I know I

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Speaker 5: was made for more. I'm a child of the most

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Speaker 5: tied God. I have seeds of greatness on the inside

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Speaker 5: of me. So I'm gonna rise up and be the

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Speaker 5: best that I can be right where I am, knowing

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Speaker 5: that God is going to get me to where I'm.

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Speaker 4: Supposed to be. This is what Joseph did.

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Speaker 5: It looked like his destiny was to be a slave

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Speaker 5: all of his life. He was mistreated, lied about, even

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Speaker 5: spent years in prison for something.

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Speaker 4: That he didn't do. But I love the fact that Joseph.

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Speaker 5: Didn't get negative, he didn't complain, he didn't give up.

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Speaker 5: He just kept blooming where he was planted, kept being

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Speaker 5: his best right where he was. Let me tell you

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Speaker 5: you can't keep a good person down. God got him

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Speaker 5: to where he was supposed to be. You may be

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Speaker 5: surrounded by a bunch of weeds today, people that are

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Speaker 5: not going any place, or people that are even telling

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Speaker 5: you that you're not going to make anything out of

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Speaker 5: your life. Now plug your ears full of cotton and

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Speaker 5: just bloom where you are.

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Speaker 4: You can prove them wrong.

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Speaker 5: You can be the one to set a new standard

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Speaker 5: for your family.

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Speaker 4: You can be the one to raise the bar.

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Speaker 5: And let me tell you, when God sees you doing

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Speaker 5: what you can do, God will show up and do

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Speaker 5: what you can't do. He'll give you breaks that you

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Speaker 5: didn't deserve. He'll cause people to be good.

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Speaker 4: To you for no reason.

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Speaker 5: He'll open up doors that no man can shut. That's

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Speaker 5: his favor shining down on your life. I read a

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Speaker 5: story about a boy that was born in extreme poverty

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Speaker 5: in Puerto Rico. His name is Juan Rodriguez. Growing up,

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Speaker 5: he and his family hardly had anything to eat. The

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Speaker 5: place they were living was nothing more than a shack.

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Speaker 5: At seven years old, he was working in the sugar

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Speaker 5: cane fields, plowing behind the oxen didn't look like he

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Speaker 5: had much of a future. It didn't look like he

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Speaker 5: would ever get out of that environment.

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Speaker 4: But right close to his house there was.

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Speaker 5: An old rundown, beat up golf course, and one was

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Speaker 5: so intrigued by golf that he made his own golf

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Speaker 5: club out of a stick.

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Speaker 4: He would use bottle caps as.

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Speaker 5: The ball, and all through the day he'd go around

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Speaker 5: playing golf on his imaginary golf course. A few years later,

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Speaker 5: when one of the golfers saw how interested he was

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Speaker 5: in golf, they got him a job up at the course,

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Speaker 5: making thirty five cents day. Whenever one wasn't working, he

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Speaker 5: was up there playing golf, getting better and better, being

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Speaker 5: the best that he could be.

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Speaker 4: Right where he was.

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Speaker 5: At twenty one years of age, after spending two years

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Speaker 5: in the US Army, he was hired as a full

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Speaker 5: time caddy at a golf course in Puerto Rico. One day,

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Speaker 5: a professional golfer came through and saw how talented one was.

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Speaker 5: This golfer took one under his wings and started working

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Speaker 5: with him, teaching him training him today many years later,

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Speaker 5: Juan Rodriguez is better known as Chichi Rodriguez. He went

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Speaker 5: on to win eight tournaments on the PGA Tour was

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Speaker 5: named the Senior Player of the Year. He started the

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Speaker 5: Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation to help other children rise

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Speaker 5: out of defeat and poverty like he did.

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Speaker 4: What am I saying, Bloom where you're planet. Don't make excuses.

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Speaker 5: Don't go through life thinking I've got a disadvantage. I've

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Speaker 5: got too many obstacles. I'm the wrong nationality, I come

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Speaker 5: from the wrong family. I don't have the connections. I

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Speaker 5: could never get out of this environment. No, you may

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Speaker 5: not see how you can get out, but the good

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Speaker 5: news is God does.

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Speaker 4: He already has a way.

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Speaker 5: And your destiny is not determined by how you were raised,

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Speaker 5: or by your circumstances, or by how many odds are

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Speaker 5: against you. Your destiny is determined by the creator of

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Speaker 5: the universe.

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Speaker 4: And if you will take what God has.

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Speaker 5: Given you and make the most of it, just like

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Speaker 5: with chie Chee, God will open up the right doors,

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Speaker 5: He'll give you the right breaks, and he'll bring the

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Speaker 5: right people across your path. I'm asking us today to

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Speaker 5: get rid of the excuses. Quit waiting for things to change,

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Speaker 5: and then you're going to be happy. No, so is

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Speaker 5: see and be happy right now when you're in difficult times. Remember,

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Speaker 5: God's either doing a work in you or He's using

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Speaker 5: you to do a work in someone else. But as

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Speaker 5: long as you're in faith, where you are is where

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Speaker 5: you're supposed to be. Fighting against everything trying to get

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Speaker 5: somewhere else, and just start being the best that you

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Speaker 5: can be right where you are. If you will make

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Speaker 5: this decision to bloom where you're planted, then you are

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Speaker 5: passing the test. God promises he will pour out his

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Speaker 5: blessings in favor. You will not only live your life happy,

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Speaker 5: but God will take you places that you've never even

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Speaker 5: dreamed of. And I believe in declare you will become

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Speaker 5: everything God's created you to be, and you will have

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Speaker 5: everything God intended for you to have.

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