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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. Thanks so much for letting us come

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Speaker 1: into your homes, and if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 1: please stop by and be a part of one of

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Speaker 1: our services. I promise you we'll make you feel right

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Speaker 1: at home. But thanks so much for tuning in, and

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Speaker 1: thank you again for coming out. I'd like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this man that

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Speaker 1: was very stingy with his money, and just before his death,

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Speaker 1: he made his wife promise him that she would have

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Speaker 1: him buried with the fifty thousand dollars he had saved.

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Speaker 1: The wife reluctantly agreed, and at the funeral, before they

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Speaker 1: closed the casket, she snuck in this small wooden box.

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Speaker 1: Her friend said, surely you didn't just bury the money,

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Speaker 1: did you. The wife said, of course I did. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Christian. I can't lie. She said, you mean you

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Speaker 1: just buried fifty thousand dollars. The wife said, yes, I

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Speaker 1: did I wrote a check. Hold up your Bible, say

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Speaker 1: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 1: am what it says I am. I have what it

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Speaker 1: says I have. I can do what it says I

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Speaker 1: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 1: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is recepted.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: just do it. Sometimes God asks us to do things

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Speaker 1: that don't make sense, doesn't seem logical, doesn't fit into

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Speaker 1: our budget, doesn't line up with our schedule. God you

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Speaker 1: want me to go back to college. I'm forty years old.

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Speaker 1: God you want me to give them a gift. I

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Speaker 1: was saving those funds for my own dreams. Or God

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Speaker 1: you want me to lead this secure position that I've

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Speaker 1: had for years and start my own business. Too often

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Speaker 1: we overanalyze it, we debate it, look at it only

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Speaker 1: in the natural. We end up making excuses, talking ourselves

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Speaker 1: out of it. That couldn't be God. But if you're

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Speaker 1: going to reach your highest potential, you have to have

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Speaker 1: bold obedience that means you obey even when you don't

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Speaker 1: understand it, you just do it, even when it doesn't

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Speaker 1: make sense. That's what faith is all about. If you

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Speaker 1: can understand everything, you have, the time, the money, it's

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Speaker 1: all lined up. That doesn't really take any faith. God

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Speaker 1: will ask you to do things that seem far out, unusual,

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Speaker 1: not practical. With every act of obedience, there is a

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Speaker 1: blessing attached to it. When you do what you know

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Speaker 1: will follow. God rewards obedience. One time Jesus made mud,

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Speaker 1: put it on a blind man's eyes. He told him

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Speaker 1: Jesus could have just as easily healed the blind man

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Speaker 1: then and there and sent him on his way. But

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Speaker 1: obedience activates God's power. He put the ball back in

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Speaker 1: the blind man's court. He said, in effect, if you

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Speaker 1: want to be healed, you're going to have to do

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Speaker 1: something that doesn't make sense, something that's not logical. You're

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Speaker 1: going to have to show that you trust me and

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Speaker 1: go wash this off in the pool. The blind man

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Speaker 1: could have wiped the mud off with his own hands

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Speaker 1: He could have thought, I'm blind, I have these disadvantages.

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Speaker 1: The healing wasn't in the water. The healing was in

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Speaker 1: the obedience. When you obey, dreams come to pass. When

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Speaker 1: you obey, health is restored. When you obey, problems turn around.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many miracles we would see if we

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Speaker 1: would simply do what we know we're supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: Are you talking yourself out of something because it's not

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Speaker 1: you'll see God's favor in a new way. When Joshua

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Speaker 1: and the Israelites needed to get across the Jordan River.

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Speaker 1: God said he would open it up, but they had

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Speaker 1: and thoughts said you better turn around. You're making a mistake.

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Speaker 1: is that bold obedience? About that time the river supernaturally parted,

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Speaker 1: If you're going to make it to your promised land,

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Speaker 1: it's going to take this bold obedience. You're not always

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Speaker 1: going to understand what God is doing. God is not

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Speaker 1: always logical. The scripture says, His ways are not our ways.

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Speaker 1: And take this in the right sense. Sometimes you have

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Speaker 1: to turn your mind off if you overanalyze it, look

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Speaker 1: at it only in the natural. You'll never get off

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Speaker 1: a dead sinner. Faith is not in your head. Faith

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Speaker 1: is in your heart. Down in here. You'll know the

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Speaker 1: right thing to do. Up here. You'll have a thousand excuses,

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Speaker 1: You've got to turn your mind off and listen to

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Speaker 1: your heart. That's what I did in nineteen ninety nine

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Speaker 1: step up and pasture the church. I felt it so

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Speaker 1: make sense. I had never ministered before, never been to seminary.

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Speaker 1: I said, God, this doesn't make sense to me. But

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Speaker 1: you know what's best for my life. As I stepped

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Speaker 1: that's when the water's parted. God's taken me places I've

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Speaker 1: the waters to part. Then you're going to take a

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Speaker 1: step of faith, But your obedience is what causes the

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Speaker 1: water to part. You're waiting on God, but God's waiting

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Speaker 1: on you. If you'll do what you know God's asking

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Speaker 1: you to do. Your obedience will activate, the favor, the

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Speaker 1: Will you obey even when you don't understand it? Will

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Speaker 1: make sense. Back in the nineteen sixties, Lakewood was still

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Speaker 1: offering for a new building. He asked them to see

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Speaker 1: about it, and he encouraged them to stretch their faith,

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Speaker 1: to believe big, and to do their very best. He

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Speaker 1: But one day, driving home from church, my father passed

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Speaker 1: a small Spanish church about six blocks from Lakewood. This

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Speaker 1: years they would build and take time off, build some more,

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Speaker 1: on and on. As my father passed, he heard a

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Speaker 1: That could not be God. He began to reason it out. God,

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Speaker 1: you mean you want me to give the money. I

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Speaker 1: just raised the money. We need the money. We've been

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Speaker 1: dreaming about money, We've been praying for it. You want

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Speaker 1: Didn't make sense, didn't seem logical. He needed the funds,

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Speaker 1: Yet God said, sow it as a seed. My father

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Speaker 1: had this bold obedience. He said, all right God. He

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Speaker 1: the next few months, people began to come from nowhere

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Speaker 1: giving money to the Lakewood New Sanctuary. They not only

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Speaker 1: had enough for the foundation, but enough for the whole building.

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Speaker 1: A year later, they moved into a one thousand seat sanctuary,

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Speaker 1: totally debt free. You can't outgive God. When God asked

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Speaker 1: you to do something, just do it. If you talk

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Speaker 1: not being blessed, but you're missing the blessing God has

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Speaker 1: for you. How many times have I taught myself out

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Speaker 1: you obey, a blessing is always attached to it. Eight

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Speaker 1: years ago, we moved out of our old sanctuary from

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Speaker 1: away and just reflecting on all that God had done

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Speaker 1: makeshift marquis, thank you Lakewood for giving us our first sanctuary.

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Speaker 1: They remembered it forty years later. I thought, how we

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Speaker 1: were headed to displace a four hundred million dollar facility.

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Speaker 1: But it all started over four decades ago when my

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Speaker 1: didn't understand it, even when Lakewood needed the funds, he

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Speaker 1: was willing to give it away. Now I realized I

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Speaker 1: am reaping a harvest from seeds that were sown many

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Speaker 1: know where God is going to take you. You don't

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Speaker 1: argue with God, you don't reason it out, you don't

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Speaker 1: God is going to open, not only for you, but

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Speaker 1: for your children. I'm sure my father is looking down

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Speaker 1: from heaven right now thinking I never dreamed Lakewood would

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Speaker 1: be where it is today. That's what happens when you

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Speaker 1: have bold obedience. We can all obey when it's easy,

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Speaker 1: when it makes sense, when it's logical, when it doesn't

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Speaker 1: take any extra effort. Yeah, Joel, I'll go to church,

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Speaker 1: I'll tithe my income, I'll be kind to people. I

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Speaker 1: have a good attitude that doesn't really take much faith.

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Speaker 1: But what about when it's out of the ordinary and

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Speaker 1: God asks you to not only go to church, but

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Speaker 1: swing by and pick up that couple that's struggling and

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Speaker 1: bring them to church with you each week. God, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, I got a full time job. I'm raising

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Speaker 1: these children. I'm very busy. And God, they live twenty

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Speaker 1: Just turn your mind off and listen to your heart.

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Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. If you'll make a decision

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Speaker 1: to just do it, then I believe and declare. Because

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Speaker 1: Because you have bold obedience, God's going to do something

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Speaker 1: amazing in your life. Like Isaac, the seeds you've sown

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Speaker 1: are going to be multiplied back to you, And like Abraham,

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Speaker 1: God's going to thrust you into the fullness of your destiny,

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Speaker 1: taking you further than you ever even dreamed of. In

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Speaker 1: geh name, If you receive it today, can you say amen?

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Speaker 1: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 1: repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 1: you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer,

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Speaker 1: we believe you got born again. Get in a good

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Speaker 1: Bible based church, Keep God first place. He's going to

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Speaker 1: take you places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: Three minutes. Can such a small amount of time make

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Speaker 2: a big difference to your day? To turn worry into confidence,

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Speaker 2: frustration to hope, defeat to victory. Maybe you just need

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Speaker 2: a boost of faith.

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Speaker 1: When we put God first place and get our thinking

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Speaker 1: can make a huge difference. We have a new resource

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Speaker 1: called three minute Mornings. Start your day the blessed way.

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Speaker 1: My challenge is when you wake up, before you leave

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Speaker 1: life and to declare God's favor. Get your mind going

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. When you do that, you're setting

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Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 2: of any size to the ministry, this month, Joel and

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Speaker 2: Victoria would like to send you this just released life

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Speaker 2: giving new daily devotional. Before your feet hit the ground

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Speaker 2: bit of heaven. Set your mind on the things above

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Speaker 2: with our new three minute Mornings devotional. With this new

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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five day devotional three minute Mornings,

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Speaker 2: You'll experience God showering down his favor like never before.

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Speaker 2: You'll focus on the better that is coming and fully

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Speaker 2: realize the freedom of not worrying about tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Victoria, I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Make

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Speaker 1: it a difference all over the world. Remember you can

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Speaker 1: watch the services online every Sunday morning, download our daily podcast,

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Speaker 1: listen on Sirius XM. But until we meet again, met

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Speaker 1: the Lord bless you and keep you.

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