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Speaker 5: something funny, and I heard about these four Catholic ladies.

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Speaker 5: They were bragging on their sons. The first one said,

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Speaker 5: everyone calls him father. The second said, my son is

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Speaker 5: a bishop. When he walks in the room, everyone calls

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Speaker 5: him your grace. The third said, my son is a cardinal.

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Speaker 5: When he walks in the room, everyone calls him your eminence.

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Speaker 5: Fourth lady said, my son is six foot three, has

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Speaker 5: my God. All right, come on, 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'll 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's name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about don't waste

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Speaker 4: We all go.

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Speaker 5: Through disappointments, setbacks, loss, pain is a part of life.

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Speaker 5: It's easy to get discouraged, even bitter. I think, why

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Speaker 5: God has put a period.

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Speaker 4: All of us have things we don't understand.

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Speaker 5: One reason is we can't see the big picture for

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Speaker 5: As a whole, it's fantastic, so beautiful. But if you

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Speaker 4: This funny looking peace. It's a mistake. It's not gonna

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Speaker 5: It's an odd shape, there's nothing beautiful about it. But

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Speaker 5: In the same way, sometimes we look at pieces in

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Speaker 5: our lives that don't make sense, Joel, I went through

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Speaker 5: My business went down. This piece couldn't be a part

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Speaker 4: Pain will change us.

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Speaker 5: Heartache, loss, disappointments, they don't leave us the same.

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Speaker 4: When I lost my father, I didn't come out like

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Speaker 5: friend betrays you, eventually that will pass. You'll get through it,

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Speaker 5: You can come out better or you can come out better.

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Speaker 5: greater confidence in God. You can come out defeated, giving

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Speaker 5: My challenge, don't just go through it, grow through it.

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Speaker 5: That difficulty is an opportunity to get stronger, to develop character,

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Speaker 5: to gain new confidence. Anybody can give up, anybody can

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Speaker 4: That pain is not there to stop you.

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Speaker 5: It's there to prepare you, to increase you, to develop you.

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Speaker 5: The scripture talks about how God is in control not

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Speaker 4: The enemy may turn on the.

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Speaker 5: God would have turned back the intensity. In those tough times,

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Speaker 5: I may be in this fire, but I know who

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Speaker 5: the God who is for me and not against me,

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Speaker 5: not going to let it get too hot. He's not

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Speaker 4: I may not like it, but I'm not a whiner.

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Speaker 4: I'm a warrior. I know I can handle this.

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Speaker 5: You have that attitude, you'll come out stronger, increase, promoted,

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Speaker 5: Every struggle is making you stronger. Every difficulty is growing

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Speaker 5: Researchers did an experiment with bumblebees. They took them up

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Speaker 5: But the problem was they weren't created to not have

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Speaker 5: Difficulties are a part of life. Have the right perspective

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Speaker 5: He's got his hand on the thermostat. Now quit telling

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Speaker 5: the fire is so hot is because God has something

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Speaker 5: next level of your destiny. See, God doesn't just randomly say,

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Speaker 5: him with some marriage problems. There is a purpose for

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Speaker 5: the pain. We may not always understand it. Joe, Why

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Speaker 5: Why did my marriage not make it? I can't answer that,

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Speaker 4: This is what faith is all about. God.

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Speaker 5: I don't like the pain, but I trust you. I

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna just go through it. I'm gonna grow

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Speaker 5: count it all joy, knowing that this pain is leading

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Speaker 4: Sometimes we bring pain on ourselves.

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Speaker 5: We make poor choicest relationship we know is not good,

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Speaker 5: or maybe get over our head and our spending. Now

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Speaker 4: And God is full of mercy.

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Speaker 5: He'll always give us the grace to get out of it.

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Speaker 5: But the way to not waste your pain is you

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Speaker 5: Joel, when you talk about your father and how much

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Speaker 5: you loved him, and how you stepped up to pastor,

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Speaker 5: to the church that helped me to overcome when my

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Speaker 5: loved one went to be with the Lord. With the

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Speaker 5: comfort I've received, I can share that comfort with others.

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Speaker 4: We all have something to give. We've all been through.

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Speaker 5: A hurt, a loss of disappointment. Don't see it as

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Speaker 5: all men. This is so bad now. You may not

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Speaker 5: have liked it, but there's a purpose for that pain.

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Speaker 5: I saw a report on the news about this lady.

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Speaker 4: She was a larger woman.

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Speaker 5: She'd always been perfectly healthy, but she started feeling a

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Speaker 4: Couldn't figure out what was wrong.

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Speaker 5: Over the next few months, her back started hurting, her

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Speaker 5: feet swelling, couldn't sleep at night.

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Speaker 4: She went to the doctor early on.

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Speaker 5: They thought it was some kind of virus that would

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Speaker 5: soon pass, But month after month, different symptoms popped up.

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Speaker 5: She was uncomfortable, swollen, gaining weight.

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Speaker 4: She didn't like it.

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Speaker 5: One day, she started feeling incredible pains in her stomach area.

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Speaker 5: She tried to endure it, thinking that it would pass,

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Speaker 5: but kept getting worse and worse, and finally she couldn't

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Speaker 5: take it any longer. In excruciating pain, she had her

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Speaker 5: husband rush her to the emergency room.

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Speaker 4: The doctor examined her.

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Speaker 5: Said, I know exactly what's wrong. Ninety minutes later he

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Speaker 5: handed her her new baby boy. She was pregnant and

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Speaker 5: didn't know it. All those symptoms she was feeling, the pain, discomfort, nausey.

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Speaker 5: There was a purpose for it. A change was taking place.

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Speaker 5: She was about to give birth. Many times like her,

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Speaker 5: we're pregnant and we don't know it.

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Speaker 4: All we can feel is the pain. God, I'm uncomfortable.

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Speaker 4: The pain is a sign you're about to give birth.

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Speaker 5: If you'll stay in faith, eventually the pain will pass.

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Speaker 5: You'll give birth to new strength, new talent, new ministry,

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Speaker 5: new charity, new friendships, a new level. The pain is

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Speaker 5: for a purpose, A change is taking place. When you're

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Speaker 5: in a difficult time, don't focus on the pain. Focus

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Speaker 5: on the fact that a new level is coming. The

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Speaker 5: scripture says Jesus endured the pain of the Cross looking

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Speaker 5: forward to the joy that was set before him.

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Speaker 4: If you only focus on where you are on the pain,

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Speaker 4: you'll get negative. Have a new perspective, the right perspective. God.

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Speaker 5: I don't like this situation, but I know this pain

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Speaker 5: is not here to stop me.

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Speaker 4: It's here to promote me.

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Speaker 5: It's a sign I'm about to give birth to something new.

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Speaker 4: That's what my friends Craig and Samantha did.

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Speaker 5: Craig, at the time, was the head of our children's

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Speaker 5: ministry at Lakewood. They had two beautiful children. Samantha was

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Speaker 5: expecting the third child. When little Connor was born, they

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Speaker 5: soon realized something.

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Speaker 4: Wasn't quite right.

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Speaker 5: He wasn't talking, developing as fast as other children. Connor

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Speaker 5: was diagnosed with autism. And while they loved Connor just

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Speaker 5: as much, of course, they were a little taken aback

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Speaker 5: by it. It's not what they were expecting. But Craig

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Speaker 5: and Samantha understand this principle. They didn't put a question

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Speaker 5: mark where God put a period. They knew the reason

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Speaker 5: they had Connor was because.

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Speaker 4: God could trust them. They didn't waste their pain.

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Speaker 5: Craig told me how at that time we didn't have

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Speaker 5: any classes for special needs children here at the church.

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Speaker 5: Many parents couldn't attend them main service like this because

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Speaker 5: their children needed constant attention. He said, Joel, why don't

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Speaker 5: we start a special needs class for these children. We

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Speaker 5: can call it the Champions Club. In that time of pain,

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Speaker 5: Craig recognized he was pregnant. He was about to give

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Speaker 5: birth to something new. We started our Champions Club. The

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Speaker 5: first few months, three hundred new families joined the church.

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Speaker 4: Other churches heard about it.

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Speaker 5: Craig helped them launch their own special needs class. Today,

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Speaker 5: there are over thirty Champions Clubs in seven different nations.

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Speaker 4: Around the world. Here's what I'm saying. When it's painful,

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Speaker 4: don't get discouraged. Get ready. You're about to give birth.

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Speaker 5: That discomforts your feeling. It's not just a random pain.

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Speaker 5: Those are birth pains. There's a blessing in that pain.

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Speaker 5: There's a gift in that pain. There's a ministry in

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Speaker 5: the pain. There's a new level in that pain. Don't

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Speaker 5: waste it. Do like Craig, be on the lookout. Look

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Speaker 5: for opportunities. You can encourage somebody else. Can God trust

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Speaker 5: you with that pain? Will you get negative, bitter or

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Speaker 5: will you say God, I don't understand it, but I

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Speaker 5: know there's a purpose for this pain. Remember, God has

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Speaker 5: his hand on the thermostat.

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Speaker 4: If it was too much, he would have cut back

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Speaker 4: the heat. Don't just go through it, grow through it.

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Speaker 5: If you'll do this, I believe and declare, your pain

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Speaker 5: is about to be turned into your gain. You're gonna

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Speaker 5: come out stronger, increase, promoted, new levels out of that pain.

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Speaker 5: It's going to birth you into the fullness of your

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Speaker 5: destiny in Jesus's name.

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Speaker 4: If you receive it today, can you say amen?

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