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Speaker 5: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you,

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Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in and thank you

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Speaker 5: again for coming out. I like to start with something

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Speaker 5: funny and heard about these two little boys, ages four

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Speaker 4: They went to their room, got down on their knees.

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Speaker 5: The youngest boy started praying at the top of his lungs. God,

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Speaker 5: His brother punched him and said, why are you screaming?

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Speaker 5: God isn't death. He said, I know that, But grandmother

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Speaker 5: is hold up your bible. Say it like you mean it.

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

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

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about having an excellent spirit.

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Speaker 5: We live in a society where mediocrity is the norm.

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Speaker 5: Many people do as little as they can to get by.

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Speaker 5: They don't take pride in their work and pride in

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Speaker 5: And if we're not careful, we'll get pulled into this

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Speaker 4: But I've learned.

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Speaker 5: God doesn't bless mediocrity. God blesses excellence. When you have

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Speaker 5: Other people may complain, they may go out looking sloppy

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Speaker 5: They're always on time, they always have a good attitude.

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Speaker 5: But do you know it honors God to get to

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Speaker 5: work on time. It honors God to be productive each day.

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Speaker 5: It honors God to go out looking your best. When

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Speaker 5: reading your life. They're watching how you live. Now, don't

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Speaker 5: Jesus said it in Matthew five point forty one. If

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Speaker 5: That means, if you're supposed to be at work at eight,

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Speaker 5: Some people go to work fifteen minutes late, walk around

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Speaker 5: rewards excellence. One time in the scripture, Abraham told his

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Speaker 5: A camel after a long day's walk can drink thirty

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Speaker 5: She had a one gallon bucket, she was saying, yes,

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Speaker 5: Plus I'll dip down three hundred more times to get

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Speaker 5: She is chosen to marry Isaac, who comes from the

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Speaker 5: draw three hundred gallons of water. Ever again, friends, God

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Speaker 5: rewards excellence. When you do more than what's required of you,

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Speaker 5: you'll see God's goodness in a new way. Well, you say, Joel,

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Speaker 5: I'm declaring God's favor. I'm declaring promotion and increasing it's coming.

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Speaker 5: But the second part is are you getting to work

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Speaker 5: Your company shouldn't get along nearly as well without you.

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Speaker 4: We can always get better.

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Speaker 5: People that watch on television say, Joel, we never hear

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Speaker 5: I realize this building represents Almighty God. That's why we

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Speaker 5: Why we represent God and God is not sloppy. God

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Speaker 4: Clean and first class? Now take this to your own life,

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Speaker 5: I'm not asking you to spend a lot of money.

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Speaker 4: Couldn't help but notice it just one house after another,

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Speaker 5: They said, oh, yeah, Joel, that's so and so's house.

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Speaker 5: There's some of our most faithful members. I thought, that

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Speaker 5: doesn't surprise me. Lake people are people of excellence. They

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Speaker 5: Now they could have had the attitude. Nobody takes care

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Speaker 5: they have a spirit of excellence.

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Speaker 4: You may be in a.

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Speaker 5: to clean up my house. No, not just that, mow

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Speaker 5: your lawn too. But seriously, what kind of witness is

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Speaker 5: it to our friends, our neighbors, our co workers. If

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Speaker 5: And the truth is, that's not who you really are.

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Speaker 5: you've seen modeled is mediocrity. But God is calling you

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Speaker 5: Don't make excuses or this is the way I've always been,

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Speaker 4: Go get your nails done, get your hair done, get.

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Speaker 4: It's scriptural to.

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Speaker 5: Take care of yourself in an excellent way. Some of

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Speaker 4: Clothes in twenty seven years. That your you wear has

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Speaker 5: You're an excellent worker. You're a great provider for your family.

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Speaker 5: I just worked out, and I was very hot and sweaty,

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Speaker 4: Nobody would see me.

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Speaker 5: I turned around, went back home, took a shower, comb

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Speaker 4: I went back up.

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Speaker 5: To the grocery store and picked up those TV dinners

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Speaker 5: We represent Almighty God, and God does not like sloppiness,

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Speaker 4: Get you something new.

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Speaker 5: Oh, Joel, it's so comfortable, it's so sentimental. I've had

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Speaker 4: It's ugly.

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Speaker 5: The truth is you're too beautiful to wear that thing.

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Speaker 5: There's a certain store. I don't want to give away

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Speaker 5: Now you men can thank me later. When you're at

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Speaker 4: A person of excellence takes it where it belongs.

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Speaker 5: Somebody that has a spirit of excellence doesn't park in

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Speaker 4: Well. Victoria lights everything super clean.

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Speaker 5: And even though the place where the water comes out

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Speaker 4: It's no way germs could get up in there. Didn't matter.

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Speaker 5: Victoria lights to wipe down the whole bottle with soap

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Speaker 5: But there were plenty of times I was in the

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Speaker 4: Nobody could see me.

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Speaker 5: I'm tired, I don't feel like struggling with this bottle

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Speaker 4: I get it almost up.

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Speaker 5: And I hear that still small voice, and Joel be

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Speaker 4: You gave your.

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Speaker 4: What am I saying?

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Speaker 5: A person of excellence does the right thing, even when

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Speaker 4: God.

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Speaker 5: What my boss is asking me to do is not right,

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Speaker 4: God. I didn't make the mess. I shouldn't have to

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Speaker 5: Some people are not seeing God's favor like they should

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Speaker 4: Being more excellent.

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Speaker 5: May not be some huge adjustment you need to make.

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Speaker 5: The scripture says, it's the little foxes that spoil the vines.

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Speaker 5: If I were to put that water on the dispenser

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Speaker 5: week after week without washing it, nobody would have known

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Speaker 5: except me and God. I could have gotten away with it.

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Speaker 4: But here's the key.

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Speaker 5: I don't want something small to keep God from releasing

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Speaker 5: something big into my life. Are there areas where you

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Speaker 5: know God's dealing with you about coming up higher? Anytime

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Speaker 5: God asked you to do something, if you will obey

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Speaker 5: a reward.

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Speaker 4: We'll follow.

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Speaker 5: One time I was in a parking lot and it

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Speaker 5: was very windy outside, and when I opened my car door,

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Speaker 5: several pieces of newspaper flew out, and as I reached

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Speaker 5: down to pick them up, the wind caught them and

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Speaker 5: they blew fifteen or twenty feet in different directions. I

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Speaker 5: didn't feel like going picking that up. I looked in

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Speaker 5: the parking lot. There was already a whole lot of

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Speaker 5: other trash there. I was in a hurry.

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Speaker 4: I was tired.

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Speaker 5: I came up with all these excuses as to why

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Speaker 5: I didn't need to pick up my trash. Almost convinced

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Speaker 5: myself the last moment I decided to be a person

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Speaker 5: of excellence.

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Speaker 4: I ended up running around that whole parking lot.

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Speaker 5: My mind was saying, Joel, what are you doing out here?

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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter, just let it go. Finally got it

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Speaker 5: picked up, came back to my car. What I didn't

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Speaker 5: realize is there was a couple sitting in the car

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Speaker 5: next to me watching all this take place. They rolled

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Speaker 5: down their window and said, Joel, we watch you on

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Speaker 5: television every week.

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Speaker 4: I'll never forget what the lady said. We were watching

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Speaker 4: to see what you were going to do. Thought, Oh,

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Speaker 4: thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 5: Whether you realize it or not, people are watching you,

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Speaker 5: even in small areas. Make sure you're representing God in

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Speaker 5: a great way. In the Book of Daniel, it talks

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Speaker 5: about how he had an excellent spirit as a teenager.

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Speaker 5: He was brought out of Judah into Babylon. The king

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Speaker 5: was training all these young men, and the best ones,

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Speaker 5: the smartest, the strongest, the most talented, would become the

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Speaker 5: next leaders. They had a certain diet to eat, certain

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Speaker 5: program to follow. But Daniel had made a vow to

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Speaker 5: God that he would always honor him. The Babylonians were

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Speaker 5: worshiping idols. Daniel was respectful, but he wouldn't eat the

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Speaker 5: king's fancy food. He didn't just follow along and do

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Speaker 5: what everyone else was doing.

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Speaker 4: He made more excellent choices.

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Speaker 5: In Daniel chapter six, it says Daniel so distinguished himself

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Speaker 5: by his exceptional qualities that the king planned on putting

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Speaker 5: him in charge of the whole kingdom. Notice it doesn't

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Speaker 5: say that God distinguished Daniel and he got promoted.

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Speaker 4: It says he distinguished himself.

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Speaker 5: The message translation says he totally outclassed.

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Speaker 4: Those around him.

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Speaker 5: That's what happens when number one, you'll honor God with

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Speaker 5: your life, and number two, you have a spirit of excellence.

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Speaker 4: You don't compromise.

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Speaker 5: You don't just go with the flow do what everybody

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Speaker 5: else is doing. Like Daniel, you make the more excellent decisions.

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Speaker 5: It goes on to tell how Daniel was ten times

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Speaker 5: smarter than the other young men. When you have an

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Speaker 5: excellent spirit, God will give you unprecedented favor, creativity, ideas

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Speaker 5: that will cause you to stand out. You will outclass

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Speaker 5: in humility those around you that are not honoring God.

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Speaker 5: My question today, are you distinguishing yourself? Are you going

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Speaker 5: the extra mile, doing more than you have to, making

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Speaker 5: the more excellent choices. God is always dealing with us

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Speaker 5: about some area to come up higher in. Maybe it's

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Speaker 5: to be more excellent in how you treat people more excellent,

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Speaker 5: and how you present yourself more excellent.

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Speaker 4: When it comes to your career and improving your skills.

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Speaker 4: Don't let something small.

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Speaker 5: Keep God from releasing something big into your life.

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Speaker 4: You are called to be a cut above.

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Speaker 5: You have excellence on the inside, now stir it up

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Speaker 5: and bring it to the outside. Now I believe and

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Speaker 5: declare today because I'm looking at people of excellence. God

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Speaker 5: is going to give you more wisdom, more ideas, more strength,

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Speaker 5: more creativity.

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Speaker 4: Like Daniel, You're going.

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Speaker 5: To outclass, outperform, outshine. God is going to promote you,

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Speaker 5: put you in a place of honor, and you will

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Speaker 5: fulfill your God given destiny.

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Speaker 4: In Jesus' name. If you receive it, can you say amen.

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Speaker 4: We never like to.

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Speaker 5: Close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 5: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 5: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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