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Speaker 4: something funny, and I heard about this husband and wife.

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Speaker 4: They'd been arguing for a long time about who should

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Speaker 4: several heated debates, she finally said to her husband, I

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Speaker 4: can prove to you from the Bible that it's the

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Speaker 4: man's job to make the coffee. He said, what are

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Speaker 4: She opened her Bible and pointed to the Book of Hebrews.

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Speaker 4: Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am,

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I

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Speaker 4: want to talk to you today about living large. We

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Speaker 4: weren't created to live a small life with little goals,

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Speaker 4: god of increase. He has something bigger in your future.

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Speaker 4: And if you're going to live this large life, it

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Speaker 4: starts in our thinking. Jesus said, you can't put new

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Speaker 4: the biggest battles that we all face is the battle

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Speaker 4: Just accept it. You'll never get well you saw the

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Speaker 4: medical WRO, or you'll never meet the right person. It's

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Speaker 4: Don't believe those lives. He wouldn't be fighting you so

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Speaker 4: Paul said in Second Corinthian six, I want you to

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Speaker 4: enter into this wide open, spacious life. The smallness you

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Speaker 4: you're living them in a small way. Notice God's dream

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Speaker 4: we're living small on a regular basis. You have to

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Speaker 4: stir up your faith, stir up your gifts, stir up

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Speaker 4: Whatever level you're at, don't get stuck and stay there

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Speaker 4: in God's eyes, it's a small place. He has new

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Speaker 4: The Scripture puts it this way. The path of the

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Speaker 4: at all. God's idea of living large is much different

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Speaker 4: My challenge is don't live with a small mentality. Don't

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Speaker 4: has created you for more. Well, you said, Joel, I'm

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Speaker 4: Why don't you start letting down your nets? Why don't

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Speaker 4: His father said, Stevie, put this in your top drawer.

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Speaker 4: Every morning before you go to school. Every night, before

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Speaker 4: be on television. He did that, year after year after year. Today,

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Speaker 4: Who told you you can't do something great, Who told

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