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

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Speaker 1: Have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, God

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Speaker 1: finest people in all of Houston, Texas right here at

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Speaker 1: Lake Fold. But thanks so much for tuning in. Thank

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Speaker 1: you again for coming out. I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about this positive farmer.

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Speaker 2: And negative farmer. When it would rain, the.

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Speaker 1: Positive farmer will say, Lord, thank you for watering our crops.

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Speaker 1: The negative farmer say, yeah, but if it keeps this up,

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Speaker 1: it's going to rock the roots. When the sun would

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Speaker 1: come out, positive farmer, Lord, thank you for giving our

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Speaker 1: plants valuable nutrients. Negative farmers, Yeah, but if it keeps

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Speaker 1: this up, it's going to scorch the crops. One day

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Speaker 1: they were in a boat bird hunting together, and the

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Speaker 1: positive farm just got a brand new bird dog, and

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Speaker 1: he was so proud of him. He shot a bird.

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Speaker 1: It fell in the water. Said to the negative farmer,

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Speaker 1: watch this. The dog jumped out of the boat, ran

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Speaker 1: on top of the water, picked up the bird, ran

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Speaker 2: Put it in the boat. Said what do you think

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Speaker 2: about that?

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Speaker 1: Negative farmer said, I should have known it. That dog

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Speaker 1: can't even swim. Hold up your bible, say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about it's too small. We

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Speaker 1: all have dreams and gulls, and we do our best

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Speaker 1: to stretch our faith and believe that one day, if

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Speaker 1: we work hard enough and get the right breaks, meet

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Speaker 1: the right people, we'll see that dream come to pass.

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Speaker 2: In our mind.

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Speaker 1: That would be big, a great accomplishment. But what's big

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Speaker 1: to us is not big to God. He created universes,

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Speaker 1: He spoke worlds into existence. God's dream for your life

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Speaker 1: is so much bigger than your own. We think, if

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Speaker 1: I could just pay my house off, that would be

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Speaker 1: a dream come true.

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Speaker 2: God says that's too small.

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Speaker 1: I want to bless you so you not only pay

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Speaker 1: your house off, but so you can help others pay

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Speaker 1: their houses off. Or we think, if I could just

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Speaker 1: get that promotion at work, be able to run my department.

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Speaker 1: God says that's too small. I want you to run

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Speaker 1: that whole company. Or if I could just overcome this illness,

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Speaker 1: if I could just get back on my feet again,

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Speaker 1: that would be so great.

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Speaker 2: God says that's too small.

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Speaker 1: You're not only going to get back on your feet,

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Speaker 1: You're going to run again. You're going to feel better

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Speaker 1: than you've ever felt. See, we think ordinary, God thinks

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Speaker 1: ex ordinary. Whatever you're dreaming about, whatever you're believing for,

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Speaker 1: God is saying it's too small. He's going to supersize it.

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Speaker 1: He's an overflow God. Ef Esian says, God can do exceedingly, abundantly,

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Speaker 1: above and beyond what we think. Why don't you take

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Speaker 1: the limits off of God. You may not see away,

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Speaker 1: but God has a way. One touch of God's favor

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Speaker 1: can take you further than you could go on your own.

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Speaker 2: In a lifetime.

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Speaker 1: God did not create you to live a little life

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Speaker 1: with little dreams, little goals, little passion, little influence, little house.

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Speaker 1: God thinks big, he thinks abundance, he thinks expansive.

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Speaker 2: He told the Israelites, I am bringing you into.

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Speaker 1: God has something bigger, something better, something more rewarding in

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Speaker 2: Don't get comfortable where you are.

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Speaker 1: It's easy, they well, Joel, God's blessed me. I'm happy,

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Speaker 2: That's good. Always be grateful.

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Speaker 1: Learn to be happy where you are, But don't settle

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Speaker 1: where you are. God never performs his greatest victories in

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Speaker 2: They're always in the future.

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Speaker 1: What God has done, the promotion, the good, breaks, the

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Speaker 2: That was a small thing.

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Speaker 1: You haven't touched the surface of what God has in store.

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Speaker 2: He's going to open doors you never dreamed would open.

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Speaker 1: He's going to bring talent out of you that you

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Speaker 1: didn't know you had. You're going to see explosive blessings,

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Speaker 1: blessings that thrust you to a new level. What you

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Speaker 1: think is big right now, that house, God blessed you

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Speaker 1: with the scholarship, the promotion, the contract. One day you'll

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Speaker 1: look back and realize that was a small thing. In

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Speaker 1: the scripture, Joseph was falsely accused and put in prison.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine him praying year after year, God, please

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Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong. That was his dream to one

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Speaker 1: I'm not only going to bring you out of prison.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to make you ruler over the whole nation.

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Speaker 1: In a few years, when Joseph was in charge over

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Speaker 1: all of Egypt, I'm sure there were nights he went

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Speaker 1: I never dreamed you would put me here. I was

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Speaker 1: just praying to get out of prison. But God, you

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Speaker 1: supersized what I was dreaming about. He realized he was

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Speaker 1: thinking way too small. Like Joseph, matter what you're praying about,

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Speaker 1: whatever you're believing for, it may be big in your mind,

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Speaker 1: but in God's mind, it's a small thing. God, just

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Speaker 1: help me to pay my bills, help me to make

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Speaker 1: it through this month. God says that's too small. He

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Speaker 1: wants to bring you into overflow. He wants you to

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Speaker 1: I'm so lonely. Just bring somebody into my life. I

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Speaker 1: don't care at this point. God, I'll take anybody.

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Speaker 2: No, you may have settled, but God didn't settle.

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Speaker 1: He's going to bring somebody into your life greater than

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Speaker 1: you imagine. Somebody that honors him, somebody that loves you.

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Speaker 1: That's fun, that's talented, it's well off, that's good looking.

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Speaker 2: Throw that in there too. You got to stir your

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Speaker 1: The only way this is going to help is if

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Speaker 1: you let the seed take root. It's easy to think, Wow,

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Speaker 1: this isn't for me today, Joe.

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Speaker 2: You don't know my situation.

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Speaker 1: I've been through a lot of disappointments. My dreams look impossible. No,

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Speaker 1: don't talk yourself out of it. You don't have to

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Speaker 2: All you have to do is believe. Just say yes, God,

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Speaker 2: this is for me.

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Speaker 1: I believe your plans for me are bigger than I

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Speaker 2: That you have something amazing in my future. So I'm

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Speaker 1: When the Israelites were in slavery, they were forced to

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Speaker 1: make bricks all day long. They were given quotas that

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Speaker 1: their own straw. No doubt, they prayed, God, please give

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Speaker 1: get upset. We're not going to make our quotas. They

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Speaker 1: In effect, they were praying to become a better slave.

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Speaker 1: God said, that's too small. I don't want to make

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Speaker 1: you a better slave. I want to bring you totally

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Speaker 1: out of that bondage. I created you as the head

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Speaker 1: and not the tail, the victor and not the victim.

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Speaker 1: But too often, like them, we're praying to become a

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Speaker 1: better slave. God, just help me to endure this sickness. God,

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Speaker 1: just give me a roof over my head and I'll

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Speaker 1: be happy. God just help me to learn to live

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Speaker 1: with my depression. No, it's not your depression. Quit praying

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Speaker 2: A better slave. That's too small for you. God wants

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Speaker 1: You have seeds of greatness on the inside. You are

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Speaker 1: destined to leave your mark on this generation. You have

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Speaker 1: to enlarge your vision. What God has planned for you

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Speaker 1: is not little to get by, to endure, to take

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Speaker 1: life for you. He's bringing you into a wide land,

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Speaker 1: not going to just make you a better slave.

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Speaker 2: He's going to.

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Speaker 1: Set you totally free, free from addictions, free from sickness,

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Speaker 1: free from depression, free from poverty and lack. No matter

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Speaker 1: what level you're at, no matter where you are are.

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Speaker 2: Received this into your spirit. It's too small.

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Speaker 1: more connections, more resources. He's going to release a favor

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Speaker 1: Feel something igniting on the inside, that stirring in your spirit,

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Speaker 2: That's your spirit bearing witness with the greatness God's placed

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Speaker 2: in you. Isaiah forty nine.

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Speaker 1: God was telling Isaiah about his future and all he

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Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll help bring all of the Israel

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Speaker 1: to just help the Jews. I want you to help

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Speaker 1: our vision is limited. God, if I can just go

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Speaker 1: as far as my parents, God, if you just help

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Speaker 1: me get out of this old neighborhood, help me to

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Speaker 1: make it to sales manager.

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Speaker 2: God is saying to you what he said to Isaiah.

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Speaker 2: What you have in mind is too small.

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Speaker 1: Your plans, your goals, that's a part of it. But

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Speaker 1: what God has planned for you, if he showed you

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Speaker 1: right now, it would boggle you your mind. The doors

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Speaker 1: he's going to open, the places he's going to take you,

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Speaker 1: the people you're going to impact, is going to.

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Speaker 2: Be much greater than you imagine.

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Speaker 1: It's too small a thing for you to just accomplish

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Speaker 1: your own dreams.

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Speaker 2: There are God size dreams you haven't even thought about.

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Speaker 1: It's too small a thing for you to just go

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Speaker 1: That's God's dream for you, to bring you into overflow,

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Speaker 1: to where you have more than enough.

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Speaker 2: Here's the key. Ruth was content picking up the leftover.

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Speaker 2: She didn't come.

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Speaker 1: She was faithful where she was, but she didn't settle

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Speaker 1: where she was.

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Speaker 2: Deep down, she knew.

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Speaker 1: God had something bigger. That's sustained she and Naomi for

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Speaker 1: a season. But God doesn't want you to live off

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Speaker 1: the leftovers. He didn't create you to constantly struggle. He

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Speaker 1: created you to live an abundant life.

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Speaker 2: You have royalty in your veins.

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Speaker 1: You may be there for a season, but don't let

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Speaker 1: it become permanent in your thinking. That's too small for you.

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Speaker 1: You have greatness on the inside. You have the favor

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Speaker 1: of God. The forces that are for you are greater

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Speaker 1: than the forces that are against you. Now, do like Ruth,

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Speaker 1: do like doctor Price, Keep helping others, keep being your best.

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Speaker 1: You're not only going to come into your hands fuls

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Speaker 1: on purpose, but you're going to see these explosive blessings

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Speaker 1: where you go from working at a company to owning

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Speaker 1: your company, from teaching at the school to run in

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Speaker 1: the school, from supporting one child to helping millions of children.

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Speaker 1: Have a big vision. Make room for God to do

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Speaker 1: something new. One thing I've learned is you cannot outdream God.

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Speaker 1: God thinks big, he thinks overflow, he thinks more than enough.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you're dreaming about, you need to get ready. God's

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Speaker 1: going to supersize it. Deuteronomy one to eleven is my

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Speaker 1: prayer for you. May the Lord, God of your fathers

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Speaker 1: make you a thousand times more than you are.

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Speaker 2: Can you receive it?

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Speaker 1: A thousand times more creativity, a thousand times more influence,

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Speaker 1: a thousand times more resources.

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Speaker 2: We think, God, if you'll just.

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Speaker 1: Give me that dollar twenty an hour raise, I'll be happy. God,

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Speaker 1: if you just keep my children out of jail, that's

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Speaker 1: too small.

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Speaker 2: God wants your children to be mighty in the land.

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Speaker 2: He wants you to set a new standard for your family.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned that my dad started Lakewood with ninety people

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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty nine. If you added up everyone that

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Speaker 1: came through the year to Lakewood. Now it'd be over

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Speaker 1: ninety thousand. That's a thousand times more. Back then I

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Speaker 1: couldn't comprehend it, But now I've learned to take the

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Speaker 1: limits off of God. You may not see away, but

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Speaker 1: God has a way. The scripture talks about how God

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Speaker 1: will give you houses that you didn't have to build.

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Speaker 1: You'll reap from vineyards that you didn't plant. God knows

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Speaker 1: how to line up your handfuls on purpose. Now, don't

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Speaker 1: go around praying to become a better slave. God wants

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Speaker 1: to bring you totally out. He's not thinking addition, he's

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Speaker 1: thinking multiplication. And if you'll keep honoring God, I believe

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Speaker 1: and declare, you're going to come in to explosive blessings.

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Speaker 2: God is bringing you into.

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Speaker 1: A wide land, a place of abundance, a thousand times

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Speaker 1: more than you are in Jesus's name, if you were

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Speaker 1: see it, can you say him in today? We never

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Speaker 1: like to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity

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

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you,

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Speaker 2: my Lord and Savior.

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Speaker 1: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 1: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church.

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Speaker 1: Keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: He'll take your places that you've never dreamed of. This

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Speaker 2: is my Bible.

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

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Speaker 1: it says I have, I can do. This is the

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Speaker 1: first Bible that my parents gave me I was six

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Speaker 1: years old. They taught me the importance of believing what

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Speaker 1: God says about you and letting that determine your self image.

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Speaker 1: How through the Scripture you can learn to handle challenges

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Speaker 1: and pursue your dreams.

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Speaker 2: Some people tell me.

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Speaker 1: That the Bible's not practical for them. How they don't understand.

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Speaker 1: We've created a new resource called how to Read Your

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Speaker 1: Bible and Enjoy It. It provides twelve distinct lenses that

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Speaker 1: will help you see the Bible with fresh eyes, so

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Speaker 1: you can discover the hidden treasures that increase your faith,

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Speaker 1: practical truths that will help you.

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Speaker 2: In your everyday life.

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Speaker 1: When you tap into the power of God's word, there's

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Speaker 1: no limit to where He'll take you.

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: of any size to the ministry. This month, Joel would

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Speaker 3: like to send you this inspiring new resource. Sometimes reading

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Speaker 3: the Bible can feel confusing, out of touch, or even

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Speaker 3: produce more fear than faith. But now with this new

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Speaker 3: The twelve lenses give you the power to see the

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Speaker 1: When you get God's Word down in you, it brings

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Speaker 1: the ministry. Victoria and I pray for you and your

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Speaker 1: family every day and we appreciate your prayers and support.

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Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online every Sunday morning,

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