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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan 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 enjoyed a message.

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Speaker 2: Oh men, Louia, we blessed you in this place, and

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Speaker 2: we thank you for the power that you've given us.

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Speaker 2: You know, I pray for people all the time and

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Speaker 2: they want to know the will of God for their life.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're really looking to find their assignments from God.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's a good prayer to pray because

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Speaker 2: that means God is drawing you and he's working with you,

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Speaker 2: and he wants you to follow him. You know, we

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Speaker 2: all want to know the will of God for our life. God,

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Speaker 2: what's my assignment? But can I tell you this, God

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Speaker 2: is already laid out your assignment for you. He's laid

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Speaker 2: it out, He's pre arranged your assignments.

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Speaker 3: God is already working in you.

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Speaker 2: We can't wait around for our assignment to find us.

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Speaker 2: We have to move out in our assignments that are

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Speaker 2: laid out for us today. See, God has plans and

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Speaker 2: purposes for each one of our life. In fact, he

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Speaker 2: is working those plans and purposes out in us. Listen

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Speaker 2: to what Ephesians two says. It says that we are

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Speaker 2: God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works. See,

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Speaker 2: we are God's handiwork. He is making us. He is

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Speaker 2: molding us where we're created to do good works. It

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Speaker 2: goes on to say, which we're already prepared in advance

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Speaker 2: for us to do. You see, God is working through

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Speaker 2: us in our good works. You see, sometimes I think

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Speaker 2: that we think good works is kind of like good deeds.

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Speaker 2: We think, well, when I held the door open for

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Speaker 2: this stranger, that was nice? Are we thinking you know what?

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Speaker 2: My husband has been driving me crazy lately, but I

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Speaker 2: haven't yelled at him even though he deserves it. You know,

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Speaker 2: those are nice things. And I think sometimes which are

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Speaker 2: good deeds? And they are good works in a sense

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Speaker 2: because something is working in you when you do that.

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Speaker 2: But I don't want us to think that these good

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Speaker 2: works are something that God's gonna love me more. God,

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Speaker 2: do you see what I've been doing for you? Have

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Speaker 2: you ever felt fallen in that train of thought? I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'll raise my hand, Okay, I'll be the first one

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Speaker 2: their hands. But you know what, sometimes you think, God,

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Speaker 2: I am doing all this good stuff, where's my blessing?

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Speaker 2: You know what, Lord, they're not as nice as me,

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Speaker 2: but you're blessing them, you see. I don't want us

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Speaker 2: to not look at these good works as our Christian duty.

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Speaker 2: Because we're Christians. We have to do these good works. Now, first,

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Speaker 2: let me say this. God is a blessing God. He

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Speaker 2: blesses obedience. He's a rewarder of those who seek after him.

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Speaker 2: I'm not really talking about the blessing. I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: the good works. And I don't want us to fall

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Speaker 2: into the trap of if we do good works, God's

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Speaker 2: gonna bless us. I think he will reward us, But

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Speaker 2: don't do good works to get the blessing.

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Speaker 3: You see, you can't even get saved by good works.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says that we are saved by grace through faith.

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Speaker 3: It is not of ourself. It is a free gift.

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Speaker 3: It's free.

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Speaker 2: You can't be good enough to get saved. You can't

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Speaker 2: be rich enough to purchase your salvation.

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Speaker 3: It's free.

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Speaker 2: But I think sometimes we fall into this trap that

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do good works.

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Speaker 3: God, so that you will bless me. You see, God

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Speaker 3: created us to do good works.

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Speaker 2: So if God created us to do good works, we

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Speaker 3: We know that we.

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Speaker 2: Will walk in our assignment when we do the good works.

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Speaker 2: What is a good work? A good work is when

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Speaker 2: you're patient, that's a good work. A good work is

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Speaker 2: when you choose joy, when you choose peace, when you

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Speaker 2: choose long suffering, when you're a mother serving your children,

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Speaker 2: when you're a husband going out every day to work.

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Speaker 2: Those are good works because within those good works, God

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Speaker 2: is working something in you. Those good works, God is

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Speaker 2: working in you. When you come up against that challenge,

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Speaker 2: a person that's trying to put you down, Guess what,

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Speaker 2: there's a good work to be done right there, and

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Speaker 3: We think, God, why why? You know why?

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Speaker 2: Because God is saying, I've already put the DNA e

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Speaker 2: you. You are predisposed to be able to push through and

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Speaker 2: let the good.

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Speaker 3: Work work in you.

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Speaker 2: The good work is working in you.

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Speaker 3: See, you're made to do good works, and those good works.

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Speaker 2: They're making you, They're building your character, your morality value. See,

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Speaker 2: there is nothing better than to come up against a

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Speaker 2: chose the right thing. You allowed that pre arranged, pre

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Speaker 2: determine good work to work in you. You see, I

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Speaker 2: think the greatest gift in the world that God could

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Speaker 2: ever give us is a strong and fortified life living

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Speaker 2: for Him wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 3: Do you know those good works that are working in

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Speaker 3: you will make you more obedient.

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Speaker 2: That obedience will then trigger the blessing of God. So

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Speaker 2: I just want to to look a little differently today

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Speaker 2: at good works when you're pressed, when you're up against

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Speaker 2: a challenge. Listen, the Bible says it like this, that

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Speaker 2: He will set a table before the presence of your enemy,

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Speaker 2: before any situation. God is already pre arranged the good

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Speaker 2: choice for you. He's already made a way of escape.

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Speaker 2: You know, we need to know that God intended these

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Speaker 2: good works to work in us so that we could

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Speaker 2: fulfill our destiny, that we could walk in these assignments

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Speaker 2: every single day.

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: It's not one thing that's gonna make your calling. It's

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Speaker 2: an every day walking out these good works that's gonna

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Speaker 2: lead you, guide you to open doors, to places of influence,

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Speaker 2: to supernatural opportunities. Because let me tell you something, God's

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Speaker 2: not gonna give you anything you're gonna fail at. He's

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Speaker 2: not gonna open a door that you're not ready for.

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Speaker 2: So let these good works work in you. No, hey,

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Speaker 2: I'm challenged. This thing is happening over here. I have

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Speaker 2: a choice. I can choose to do the good work.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a good work for a reason. Is

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Speaker 2: that a bad work? God doesn't want it to be

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Speaker 2: a hard work. He wants it to be a good work.

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Speaker 2: Think about that just a minute.

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Speaker 3: What is good?

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Speaker 2: It's pleasing, it's honorable in God's sight, it's pleasant. It's

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Speaker 2: a good work when you work it with God. It's

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Speaker 2: something he's doing in.

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Speaker 3: You to set you up.

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Speaker 2: For greater things. Set you up for greater things. So

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Speaker 2: let's put down the struggle. Let's put down the fact

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Speaker 2: that somebody's trying to get to us, or are trying

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Speaker 2: We don't have to do it like the world does it.

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Speaker 2: We have a buffet laid out for us. It's interesting

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Speaker 2: because in Romans twelve two It says this. It says,

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Speaker 2: don't let evil defeat you, but defeat evil.

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Speaker 3: With what good, with what with good, with pleasant, pleasing,

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Speaker 2: In the sight of God, you can overcome when you're

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Speaker 2: willing to do the good work, the good work. You know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes we think our life is so simple. We think,

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Speaker 2: you know, where is that big thing? But can I

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Speaker 2: encourage you that your simple things, your simple good works,

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Speaker 2: are so making you and accomplishing you that you're gonna

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Speaker 2: look up and you're gonna think, God, how did I

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Speaker 2: get where I am?

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Speaker 4: God?

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Speaker 3: How did you set me up for such an amazing thing?

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Speaker 1: God?

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Speaker 2: Look at this family that I produced Because I've been patient,

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Speaker 2: I've been a servant, I've long suffered, I've warked through

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Speaker 2: the good things.

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Speaker 3: So I've produced something good in my life.

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Speaker 2: You see anything good, it's going to take our time

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Speaker 2: and attention. I think about the first telephone. When Alexander

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Speaker 2: Graham Bell invented that telephone. It was such an amazing thing.

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Speaker 2: You could literally talk to someone that wasn't in the room.

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Speaker 2: You could talk to another person at another number on

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Speaker 2: the other end of another telephone. That's pretty crazy, isn't

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Speaker 2: it not? These days, why he thought it was amazing.

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Speaker 2: He didn't know where it was going to go. But

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Speaker 2: today we're not stuck to the wall. We have our

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Speaker 2: telephone in our pockets. We can take pictures with our phone.

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Speaker 2: on the internet and learn anything we want.

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Speaker 3: With our phone.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if Alexander Graham Bell realized what his

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Speaker 3: It would be unbelievable to him.

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Speaker 2: But it was a simple invention that accomplished great things.

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Speaker 3: And in the same way.

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Speaker 2: Your simple works, good works are going to accomplish unbelievable

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Speaker 3: You can't see it now, you think it's simple. God,

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Speaker 3: where is it leading me? Where is it taking me?

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Speaker 3: For guy says, I want to make you unbelievable. I

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Speaker 2: Be further than you could ever think possible. So next

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Speaker 2: time you're saying, God, what do you want me to do?

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Speaker 3: What's my calling? What's my assignment? Remember this. You were

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Speaker 3: walking into it.

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Speaker 2: You were walking into it because those good works that

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Speaker 2: you were made to do are making you and God

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Speaker 2: will fulfill everything that he's ever promised you.

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Speaker 3: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome.

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

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