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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Oh God bless you. It is always a joy to

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Speaker 1: come into your homes.

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Speaker 2: We loved you and we're believing that this year is

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Speaker 2: going to be your best year so far. And we

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Speaker 2: just appreciate you tuning in. If you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: come out and be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 2: These are the finest people in all of Houston right

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Speaker 2: here at Lakewood, and we'd love to have you be

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Speaker 2: a part.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in today.

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Speaker 2: I like to get started each week with something kind

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Speaker 2: of funny, and I heard about this burglar that broke

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Speaker 2: into a home one night and as he was stealing

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Speaker 2: the stereo, he heard a voice saying, Jesus is watching.

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Speaker 1: He froze in his tracks.

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Speaker 2: He shined the flashlight around the room and he noticed

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Speaker 2: over in the corner there.

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Speaker 1: Was a parrot. He said, did you say that?

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Speaker 2: The parent said, yep, I'm just trying to warn you.

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Speaker 2: He looked confuse and said, warn me, what do you mean?

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Speaker 1: Who are you? The parrot said, my name is Moses.

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Speaker 2: He laughed and said, what kind of crazy people would

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Speaker 2: name a parent Moses. The parrot replied the same kind

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Speaker 2: of people that would name a one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: pounds rockweller.

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Speaker 1: Jesus, all right, hold off your bible.

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Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 2: I am what it says.

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Speaker 3: I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about having the God kind

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Speaker 2: of faith.

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Speaker 1: And when we hear the word faith.

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Speaker 2: Many times we think of it in a general sense.

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Speaker 2: If I ask you if you had faith, every one

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Speaker 2: of us would say yes. But there are different types

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Speaker 2: of faith. There's a faith for our everyday life, where

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Speaker 2: we have faith to get to work safely in faith,

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Speaker 2: to provide for our family, faith to be healthy. That's

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Speaker 2: the way we typically think of faith. But Jesus said

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Speaker 2: in Mark eleven. Have the faith of God. Notice that

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Speaker 2: little word of it tells us where it originates from.

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Speaker 2: And I know people that have faith in God, they

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Speaker 2: believe God can do anything.

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Speaker 1: But this is saying we can have.

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Speaker 2: The faith of God. In other words, God wants to

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Speaker 2: take some of his faith and deposit it on the

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Speaker 2: inside of you. It's a faith that doesn't originate with ourselves.

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Speaker 2: One translation calls it the God kind of faith.

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Speaker 1: What type of faith is this.

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Speaker 2: It's a faith that stretches, a faith that makes us

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Speaker 2: believe we can accomplish things that we once thought were impossible.

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Speaker 2: It's a faith that challenges us to go beyond the

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Speaker 2: barriers of our past and to do things that we've

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Speaker 2: never done before. You'll know it's the faith of God

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Speaker 2: when something rises up in you and you don't really

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Speaker 2: know why. You're believing it's totally over your head. It

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Speaker 2: seems like it's out of your reach, but deep down,

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Speaker 2: something keeps telling you, no, it's going to happen. God's

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Speaker 2: going to bring this to pass. That's the God kind

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Speaker 2: of faith. A faith that tells you you're going to

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Speaker 2: get well even though medical science says it's impossible. Where

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Speaker 2: did you get that didn't originate with you. God deposited that.

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Speaker 1: On the inside.

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Speaker 2: The God kind of faith will tell you you're going to

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Speaker 2: accomplish your dreams even though you may not think you

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Speaker 2: have the connections, the resources, or the education. It's a

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Speaker 2: faith that says, even though no one in my family

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Speaker 2: will serve the Lord. The God kind of faith gives

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Speaker 2: you a spark of hope, a reason to believe you

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Speaker 2: can accomplish every dream and overcome every obstacle. When you

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Speaker 2: have this faith of God, it's as if you're allowing God.

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Speaker 1: To believe through you.

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Speaker 2: He takes some of his faith and puts it on

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Speaker 2: the inside, and because you get in agreement with it.

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Speaker 1: That allows God to bring it to pass. But here's

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Speaker 1: the whole key.

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Speaker 2: You have to let it take root. It comes up

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Speaker 2: out of your heart. That's God speaking to you. That's

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Speaker 2: his faith. It didn't originate with you. He's trying to

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Speaker 2: plant it on the inside. But if you're not careful,

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Speaker 2: your mind will try to talk you out of it.

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Speaker 2: right connections, and you're too old or too young, or

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Speaker 2: here's a common one, you've made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 1: God's mad at you.

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Speaker 2: Man, You're never going to see your dreams come to pass. No,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to have the God kind of faith,

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Speaker 2: you've got to come to a point where you so

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Speaker 2: to speak, turn your mind off.

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Speaker 1: You've got to quit listening to all the negative discouraging.

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Speaker 2: Can't do it, thoughts. If you're constantly dwelling on all

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Speaker 2: the reasons why it's not going to happen, and how

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Speaker 2: you don't have enough and how you'll never get out

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Speaker 2: of debt, that seed is not going to take root.

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Speaker 1: And sure you'll still have faith.

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Speaker 2: But when you have the faith of God, you're allowing

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Speaker 2: him to believe through you. And it may not make

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Speaker 2: sense to your mind, but you've got to just shake

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Speaker 2: it off and say, God, I am bold enough.

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Speaker 1: To believe you can do anything.

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Speaker 2: And even though this looks impossible, I know this faith

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Speaker 2: didn't come from me. It came from you, and you

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Speaker 2: created the whole universe. And so if you say it

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Speaker 2: can happen, I'm going to get in agreement with you

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Speaker 1: That it will happen.

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Speaker 2: When you learn to have the God kind of faith,

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Speaker 2: you'll find yourself at times believing for things that you

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Speaker 2: know it's not your faith, and you'll think, I don't

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Speaker 2: even know why I think this is going to happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm being so bold.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where I'm getting this confidence. But somehow,

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Speaker 1: Is going to happen. That's the God kind to faith.

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Speaker 2: I can look back in my own life and see

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Speaker 2: times where I know my faith didn't come from me.

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Speaker 2: It didn't originate from my own thinking. Something down in

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Speaker 2: here said Joel, you can accomplish this dream. You have

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Speaker 2: what it takes. I've learned to let that take root.

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Speaker 2: That's God trying to believe through us. In other words,

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Speaker 2: the God that lives in you right now, the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit on the inside is trying to connect with your spirit.

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Speaker 2: And if you'll allow him and not talk yourself out

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Speaker 1: Can believe through you.

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Speaker 2: This is what happened when my father went to be

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Speaker 2: up and pastor the church. I had only spoken one time.

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Speaker 2: If you've only spoken once. You need sermons, you need training,

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Speaker 2: you need material in the natural. It didn't make sense.

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Speaker 2: I'd never been to seminary. I didn't feel qualified. But

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Speaker 2: deep down in here something can saying, Joel, this is

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Speaker 2: your time, this is your destiny.

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Speaker 1: You've got what it takes. I let that seed take root.

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Speaker 2: There wasn't so much that I was confident, but I

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Speaker 1: It was his faith.

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Speaker 2: I let it flow by simply coming into agreement with him. Again,

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Speaker 2: the thing that stops the God kind of faith is

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Speaker 2: telling me the whole time, Joel, you better not get

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Speaker 2: up there and try to minister. You're not gonna know

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Speaker 2: what to say. You're gonna look like a fool. You're

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Speaker 2: not been trained, you're not qualified.

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Speaker 1: On and on.

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Speaker 2: I had to turn my mind off and listen to

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Speaker 2: my heart. That's where God speaks to you. Up here,

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Speaker 2: all I heard was it's a big mistake.

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Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen. But down in here, when I got.

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Speaker 2: Quiet, I could hear the faith of God saying, you

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Speaker 2: can do all things through Christ. You are strong in

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Speaker 2: the Lord, you are annointed, equipped and empowered. When the

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Speaker 2: God kind of faith rises up, there will always there

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Speaker 2: be two voices competing for your attention. It will never

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Speaker 1: That'll rise up.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, if you'll get quiet and

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Speaker 2: listen to your spirit person, you'll hear a voice of hope,

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Speaker 2: a voice of victory.

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Speaker 1: Saying, now you are well able.

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Speaker 2: Those that are for you are greater than those that

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Speaker 2: to always choose.

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Speaker 1: That voice of hope.

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Speaker 2: About eight months ago, all of a sudden, I had

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Speaker 2: this strong desire to make a large donation to the ministry.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where it came from. I was just

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Speaker 2: once this desire dropped in my heart to give this

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Speaker 2: large gift. And at first, like we do many times,

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Speaker 2: kind of shaken that off, thought, well, I'm just feeling

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Speaker 2: the same time, he was trying to put some of

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Speaker 2: never give you a dream without giving you the faith

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Speaker 1: He'll never give you a desire.

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Speaker 2: He won't put a promise in your heart without taking

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Speaker 2: And I felt this desire so strongly, and I simply said, God,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to get in agreement with you and believe that.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to give this gift. And

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Speaker 2: stretch for our family.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have it in the natural.

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Speaker 2: but I let the seed take root.

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Speaker 1: That's the main thing.

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Speaker 2: God doesn't ask us to figure it all out. He

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Speaker 2: simply asked us to believe. Month after month went by.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see anything happening, but I just kept thinking

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Speaker 1: Away the good news.

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Speaker 2: When you realize it's the faith of God, it takes

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Speaker 2: stronger now than she was twenty years ago when it

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Speaker 2: first happened.

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Speaker 1: But too many times we settle for second best.

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Speaker 2: The god kind of faith is trying to stretch us

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Speaker 2: and dare us to believe. But we think of all

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Speaker 2: the reasons why it's not going to happen. How the

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Speaker 2: experts have said it's impossible.

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Speaker 1: We think we have to see away.

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Speaker 2: But all we have to do is believe if we'll

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Speaker 2: let the God kind of faith rise up. There's no

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Speaker 2: situation God can't turn around. There's no sickness too big,

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Speaker 2: no problem too great, no enemy too powerful.

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Speaker 1: Our God is all powerful. He has you in the

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Speaker 1: palm of his hand.

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Speaker 2: And he's saying, if you'll allow me, I'll use my

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Speaker 2: faith to believe through you. All you've got to do

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Speaker 2: is get an agreement with what you're feeling down in here.

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Speaker 2: That's the God kind of faith rising up in your spirit.

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Speaker 1: I know every one of you like me. You can

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Speaker 1: look back in your life and.

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Speaker 2: See times where you think, where did I get this faith?

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Speaker 2: How did I have the nerve to believe I could

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Speaker 2: be well when the medical report said it was impossible.

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Speaker 1: How did I have.

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Speaker 2: The boldness to take that position where really I kind

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Speaker 2: of felt like I wasn't qualified, Or how did I

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Speaker 2: ever think I would be happy again and have a

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Speaker 2: bright future after I had been so hurt in that

471
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Speaker 2: relationship it's because you let the god kind of faith

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Speaker 2: take root. You got in agreement with the God that

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Speaker 2: lives on the inside of you, and that's the same

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Speaker 2: God that controls the universe. When you believe, he can

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Speaker 2: do incredible things. I remember when Victoria and I first

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Speaker 2: got married. We were out walking through this nice neighborhood

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Speaker 2: and it had these beautiful two story homes. At that time,

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Speaker 2: we were living in a small town home, just as

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Speaker 2: happy as can be. But as we were walking, Victoria

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Speaker 2: pointed at this one house.

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Speaker 1: It was just finished being built.

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Speaker 2: It had a beautiful two story windows and had high ceilings.

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Speaker 2: It was so nice. She said, Joel, one day we're

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Speaker 2: going to live in a house just like that. I

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Speaker 2: couldn't even fathom what she was saying. I said, Victoria,

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Speaker 2: are you kidding? Do you know how much these houses cost.

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Speaker 2: We will never be able to afford anything like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, in my mind, I calculated we could work

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Speaker 2: till we were one hundred and twenty years old and

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Speaker 2: still not have enough. And me, being the great man

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Speaker 2: of faith that I am, I did.

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Speaker 1: My best to talk her out of it.

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Speaker 2: I said, Victoria, we don't make enough money. On and

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Speaker 2: on all the reasons why it wasn't going to happen.

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Speaker 2: It was like I was talking to a brick wall.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't FaZe her. She said, no, Joel, write down

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Speaker 2: in here. I know one day we're going to live

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Speaker 2: in a house just like that.

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Speaker 1: What was that? That was not normal?

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Speaker 2: That was the god kind of faith being deposited into

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Speaker 2: her spirit, and she was bold enough to come into

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Speaker 2: agreement with it. Sure Enough, several years later, through God's

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Speaker 2: supernatural favor, were living in the house just like that.

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Speaker 1: I remember when my.

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Speaker 2: Brother in law, Kevin, he's our administrator, he told me

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Speaker 2: that to renovate this new facility, the former Compact Center,

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Speaker 2: it was going to cost seventy five million dollars. I

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Speaker 2: didn't bat an eye. That didn't bother me. I said,

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Speaker 2: no problem, that's to do it. Looking back now, I

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Speaker 2: think to myself, was I crazy?

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Speaker 1: What was I thinking?

512
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Speaker 2: I had never raised one penny before, I'd only been.

513
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Speaker 1: The pastor for four years.

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Speaker 2: The last building my father built cost six million dollars,

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Speaker 2: and here I didn't think twice about taking on something

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Speaker 2: ten times out amount. I can tell you that wasn't

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Speaker 2: my faith. It didn't originate with me. That was the

518
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Speaker 2: God kind of faith. I simply allowed it to take root.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm asking you to do today. Throughout life,

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Speaker 2: God is going to try to stretch you the natural.

521
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Speaker 2: It may not make sense, but if you can just

522
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Speaker 2: get past what your mind is telling you and let

523
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Speaker 2: it take root on the inside, you'll see God do

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Speaker 2: amazing things. Some of you right now, God's trying to

525
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Speaker 2: plant a new seed in your heart, just like he

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Speaker 2: gave me faith for the renovation, just like He gave

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Speaker 2: Victoria faith for that new house. This is one of

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Speaker 2: those moments for you. On the inside, something is saying

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Speaker 2: I can rise higher, I can accomplish every dream. I

530
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Speaker 2: can overcome this addiction. I can be well again. That's

531
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Speaker 2: the God kind of faith rising up on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Let it take root.

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Speaker 2: Just say, God, I receive what you're saying to me.

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Speaker 2: I know some of you, the doctors have said there's

535
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Speaker 2: nothing more they can do. But God is saying, I'm

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Speaker 2: not limited by the laws of medical science.

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Speaker 1: I can do what men can't do.

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Speaker 2: Some of you have given up on your dream it's

539
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Speaker 2: been so long, but God is saying, I still have

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Speaker 2: a way to bring it to past.

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Speaker 1: Dare to believe Some of you think that you've been

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Speaker 1: through too much to ever be happy, But.

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Speaker 2: God is saying I can give you a new beginning.

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Speaker 1: Future can be brighter than your past. Receive that faith today.

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Speaker 2: Remember God will never give you the desire without giving you.

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Speaker 1: The faith to accomplish it.

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Speaker 2: So if you have the desire on the inside, if

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Speaker 2: something is quickening in your spirit, Man, then you can

549
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Speaker 2: be bold enough to say, I can be free, I

550
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Speaker 2: can be well, I can be restored. I know it's

551
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Speaker 2: not by my mind, it's not by my power, but

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Speaker 2: it's by the spirit of the Living God.

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Speaker 1: Friends, if you'll learn to get in agreement with the

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Speaker 1: creator of the universe and let his.

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Speaker 2: Faith take root, nothing will be impossible to you. God

556
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Speaker 2: will open up supernatural doors. He'll break down barriers.

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Speaker 1: Of the past.

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Speaker 2: And I believe and declare that every dream, every desire,

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Speaker 2: every promise God's put in you, he will bring that

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Speaker 2: to fulfillment.

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Speaker 1: Amen, do you receive it today.

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Pray with me, Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of

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Speaker 2: my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: got born again.

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Speaker 1: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 1: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Fear can be a powerful force and will try to

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Speaker 3: make you feel alone, stuck without hope. But fear doesn't

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Speaker 3: have to get the final say there is a way out.

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Speaker 2: Fear is a powerful force, but so is faith. What

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Speaker 2: we focus on shapes our reality.

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Speaker 1: In my new book, No.

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Speaker 2: More Fear, you have the mind of Christ. I'll show

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Speaker 2: you how to silence fear and live boldly in faith

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Speaker 2: and confidence. Just like David said, though I walk through

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Speaker 2: the valley, I will not fear, you too can walk

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Speaker 2: through life's challenges without being paralyzed by fear. I can't

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Speaker 2: promise you you'll never feel but I can teach you

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Speaker 2: how to rise above it. By dwelling on what God says,

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Speaker 2: learning to replace the anxious thoughts with faith filled ones,

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Speaker 2: you can live from a place of peace, power and purpose.

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Speaker 2: Fear doesn't have the final say God does. Be bold,

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Speaker 2: be strong, and step up to who He made you

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