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Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer. Know that we're praying

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Speaker 1: for you, and we know God has awesome things in store.

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Speaker 1: So great having you with us. Enjoy the message today.

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's great to be with you today,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you stay connected with us during the

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Speaker 1: week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media,

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Speaker 1: and you can come visit us in person. We'd love

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Speaker 1: to have you be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to talk with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this little girl. She asked her mother how the

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Speaker 1: human race got started. She explained how God created Adam

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Speaker 1: we are today. A few weeks later, she asked her

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Speaker 1: father the same question. He explained, how many years ago

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Speaker 1: there were monkeys, and little by little they became more

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Speaker 1: like people, and here we are. Confused. She went back

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Speaker 1: to your mother and said, Mom, you said God created people.

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Speaker 1: Dad said, we came from monkeys. How can that be?

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Speaker 1: The mother said, oh, honey, that's easy. I told you

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Speaker 1: about my side of the family day have told you

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Speaker 1: about his. All right, y'all say it like you mean it.

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

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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 the power to obey.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes God asks us to do things that are hard,

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Speaker 1: management position. But we're not qualified to quit hanging around

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Speaker 1: a friend that's pulling us down. Deep down, we know

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Speaker 1: we're supposed to. We feel that nudging, but we don't

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Speaker 1: think we can. We don't have the discipline. It's easy

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Speaker 1: Philippians too, God is working in you, giving you the

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Speaker 1: not only gives you the desire, the nudging, the challenge,

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Speaker 1: but he gives you the power to obey. Now, quit

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Speaker 1: telling yourself. I can't do this, Joy, I can't start

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Speaker 1: eating six bowls of ice cream each night. The reason

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Speaker 1: you're not able is you're telling yourself the wrong thing.

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Speaker 1: You're defeating yourself with your own thoughts. You have to

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Speaker 1: have a new mindset. This may be difficult, but I

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Speaker 1: I have the power to forgive. This dream seems over

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Speaker 1: my head, but I have the power to accomplish him.

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Speaker 1: My family all deals with these bad habits, but I

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Speaker 1: have the power to overcome. Don't talk yourself out of it.

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Speaker 1: Get an agreement with God and talk yourself into it.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever been to the store and bought a

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Speaker 1: are always included. God always gives you the power to obey.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the key. You activate the power by acting

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Speaker 1: there's a blessing that follows. God is not asking you

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Speaker 1: That's not you just thinking up things. That's God putting

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Speaker 1: it's one thing to know the right thing to do.

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Speaker 1: We feel God speaking to us, calling us to come

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Speaker 1: can you're not qualified, you don't have the discipline, Your

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Speaker 1: those excuses. This is a new day. There is power

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Speaker 1: in one translation, says, for God, who is working in

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Speaker 1: You have the most powerful force in the universe working

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Speaker 1: Every circumstance said, this doesn't make sense. You must have

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Speaker 1: will be voices that tell you all the reasons you can't. Noah,

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Speaker 1: Noah had to tune all that out. God. I may

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Speaker 1: You can imagine people coming by saying, look at that fool,

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Speaker 1: But when God gives you the instruction, when he challenges

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Speaker 1: a knowing that you've never experienced, a power to break barriers,

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Speaker 1: Has God asked you to do something that doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: about to forgive that person that did you wrong. You've

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