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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading

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Speaker 1: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this message. I want to encourage

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Speaker 1: you today that God has great purpose for your life.

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Speaker 1: You a whole meaning, you hold potential, you hold everything

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Speaker 1: you need to make this earth a better place. And

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Speaker 1: I want to charge us today to just reevaluate our

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Speaker 1: life and realize we are here for God's purpose and

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Speaker 1: God's glory. You know, sometimes it's easy to feel like

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Speaker 1: we're here to just go to our job, go to school,

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Speaker 1: have our friends, raise our family. But can I tell

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Speaker 1: you today God has marked you to have an influence

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Speaker 1: on this earth. See you, you just being here and

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Speaker 1: the best you can be, using your gifts, using your

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Speaker 1: talents and honoring God.

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Speaker 2: You're making an eternal difference.

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Speaker 1: You are causing this earth to be enriched, and you

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Speaker 1: are moving the Kingdom of God forward. You see, sometimes

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Speaker 1: we don't appreciate what God has given us. We don't

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Speaker 1: understand this gift and the purpose that we're here for.

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Speaker 1: And I believe when we shake ourselves and we say listen, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm not here by accident.

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Speaker 2: I'm not here because my parents wanted a baby. I'm

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Speaker 2: not here just.

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Speaker 1: To take up spaith and time on this earth, but

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Speaker 1: I'm here for an eternal reason.

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Speaker 2: My being here has meaning and my life matters. You see,

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Speaker 2: when God looks at you, he looks at you like

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Speaker 2: you matter.

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Speaker 1: And he wants you to take what he's given you,

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Speaker 1: and he wants you to mix it with faith, and

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Speaker 1: he wants you to move.

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Speaker 2: Forward on this earth. You see a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of times we can't see what God has given us.

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Speaker 2: Let's just be really real.

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we can't see the gifts and talents.

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Speaker 1: We can look at other people and we can see

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Speaker 1: how they excel. We can see how they've got such

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Speaker 1: a great personality. Oh, it seems so easy for them.

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Speaker 1: They can just do this. They're so creative. Oh they're

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Speaker 1: so smart. How can they figure all that out? We

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Speaker 1: can see it in others, but we can't always see

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Speaker 1: it in ourselves. And see when we can't see it

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Speaker 1: in ourselves doesn't mean it's not there. See, God sees

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Speaker 1: it in us because God put it there. The Bible says,

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Speaker 1: when Jesus went to Earth, he led the captives free,

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Speaker 1: and he gave gifts to men. Do you know He's

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Speaker 1: given you gifts. We don't all have the same gifts.

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Speaker 2: We've got to be comfortable with our gifts. We got

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Speaker 2: to be able to recognize our gifts.

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Speaker 1: We've got to walk in those gifts and not compare

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Speaker 1: those gifts. We got to know that our gifts are

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Speaker 1: here for a purpose, and we've got to appreciate what

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Speaker 1: God has given us. I think about Moses. He was

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Speaker 1: raised as an Egyptian. He ended up fleeing to the wilderness,

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: God knew exactly who he was talking to. He knew

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Speaker 1: everything about Moses. He created Moses. He saw Moses floating

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Speaker 1: He was afraid and ran to the desert. He knew

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Speaker 1: exactly who Moses was. He knew he was dealing with.

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Speaker 1: He said, Moses, I want you to lead my people

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Speaker 2: See it's so interesting.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine Moses standing there like, really, God,

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Speaker 1: it says an Exodus, for he literally pleaded with God.

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Speaker 1: He said, no, God, not me. You've got the wrong man. God,

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Speaker 1: assignment out. I'm sure he was thinking about his past.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he was thinking about how I've been in

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Speaker 2: I mean, you got the wrong man. But God was.

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Speaker 1: brought you for such a time as this, for this assignment.

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Speaker 2: And you know, God used Moses in a powerful.

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Speaker 1: Way, even though Moses couldn't see what God had placed

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Speaker 1: In Acts seven, twenty two, hundreds of years later, after

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Speaker 2: He was powerful in speech and action. Moses was powerful

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Speaker 1: That was a far cry from what he thought about himself.

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Speaker 1: It was a far cry from what he was telling God.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting what he couldn't see? In himself, God

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Speaker 1: had others see. See, you may not be able to

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Speaker 2: Abilities, But can I tell you if you will use

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Speaker 1: Let God take those and turn them into supernatural abilities.

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Speaker 2: People will see what.

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Speaker 1: You have and you will accomplish great things in your life.

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Speaker 1: But it's up to us to mix our abilities, our

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Speaker 1: every day and put one foot.

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Speaker 2: In front of the other. Because I can tell you

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Speaker 2: when God asked you to do something.

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Speaker 1: Can I just give you a little hint right now

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Speaker 2: Is not gonna be easy. God's gonna call you to

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Speaker 1: Why God, I like easy, I like comfortable.

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Speaker 2: God.

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Speaker 1: I like to do those things that are easy for

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Speaker 1: me to do. God's saying, I want to I want

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Speaker 1: you to take those things that are easy for you

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Speaker 1: to do and those things that are difficult for you

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Speaker 1: because see those.

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Speaker 2: Difficult places, that's where you grow.

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Speaker 1: When God speaks to those difficult places, you know what

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Speaker 1: he's doing.

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Speaker 2: He's not being me. He's speaking to your potential.

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Speaker 1: He's saying, if you stay here you're not gonna become

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Speaker 1: everything you were designed to be.

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna.

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Speaker 1: Call you to the easy places. He's gonna call you

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Speaker 1: to some tough things. But just like Moses, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: look back and you're gonna go. God, you did more

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Speaker 1: than I could ask, think or imagine. God, You've fulfilled

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Speaker 1: my life. You've enriched my life. But see, all along

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Speaker 1: the way, we're gonna have to stir up the gifts

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Speaker 1: of God within us. We're gonna have to use our faith.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to believe in our abilities. The apostle

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Speaker 1: Paul wrote to a young man named Timothy. He wrote

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Speaker 1: extremely discouraged. He was facing some situations and he did

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Speaker 1: what God had called him to do. In fact, his mentor,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I need Paul.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever needed someone? Can you come with me?

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Speaker 1: probably how he felt. Paul where are you. I cannot

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Speaker 2: I'm young, you see. But Paul wanted him to know

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Speaker 1: So Paul said, there's a combination, a winning combination.

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Speaker 1: He said, Timothy, I'm writing you this letter to remind

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Speaker 1: by faith. But since it's Mother's Day, can I back

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Speaker 1: saying to you today. He's saying, he wrote this. He said, Timothy,

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Speaker 1: I see the faith of your grandmother and of your mother,

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Speaker 1: and the faith that they had I am sure lives

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Speaker 1: in you. What a compliment I mean for a mother,

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Speaker 1: that's a very good compliment. If you see that I

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Speaker 1: learned how to live. But then he said this, Paul,

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Speaker 1: I believe this faith lives in you. So it's time

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Speaker 1: great that you have an example, but it's time to

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Speaker 1: give someone's child to say, find your faith. You See,

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Speaker 1: my dream would be that my children would find their

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Speaker 1: an eternal result on this earth. See, they're not here

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Speaker 1: You're gonna go through many different seasons of life.

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Speaker 2: Don't just do.

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Speaker 1: and destiny. Stir up the gifts. You are making waves

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Speaker 1: everywhere you go for God.

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Speaker 1: God needs you. Your life matters. Invite Jesus into every

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Speaker 1: met him before. Simon Peter didn't know Jesus. Jesus came

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Speaker 2: He said, you need to push me out a little ways.

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Speaker 1: boat so he could finish the work. Now, Simon Peter's boat,

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Speaker 1: you know what it represented. It represented his office, it

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Speaker 1: was his vocation, it was his livelihood. He could have

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Speaker 1: it's real interesting. The day that Simon Peter let him

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Speaker 1: When he allowed him in his boat so that Jesus

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Speaker 2: God wants in your boat.

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Speaker 2: You know what. I love my mother. She's here today.

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Speaker 2: Happy Mother's Day.

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Speaker 1: I love Mydodi, she's here today, Happy Mother's Day.

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Speaker 2: I've watched my mother.

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Speaker 1: She's had a business in Houston for the last forty years,

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Speaker 1: And I watch her from that business encourage people, invite

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Speaker 1: it's because he said, I still need your boat. I

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Speaker 2: He'll keep you afloat.

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Speaker 1: What an example to have a mother who loves people,

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Speaker 2: I feel a little like Timothy. I'm blessed that way.

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Speaker 1: But you know what the greatest compliment to my mother

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Speaker 1: that's given me, and launch out in my boat so

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Speaker 1: I can let Jesus get in with me today. You

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Speaker 1: find your faith. Thank her for the example. But let

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Speaker 1: her know, Mom, because of your example, Hey, I'm finding

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Speaker 1: my faith and I almost stir up my gifts and

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Speaker 1: I'm launching out for Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Hey, Amen, He's an awesome God.

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