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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Oh God, bless you. It's great to be

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Speaker 1: with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with

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Speaker 1: us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 1: of our services. I'd like to start with something funny

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Speaker 1: and I heard about this pastor. He was asked to

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Speaker 1: inform one of his members that he had just inherited

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Speaker 1: ten million dollars. They were concerned because of the shock

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Speaker 1: of it, he might have a heart attack. The pastor

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Speaker 1: went to him and said, sir, what would you do

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Speaker 1: if you inherited ten million dollars? The man said, Pastor,

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Speaker 1: the first thing I do is give half of it

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Speaker 1: to the church. At that point, the pastor fell over dead.

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Speaker 1: Say it like you mean it. This 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 what it says

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today. I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In

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Speaker 1: Jesus's name, God bless you. I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you today about over and above blessings. When you have

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Speaker 1: a generous spirit, you're always doing more than what's required.

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Speaker 1: And you stay late to help that coworker that's struggling,

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Speaker 1: and you take that elderly neighbor dinner at night, support

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Speaker 1: that single parent mom, or you give to expand the ministry.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to. Nobody would look down on you

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Speaker 1: if you didn't. But you have this over and above mentality.

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Speaker 1: You're always looking for ways you can do good. You're

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Speaker 1: not just being a blessing to others, but you are

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Speaker 1: positioning yourself for God to do over and above in

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Speaker 1: your life. The scripture says, if you so, you will

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Speaker 1: reap sparingly. But if you so generously, you will reap generously.

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Speaker 1: Some people do as little as they can to get by.

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Speaker 1: They have a little kindness so they won't be seen

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Speaker 1: as unfriendly. They'll give a little time to help others,

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Speaker 1: little encouragement, little friendship. They wonder why they don't get

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Speaker 1: good breaks, why they don't see favor. They're reaping what

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Speaker 1: they're sowing. If you sew average, you're going to see average.

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Speaker 1: If you so ordinary, do only what's required, then you'll

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Speaker 1: see ordinary. But when you have this over and above mentality,

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Speaker 1: looking for ways to be a blessing and doing more

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Speaker 1: than what's expected, you are setting yourself up for God

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Speaker 1: to show out in your life, to open doors you

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Speaker 1: couldn't open, to bring divine connections, to see favor that

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Speaker 1: you've never seen. Don't live at the level of obligation.

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Speaker 1: Don't have that what can I get by with mentality

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Speaker 1: that's going to limit your life. Have a generous spirit.

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Speaker 1: If you'll turn loose of what's in your hands, God

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Speaker 1: will turn loose of what's in his hands. God is

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Speaker 1: a rewarder. He sees you being a blessing, singing in

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Speaker 1: the choir on your day off and investing in that

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Speaker 1: young man that doesn't have a father, taking him to

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Speaker 1: ball practice with your son. He sees you're giving funds

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Speaker 1: that you could use for your dream, making sacrifices to

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Speaker 1: build his kingdom. That's setting you up for over and

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Speaker 1: above blessings. I've learned you can't outgive God. You can't

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Speaker 1: be a blessing to others without God being a blessing

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Speaker 1: to you. The way he does it is he multiplies.

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Speaker 1: It is going to come back, press down, shaking together

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Speaker 1: and running over. There was a man in the scripture

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Speaker 1: named Barnabas. He didn't come from an influential family. He

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Speaker 1: but he had a spirit. He saw the disciples were

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Speaker 1: Ford says he sold a piece of property he owned,

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Speaker 1: He didn't have to, Nobody would have faulted him if

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Speaker 1: he didn't. But he had this over and above mentality.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to be a blessing. That one act of

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Speaker 1: generosity opened the door to all this opportunity. He became

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Speaker 1: a mentor to Paul. Paul wasn't accepted by the disciples

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Speaker 1: at first. They still thought that he was against the church.

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Speaker 1: It was Barnabas that convinced them that Paul was a believer.

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Speaker 1: Barnabas went from ordinary nobody knew him to this influential position.

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Speaker 1: On and on. God used Barnabas in great ways, but

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Speaker 1: it can all be traced back to that over and

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Speaker 1: above mentality, you're generous with your time, your talent, your resources.

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Speaker 1: Not living at the level of obligation, but going above

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Speaker 1: and beyond. That gets God's attention. He'll release over and

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Speaker 1: audiences that you've never dreamed, people, opportunities, resources you didn't

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Speaker 1: see coming. That's the running over blessings, things you can't explain,

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Speaker 1: Positions where you didn't have the qualifications, Connections with people

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Speaker 1: that should be over your head, out of your league,

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Speaker 1: but now they're looking up to you. Now you're the leader,

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Speaker 1: you're giving vision, you're making the impact. Don't miss opportunities

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Speaker 1: to live. Over and above. These are things that are

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Speaker 1: not required. Nobody's going to press you. You to do it.

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Speaker 1: Your mind, your reasoning will tell you no, thanks, Joel.

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Speaker 1: I'm busy. I don't have time to serve. I don't

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Speaker 1: have time to mentor that young person, or I need

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Speaker 1: these funds. I got my own dreams trying to build

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Speaker 1: my own career. Here's the whole key. When you give

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Speaker 1: over and above, you're not going to end up at

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Speaker 1: a deficit. You're not losing anything. You are positioning yourself

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Speaker 1: for increase, for abundance, for doors to open, for divine connections.

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Speaker 1: If Barnabas were here today, he would tell you it

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Speaker 1: all started when I gave that gift, when I went

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Speaker 1: over and to Bob. Now, he didn't give it to

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Speaker 1: get something. He simply gave it to be a blessing.

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Speaker 1: To look how God works. He can entrust you to

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Speaker 1: be a great blessing. Then He will bless you with me.

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Speaker 1: He will open the windows of heaven pour out blessings

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Speaker 1: that you cannot contain. That's what it says in the

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Speaker 1: Book of Malachi that when you tithe your income, you

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Speaker 1: give offerings that God will increase you pour out his blessings.

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Speaker 1: In that same passage, it asked the question will a

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Speaker 1: man rob God by not giving? What's interesting is God

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Speaker 1: owns it all. He makes streets out of God. When

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Speaker 1: Peter needed money for taxes, there was a coin in

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Speaker 1: the fish's mouth. It's not like God needs our funds

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Speaker 1: to keep everything going. God's going to go broke if

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Speaker 1: we don't give. Now what that means will a person

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Speaker 1: rob God is if you don't live generously, you are

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Speaker 1: robbing God of the opportunity to bless you. You're robbing

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Speaker 1: You're taking away that opportunity for him to show out

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Speaker 1: in your life. Don't rob him. He's longing be good

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Speaker 1: give you the kingdom. God works by principles. When you

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Speaker 1: live over and above, that's a seed you're sowing. Then

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Speaker 1: than what's required, Like Barnabas, Nobody forced you to bless

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Speaker 1: that neighbor that's struggling. Nobody made you come early today

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Speaker 1: and serve as a prayer, partner and usher. Nobody required

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Speaker 1: you to give that coworker a ride. You weren't obligated

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Speaker 1: to support the ministry. Nobody would know if you didn't,

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Speaker 1: you could live at the level of obligation. But I

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Speaker 1: know a secret. I'm looking at Barnabas' I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: over and above people, people with a generous spirit. You

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Speaker 1: need to get ready. God's about to release over and

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Speaker 1: above in your life. He's about to put you in

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Speaker 1: front of audiences you didn't see coming, with people of influence,

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Speaker 1: where you shine brightly, where they admire you, and open

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Speaker 1: so generously, you're going to reap generously. Now. I know

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Speaker 1: many of you have been doing this, but you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen those windows open yet. Let me encourage you. God

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Speaker 1: has seen all the sacrifices, the times you gave when

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Speaker 1: you needed the funds, You stayed late to help, when

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Speaker 1: you were tired, You went the extra mile, but nobody

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Speaker 1: said thanks. God is about to thank you. He's about

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Speaker 1: to show out in your life. You're going to see

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Speaker 1: increase abundance resources, contracts that you cannot contain, that means

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Speaker 1: so many good opportunities that you have to choose what's best.

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Speaker 1: That means lending and not borrowing. Being able to be

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Speaker 1: a bigger blessing. That means the right people showing up,

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Speaker 1: not having to track them down, hope they give you

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Speaker 1: goes back number one to honoring God keeping in first place,

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Speaker 1: and number two, having an over and above mentality, a

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Speaker 1: generous spirit, not ingrown focused only on me. Get outside

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Speaker 1: of yourself, don't rob God of the opportunity to bless you.

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Speaker 1: Look for ways you can be an over and above blessing.

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Speaker 1: I was at the furniture store a while back and

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Speaker 1: Don't say anything about who it was. I'm not doing

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Speaker 1: it to get credit. I'm doing it unto God. He's

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Speaker 1: the one that matters. He's keeping all the records. Well, Joe,

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Speaker 1: I don't have those kinds of funds to buy a

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Speaker 1: stranger furniture. Maybe not. When you buy your coworker a

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Speaker 1: you didn't have to. That's an over and above blessing.

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Speaker 1: bring them to church? Can you mentor that young man

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Speaker 1: for God to do over and above in your life.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says in Galatians, don't miss an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: When you missed that opportunity, you were robbing God of

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to bless you. When you make someone else's day,

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Speaker 1: God will always make your own day. When we acquired

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Speaker 1: the Compact Center this place, we learned that it was

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Speaker 1: going to cost one hundred million dollars to renovate. We

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Speaker 1: borrowed seventy five in a year before we could move in.

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Speaker 1: We had a twenty five million dollar payment due. I

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Speaker 1: two years. I never had to raise those kinds of

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Speaker 1: this pressure, this uncertainty, thought saying, Joe, you're never gonna

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Speaker 1: make that payment. You're way over your head. Now. I

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Speaker 1: knew it wasn't over God's head. And that year we

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Speaker 1: did everything we could. We presented the vision, and we

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Speaker 1: had meetings inviting people to support. So many God on

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Speaker 1: board and were very generous, many of you. But despite

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Speaker 1: all of our efforts, we were three months from moving

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Speaker 1: I received a phone call from a pastor friend of

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Speaker 1: mine in another state. He was trying to purchase a

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Speaker 1: building for his church. He had been working on it

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Speaker 1: a couple years, raising the funds, doing everything he could.

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