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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the podcast, and we want to

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Speaker 2: tell you how much we love you. Trusted You're going

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Speaker 2: to have a blessed Christmas season with you and your family.

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Speaker 2: Know that we pray for you every day, just speaking.

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Speaker 1: God's blessings and favor.

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Speaker 3: We love you, we are praying for you, and we

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Speaker 3: hope you have a very merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the podcast today. Oh God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's always a joy to come into your homes. You

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Speaker 2: ever in our area, stop buying and see us. I

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Speaker 2: promise you will make you feel right at home. But

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Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in, Thanks again for coming out. And

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Speaker 2: I'd like to start with something funny each week. And

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Speaker 2: I heard about this church service on Sunday morning. Everything

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Speaker 2: was going great until a big bolt of lightning hit.

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Speaker 2: When the smoke cleared, Satan himself was standing behind the podium.

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Speaker 2: People panic ran out as fast as they could, all

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Speaker 2: except one lady. She was sitting on the front road

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Speaker 2: just as calm as could be. Satan was appalled. He said, lady,

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Speaker 2: do you know who I am? She said, sure I do.

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Speaker 2: He said, aren't you afraid of me? She said, nope,

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Speaker 2: not the least bit. He said, why not? She said,

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Speaker 2: why should I be. I've been married to your brother

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Speaker 2: for thirty years. All right, hold up your Bible. Say

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

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Speaker 2: am what it says I am. I have what it

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

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Speaker 2: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 2: having uncommon faith. Uncommon faith is not average faith.

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Speaker 1: It's not ordinary. It's above and beyond.

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Speaker 2: It's where you have a boldness and a confidence to

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Speaker 2: believe for the extraordinary. Average faith says God, help me

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Speaker 2: to survive this recession. Uncommon faith says God, I believe

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Speaker 1: Writing in the midst of this recession.

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Speaker 2: Average faith says maybe one day I'll get out of

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Speaker 2: this problem.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it's pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: Uncommon faith says I know I'm not only coming out,

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Speaker 2: I'm coming out better off than I was before. When

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Speaker 2: you have uncommon faith, you don't just believe to make

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Speaker 2: your monthly house payment. You believe to totally pay your

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Speaker 2: house off. You don't just ask God to help me

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Speaker 2: to control my addiction.

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Speaker 1: No, you ask God to.

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Speaker 2: Totally set you free. Uncommon faith is radical faith. It's

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Speaker 2: extreme where you believe God can do anything. You don't

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Speaker 2: make little plans. You don't say, God, just let me

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Speaker 2: go as far as my parents did. Let me do

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Speaker 2: as much as they did, Then I'll be okay, Then

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Speaker 2: I'll be successful. No. Uncommon faith says God, give me

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Speaker 2: a double portion. Let me do twice as much as

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Speaker 2: those that went before me. Let me give twice as much.

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Speaker 2: that's kind of bold.

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Speaker 1: Who do you think you are?

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Speaker 2: Here's who a child of the Most High God, full

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Speaker 2: of uncommon faith.

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Speaker 1: And some of you today you have average faith. And

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Speaker 1: that's good. You love God.

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Speaker 2: You believe to make it through. But if you want

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Speaker 2: to see God amaze you with his goodness, you need

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Speaker 2: uncommon faith. Take the limits off of God. Believe you

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Speaker 2: can rise higher. Believe you can overcome every obstacle. Our

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Speaker 2: faith is what pleases God. If you want to be

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Speaker 2: more pleasing to God, one way is to simply release

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Speaker 2: your faith in a greater way.

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Speaker 1: I read a story about a little seven year old girl.

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Speaker 2: Her name is Jamie, and she lives on a farm

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Speaker 2: That's uncommon faith. Most of us adults would never pray

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Speaker 2: right between their eyes there was this Jame Remember her

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Speaker 1: What am I saying?

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Speaker 2: When you release your faith in uncommon ways, you're going

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Speaker 2: to see God begin to do uncommon things. The medical

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Speaker 2: report may say it's impossible for you to get well,

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Speaker 2: but there is another report that says, with God, all

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Speaker 2: Even though I don't see a way God, I know

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Speaker 2: you for restoring health back into me. In your finances,

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Speaker 2: it may look like you'll never get out of debt,

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Speaker 2: you'll never see your business take off. But there's another

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Speaker 2: report that says God's favor surrounds you like a shield.

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Speaker 2: It says you are blessed and whatever you put your

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Speaker 2: think so. Not with this economy. My business is so slow.

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to make it through. Now, that's average

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Speaker 2: You've got to come over, like little Jamie, into uncommon faith.

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Speaker 2: Our attitude should be God. You said that I would

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Speaker 2: blessings that I cannot contain. So God, I'm asking for

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Speaker 2: your supernatural favor. Draw new clients to me, cause me

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Speaker 2: When you tap into that uncommon faith, there's a boldness

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Speaker 1: This is what allows God to do the unusual.

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Speaker 2: I know people say, Joel, I don't want to bother God.

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Speaker 2: he wants me well, then he'll make me well. Now

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Speaker 2: the scripture says you have not because you ask not.

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Speaker 2: My question is do you ever ask for the uncommon?

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Speaker 1: Do you ever go beyond.

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Speaker 2: Asking for your daily needs to ask for God's extraordinary

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Speaker 2: favor and unusual breaks so you can accomplish your dreams

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Speaker 2: overcome obstacles. This is just what Joshua did. He was

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Speaker 2: They were running out of daylight, and Joshua knew that

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Speaker 2: if he couldn't get this army totally defeated, then later

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Speaker 2: could have easily gotten discouraged, thought it's not going to happen,

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Speaker 2: too bad for me. But Joshua had this uncommon faith.

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Speaker 2: He said, God, I know this is unusual, I know

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Speaker 1: Imagine the nerve of Joshua.

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Speaker 2: He asked God to do something that had never been

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Speaker 2: done before. God could have said, Joshua, who do you

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Speaker 2: when you have this uncommon faith, it brings a smile

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Speaker 2: He's asking me to stop the sun. God said, in effect, Joshua,

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Speaker 2: Stood still until he completely finished off that army. It

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Speaker 2: uncommon faith. I remember when I first started ministering, right

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Speaker 2: was very concerned that the crowds were going to stay

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Speaker 2: But I knew from years past that anytime it rained

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Speaker 2: on Sunday mornings, the crowds would be down. At our

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Speaker 2: and so if it ever rained, it was almost impossible

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Speaker 1: And this was all very new to me, being up

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Speaker 2: would not rain during our Sunday morning services. I never

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Speaker 2: would think that's far out, Joel, that's extreme. You can't

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Speaker 2: pray that it's not going to rain. Who do you

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Speaker 2: think you are? But God is my witness. For two years,

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Speaker 2: on the Sundays I was ministering, it might rain an

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Speaker 2: and it would be raining very heavily. But when I

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Speaker 2: it was like somebody.

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Speaker 1: Had a big umbrella over the property. It was just

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Speaker 1: as dry as could be.

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Speaker 2: But if I saw any sign of bad weather on

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Speaker 2: the weekend, i'd go to work. I'd start praying, God,

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Speaker 2: predicted for Sunday morning, ninety percent chance of rain, thunder,

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Speaker 2: turn it around. My health is going downhill, but even

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Speaker 2: now you can bring healing to my body. My child

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Speaker 2: hadn't spoken to me in ten years, but even now

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Speaker 2: you can restore this relationship. My finances are running out,

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Speaker 2: but even now you can prosper me.

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Speaker 1: Hav An.

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Speaker 2: Even now, faith, Jesus asked them to roll away the

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Speaker 2: stone where Lazarus was buried.

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Speaker 1: They made excuses, Jesus, you don't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: It stinks, it smells very bad. He's been in there

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Speaker 2: for four days. They tried to talk Jesus out of it.

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Speaker 2: He said, no, just do what I'm asking. They finally did,

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Speaker 2: and you know the story. Jesus prayed Lazarus came back

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Speaker 2: to life. But it all started when a young lady

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Speaker 2: named Martha dared.

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Speaker 1: To believe for the extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Now an uncommon faith says, even though my situation looks dead,

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Speaker 2: even though it looks like I'll never accomplish my dreams.

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Speaker 2: Looks like I'll never be vindicated. Now, when you have

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Speaker 2: this radical faith, you know it's not over till God.

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Speaker 1: Says it's over.

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Speaker 2: Just like God raised Lazarus from the dead. God can

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Speaker 2: resurrect your dead dreams. He can resurrect a dead marriage,

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Speaker 2: dead health, dead finances. May have gotten so bad you

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Speaker 2: feel like it stinks, smells bad, no.

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Speaker 1: Way in the natural.

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Speaker 2: Good news is God has a way even when it

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Speaker 2: looks like there is no way, And when you're down

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Speaker 2: to nothing, if you'll stay in faith, then God is

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Speaker 2: up to something.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible.

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Speaker 2: You have got to shake off discouragement, shake off going

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Speaker 2: around negative and defeated.

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Speaker 1: God is still on the throne. Let me just declare

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Speaker 1: it over you.

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Speaker 2: What you thought was the end is going to turn

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Speaker 2: out to be a new beginning. That job you lost,

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Speaker 2: you thought it was over, but God's going to open

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Speaker 2: up a new position, a better position. People may have

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Speaker 2: lied about you, tried to ruin your reputation, but God

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Speaker 2: is going to vindicate you. God is going to make

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Speaker 2: your wrongs right. The economy may be down, but God

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Speaker 2: is going to supernaturally increase you He's going to draw

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Speaker 2: new clients to you. You may have had unfair situations

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Speaker 2: growing up. All the odds may be against you right now,

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Speaker 2: but know this, no person can keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 2: No obstacle is too high, no enemy is too powerful.

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Speaker 2: And what's happened in your past is not nearly as

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Speaker 2: important as what's going to happen in your future. Right now,

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Speaker 2: the creator of the universe, his face is shining down

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Speaker 2: on you.

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Speaker 1: He is going to open up doors that no man

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Speaker 1: can shut.

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Speaker 2: He is going to bring the right people across your path,

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Speaker 2: the right breaks, the right opportunities. Not only that, God

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Speaker 2: is going to restore the years that have been stolen,

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Speaker 2: the years where people have treated you wrong. It may

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Speaker 2: look like it'll never work out, but God is going

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Speaker 2: to get you to your final destination. You are going

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Speaker 2: to become everything He's created you to be. My challenge

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Speaker 2: to you is to have an uncommon faith.

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Speaker 1: Believe big, dream big, dare to ask big.

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Speaker 2: You may have been through disappointments, you had some setbacks.

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Speaker 2: We all have, but remember every setback is simply a

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Speaker 2: setup for a greater comeback.

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Speaker 1: Don't you dare settle where you are? God wants you

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Speaker 1: to set a new standard for your family.

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Speaker 2: You can overcome every obstacle, You can accomplish every God

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Speaker 2: given dream.

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Speaker 1: The creator of the universe is breathing in your direction.

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Speaker 2: And if you will have this uncommon faith, a radical faith,

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Speaker 2: and even now faith, then just like with Joshua, God

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Speaker 2: will do the extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: Just like with My Father, God will.

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Speaker 2: Take it from the cotton fields to impact in the world.

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Speaker 2: Just like Jamie and the Black Cow, God will give

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Speaker 2: you favor that no person can deny. And just like

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Speaker 2: with Martha, God will turn impossibilities around. He will resurrect

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Speaker 2: dead dreams. And when it's all said and done, you'll

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Speaker 2: be able to say God.

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Speaker 1: Has been good to me.

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Speaker 2: He has shown up and shown out in my life

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Speaker 2: in amazing ways.

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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: Would you pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: repent of 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. Get in a good Bible based church,

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Speaker 2: Keep God first place, He's.

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Speaker 1: Going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a dream that's waiting to happen, but

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Speaker 4: it often feels like you'll never get there? Is your

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Speaker 4: dream to start a business, to see a loved one

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Speaker 4: come to the Lord? Are you asking God? Will it

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Speaker 4: ever happen?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like our dream is so far off.

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Speaker 1: But I believe you're closer than you think. You're on the.

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Speaker 3: Verge of seeing things change in your favor, new doors opening,

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Speaker 3: the right people showing up.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to send you are New Hopes and Dreams

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four Planner. It's not only a calendar, but

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Speaker 2: it has scriptures and inspiration, a place to journal.

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Speaker 3: It'll help you stay focused and encouraged so you can

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Speaker 3: see your dreams come to pass.

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Speaker 4: As you support the Ministry this month with a special

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Speaker 4: end of year gift of any amount, we would like

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Speaker 4: to bless you with the Hopes and Dreams twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: four Planner. With the New Planner, you will start the

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Speaker 4: new year with fresh ideas, fresh hope, and endless possibilities.

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Speaker 4: You'll find monthly calendars and plenty of space to.

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Speaker 1: Plan for a better day ahead.

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Speaker 4: Plus there are inspiring scriptures and thoughts that will encourage

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Speaker 4: you to believe for your dreams.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your prayer and support your

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Speaker 2: year in giving, you're making a difference around the world.

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Speaker 2: A special thank you to our Champion of Hope Partners

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Speaker 2: for your monthly gift. If you're not a partner, I

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Speaker 2: hope you'll consider becoming one. Remember you can watch the

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Speaker 2: services online every Sunday morning, see all the music and ministry,

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Speaker 2: and you can download our daily podcast.

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Speaker 3: We hope you and your family have a very blessed

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Speaker 3: Christmas season and a healthy, productive favor Field twenty twenty four.

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