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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks.

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Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have an.

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Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Hey, God bless you always a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. We love you and we know God has

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Speaker 1: great things in store. If you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll stop by and be a part of

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Speaker 1: one of our services.

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Speaker 2: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: But thanks so much for tuning in today, and again

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming out. I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about this scientist that said

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Speaker 1: to God, we've decided we no longer need you. We

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Speaker 1: can clone people, we can transplant hearts, and do all

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Speaker 1: kinds of things once considered miraculous.

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Speaker 2: God said, that's.

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Speaker 1: Fine, But to prove that you don't need me, let's

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Speaker 1: have a man making contest. The only rule is you

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Speaker 1: have to make men out of dirt. The scientist agreed

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Speaker 1: and quickly reached down to pick up a handful.

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Speaker 2: Of dirt, and God said, not so fast. Go get

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Speaker 2: your own dirt. All right, let me tell you another

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Speaker 2: one since his mother's day. This is from a viewer.

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Speaker 2: Don't blame me.

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Speaker 1: Good mothers let their children lick the mixer when they're

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Speaker 1: making cookies. Great mothers turn the mixer off first. All right,

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Speaker 1: hold up your Bible. 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: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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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 how it's not too

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Speaker 1: late to get started. Many times we put off what

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Speaker 1: we know God wants us to do. Maybe down deep,

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Speaker 1: God's been dealing with you about forgiving a wrong, getting

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Speaker 1: back in shape, having a better attitude, spending more time

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Speaker 2: Or maybe it's.

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Speaker 1: A dream or goal that we know we should be pursuing,

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Speaker 1: starting a new business, writing a book, joining the choir,

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Speaker 1: learning a new hobby. We know God put it on

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Speaker 1: the inside, but so often we make excuses that hold

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Speaker 1: us back, things like I'm too busy. I tried and felled.

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Speaker 1: I'm not that talented. They hurt me too badly. It's

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Speaker 1: easy to talk ourselves out of it. We end up

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Speaker 1: settling for mediocrity. But the good news is God never

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Speaker 1: aborts a dream. We may give up on them, we

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Speaker 1: may quit pursuing new opportunities, quit believing to overcome an obstacle.

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Speaker 1: But every dream, every promise God put in your heart,

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Speaker 1: he still has every intention of bringing it to pass.

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Speaker 1: You may have put it off a week, a year,

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Speaker 1: or twenty five years, but God is saying it's not

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Speaker 1: too late to get started and still become everything God

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Speaker 1: created you to be. But you've got to do you

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Speaker 1: a part and get off dead sinner. You're not too

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Speaker 1: old or too young. You haven't missed your window of opportunity.

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Speaker 1: The dream is still alive on the inside. Now you've

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Speaker 1: got to rise up in faith and say, this is

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Speaker 1: settle where I am. I've let excuses hold me back

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Speaker 1: long enough, But today I'm going to start taking steps

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Speaker 1: I know it's not too late to accomplish everything God's

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Speaker 1: placed in my heart. If you have this kind of attitude,

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Speaker 1: the rest of your life can be the best of

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Speaker 1: your life. Paul told Timothy stir up the gift, fan

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Speaker 1: the flame. He was saying, Timothy, life is flying by.

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Speaker 1: Get busy pursuing your destiny and see you have to

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Speaker 1: stay passionate about what God put in your heart. Don't

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Speaker 1: let one disappointment or even a series of disappointments, convince

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Speaker 1: I've learned every setback means you're one step closer to

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Speaker 1: your open doors. You may have tried and failled a

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Speaker 1: one may be the door that swings open wide.

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Speaker 2: Get your fire back.

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Speaker 1: Some of you have been through disappointments. Things have not

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Speaker 1: Because when we get complacent and we're not pursuing new opportunities,

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Speaker 1: feel their sense of purpose. As long as you're not

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Speaker 1: moving toward what God put in your heart, whether it's

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Speaker 1: fulfilled as you should be. In other words, if you

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Speaker 1: know you should be eating healthier but you're not doing it,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a gnawing right down in here.

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Speaker 1: That's God talking to you, trying to help you come

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Speaker 1: up higher. The good news is it's not too late

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Speaker 2: It, there'll be a sense of dissatisfaction.

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Speaker 1: you're afraid and you don't have to speak in front

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Speaker 1: of people, you're letting your mind talk you out of it.

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Speaker 1: There will be an unrest that will keep you from

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Speaker 1: they're not happy because of their spouse or because of

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Speaker 1: they're not moving toward their God given destiny. That dream

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Speaker 1: that's on the inside is a part of your purpose.

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Speaker 2: It's who you were created to be.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's so important that we don't keep making excuses,

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Speaker 1: that we don't keep putting it off. This means you

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Speaker 1: may have to prune some things out of your life

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Speaker 1: healthy life. You may have to stretch yourself to write

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Speaker 1: that book, to start that business, to coach the ball team.

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Speaker 2: To go on the missionary trip.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it is God is saying, now is the time

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Speaker 1: Let me encourage you to start taking steps toward them,

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Speaker 1: even if they're small steps. If your dream is to

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Speaker 1: be in ministry, don't wait for Billy Graham to call

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Speaker 1: or start a Bible study at the office at your home.

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Speaker 1: If your dream is to have your own business, you

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Speaker 1: can't just sit back and expect God to hand it

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Speaker 1: to you on a silver platter. Start researching it, develop

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Speaker 1: your business plan, learn from others.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says give yourself to your gift.

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Speaker 2: That means do whatever you can to make it happen.

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Speaker 1: You may have tried and it not worked out, you say, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I went to the support group, I went to celebrate

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Speaker 2: Listen, this is a new day.

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Speaker 1: Every disappointment, everything that didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: He used that to deposit something on the inside.

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Speaker 2: That's what's got.

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Speaker 1: You prepared for where you are right now. It may

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Speaker 1: not have happened in the past, but the most important

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Speaker 1: time of your life is the next twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with the time you have left?

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Speaker 1: You and I can't afford to sit around waste another

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Speaker 2: We don't have what it takes in a career.

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Speaker 1: something that doesn't excite us. We'll make up your mind

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Speaker 1: gonna start moving toward your destiny. That means we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get out of our comfort zones. We're gonna start stretching.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna dream bigger, We're gonna think better, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: that God's placed in our heart. Friends, life is too

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Speaker 1: short to live complacent. If you're not actively moving toward

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Speaker 1: Scripture says in Proverbs, complacency kills. That means being stuck

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Speaker 1: less than what God's created us to be I read

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Speaker 1: Somehow, when that liquid solution hardens, they discover the line

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Speaker 1: new fire on the inside. Dreams are coming back to life,

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Speaker 1: Hope is being restored, vision is being reignited. As you

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Speaker 1: You'll feel the sense of destiny knowing that God is

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Speaker 1: know you were made for more. You are anointed, equipped, empowered.

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Speaker 1: Don't you dare settle where you are. God has greater

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Speaker 1: late to get started. You can begin right now.

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Speaker 2: If you will make.

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Speaker 1: That decision to shake off the complacency and start pursuing

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Speaker 1: everything God's created you to be. For many years, even

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Speaker 1: way before my father went to be with the Lord,

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Speaker 1: Victoria has always had a dream of writing books. She

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Speaker 1: especially wanted to write children's books. She knew god birth

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Speaker 1: They told when they got married several years ago, they

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Speaker 1: This was one of the twenty five friends. Life is

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Speaker 1: to be enjoyed some of you. That vacation that you

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Speaker 1: God is saying. You still should that new hobby you

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Speaker 1: wanted to learn, but now you think you're too old.

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Speaker 1: You still should that missionary trip you wanted to go on,

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Speaker 1: but you keep putting it off. You're too busy, You

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Speaker 2: Life to the full.

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Speaker 1: You still should take the vacation, go on the missionary trip,

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Speaker 2: Tell you something funny.

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Speaker 1: Ever since we got married, Victoria has wanted to take

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Speaker 1: ballroom dancing lessons.

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Speaker 2: That is so odd to me. I could see break dancing,

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Speaker 2: but not ballroom dancing.

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Speaker 1: Every year or two, she'll bring it up and start

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Speaker 1: asking me, come on, Joel, let's do something different.

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Speaker 2: Let's take those lessons.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't realize I have white Men's disease, I have

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Speaker 1: no sense of rhythm. But I have to tell you

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Speaker 1: I love her so much that I have volunteered my

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Speaker 1: brother Paul to take those.

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Speaker 2: Lessons for me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he's agreed, though, But what.

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Speaker 2: Am I saying?

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Speaker 1: The reason God gives us certain desires and different things

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Speaker 1: are interesting to us. Is so that we can live

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Speaker 1: a full life, cultivate new interest, explore new hobbies. Bottom

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Speaker 1: line is this, don't die before you really live. Don't

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Speaker 2: Of God's creation.

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Speaker 1: Make your bucket list and start taking steps to live

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Speaker 1: a full life.

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Speaker 2: Friends, it's not too late to get started.

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Speaker 1: Some of you put your dreams on hold, but I

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Speaker 1: believe today a new fire has been lived on the inside.

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Speaker 2: God has birthed fresh new vision into your spirit.

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Speaker 1: When those thoughts come saying it's been too long you

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Speaker 1: missed your opportunity, remember those three words. You still should

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Speaker 1: get rid of the excuses. Fan your flame, stir up

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Speaker 1: the gifts. God doesn't abort any dreams. He wants the

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Speaker 1: rest of your life to be the best of your life.

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Speaker 1: That's why He's already released moments of favor in your

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Speaker 1: future to accomplish dreams, to overcome obstacles.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to.

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Speaker 1: Get in agreement with him, shake off the complacency. If

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Speaker 1: you'll start pursuing what He's placed in your heart. God

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Speaker 1: will open doors that no man can shut. You'll discover

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Speaker 1: talent that you didn't know you had. And I believe

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Speaker 1: in declare you will become everything He created you to be,

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Speaker 1: and you'll have everything He intended for you to have.

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Speaker 2: Amen. How many of you received that today? Well, we

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Speaker 2: never like.

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Speaker 1: To close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of your Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 1: into my heart. I'll make you my lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church, keep

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Speaker 1: God first place.

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Speaker 2: He'll take your place as you've never dreamed of