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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. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Hey, God, bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, and you

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Speaker 1: can come visit us in person. We'd love to have

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

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

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Speaker 1: about this pastor. He'd been out in the woods bear

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Speaker 1: hunting all day long and searched and searched, but didn't

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Speaker 1: see any sign of a bear. Finally, in frustration, he

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Speaker 1: threw his gun down on the ground and he went

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Speaker 1: down to the stream to cool off. About that time,

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Speaker 1: he saw this huge grizzly bear about one hundred yards

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Speaker 1: away coming toward in full speed ahead. He fell down

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Speaker 1: on his knees and said, God, please convert this bear

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Speaker 1: to a Christian. Miraculously, the bear for in his tracks,

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Speaker 1: put both paws up in the air, and said, Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for this food that I'm about to eat.

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Speaker 1: He 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 Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about hearing the heavenly cheers. I grew up playing sports,

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Speaker 1: and I realize the difference it makes to have someone

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Speaker 1: in the stands rooting for you. When you look over

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Speaker 1: and you see your family, you hear them calling your

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Speaker 1: name with their hands in the air, encouraging you. It

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Speaker 1: makes you run a little faster and jump a little higher,

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Speaker 1: gives you a greater determination, more stamina, all because someone

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Speaker 1: is cheering you on. I was in track and field

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Speaker 1: in high school and I ran the mile and one

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Speaker 1: of our meats was out of town, and some friends

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Speaker 1: of mine drove a couple of hours to watch me run.

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Speaker 1: They brought signs that they held up in the stands.

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Speaker 1: Run Joel Run. I acted like I was embarrassed, but

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Speaker 1: really I liked it. But as I circled that track

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Speaker 1: during the race, I could hear them calling my name,

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Speaker 1: Go Joel, you can do this. I ran that day

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Speaker 1: like I was fourst gun. I normally come in third

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Speaker 1: or fourth place, but that day I won the race.

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Speaker 1: It does something to you when you have people pulling

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Speaker 1: for you, When someone your love is in the stands

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Speaker 1: and you know they believe in you, it gives you

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Speaker 1: a boost. You'll achieve things you would normally achieve. Hebrews

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Speaker 1: eleven talks about the heroes of faith and all these

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Speaker 1: people that have gone before us and the amazing things

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Speaker 1: they've accomplished. Noah, Abraham, David, Sarah, people that were known

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Speaker 1: and not known. They believed and endured. They saw giants defeated,

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Speaker 1: walls come down Red Seas Park. When chapter twelve says,

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Speaker 1: seeing that we are surrounded by such a great cloud

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Speaker 1: of witnesses, let us run the race that is set

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Speaker 1: before us. The great cloud of witnesses that were surrounded

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Speaker 1: by are the heroes of faith mentioned in chapter eleven.

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Speaker 1: This paints the picture of a big stadium up in

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Speaker 1: heaven with the race taking place. The people in the

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Speaker 1: grandstands are the saints of old. These heroes of faith

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Speaker 1: are looking down, cheering us on. You're not running your

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Speaker 1: race alone. All of Heaven is pulling for you. Not

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Speaker 1: only the heroes of faith, but your loved ones that

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Speaker 1: have gone before you. Those believers in your family line,

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Speaker 1: your grandparents, relatives you may not have ever met. They're

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Speaker 1: looking over the banisters of heaven. They're in that great

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Speaker 1: cloud of witness saying you go, girl, You go boy,

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Speaker 1: keep running, keep being your best. You've got what it takes.

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Speaker 1: My father went to be with the Lord twenty five

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Speaker 1: years ago. Next month. People often ask me, do you

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Speaker 1: think he knows what's going on? You think he can

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Speaker 1: see what's happening. Always tell them, yes, I know where

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Speaker 1: Daddy is. He's in the grim stands. He's in the

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Speaker 1: great cloud of witnesses. I can hear him cheering me

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Speaker 1: on by faith. I can hear him calling my name, Joel.

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Speaker 1: Keep going. You're making us proud. You're taking new ground.

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Speaker 1: Your loved ones in heaven are not just floating around.

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Speaker 1: They don't know anything. No, they're cheering for you. They

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Speaker 1: believe in you. They had their time. Now this is

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Speaker 1: your time. Hebrews eleven says something interesting after talking about

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Speaker 1: all the heroes of faith and the amazing things they

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Speaker 1: had done. Verse thirty nine says, none of them received

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Speaker 1: all that God had promised, for God has far better

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Speaker 1: For they can't receive the prize at the end of

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Speaker 1: there are things your loved ones accomplished, but they didn't

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Speaker 1: finish it. It couldn't happen in just one generation. They

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Speaker 1: reward when you step up and do what God's put

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Speaker 1: in your heart. It's going to take boldness, not letting

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Speaker 1: fear hold us back. It's going to take integrity, excellence,

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Speaker 1: assignment wasn't complete. Yes, they endured, they sacrificed, they stressed.

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Speaker 1: Some of them faced injustice, discrimination and things that were

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Speaker 1: not fair. But they fought the good fight. They didn't

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Speaker 1: give up, they didn't get bitter, they never complained. They

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Speaker 1: just kept honoring God being their best. Now they're in

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

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Speaker 1: he talked about wanting to buy this place. It was

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Speaker 1: called the Summit. Back then he was speaking for a

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Speaker 1: friend of ours, and I have the recording. He said,

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Speaker 1: one day, we're going to have the Summit for our

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Speaker 1: church home. At that time, Lakewood was in a four

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Speaker 1: thousand seat auditorium. We didn't need a place this big.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes God will put things in your spirit that

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Speaker 1: are for the next generation. You may see further than

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Speaker 1: you're going to go. God works generationally. That's why there

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Speaker 1: are saints of old cheering you on. When you fulfill

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Speaker 1: your course, the scripture says you will benefit. Then this

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Speaker 1: should inspire us to not get complacent, to lay aside

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Speaker 1: with excellence. Your relatives are counting on you. You're not just

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Speaker 1: living under yourself. You're affecting those that will come after you,

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Speaker 1: and you're honoring those that have gone before you. They

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Speaker 1: will benefit, They will receive a reward because you took

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Speaker 1: new ground. You ran your race with purpose. When we

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Speaker 1: heard that the Compact Center was coming available. Something came

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Speaker 1: alive in my spirit. I didn't know at that time

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Speaker 1: that my father had talked about purchasing this building. I

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Speaker 1: The scripture talks about the faith of our fathers, the

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Speaker 1: was my father in the grand stands cheering me on.

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Speaker 1: It was those heroes of faith, encouraging, supporting, believing in

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Speaker 1: me by faith. I could hear the heavenly cheers. I

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Speaker 1: could hear David saying, Joel, the giant may look big.

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Speaker 1: is bigger. I defeated it. You can defeat it too.

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Speaker 1: I could hear Gideon saying, you feel unqualified, intimidated. You

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Speaker 1: don't think you can pastor the church. I've been there.

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Speaker 1: I was hiding when God called me a mighty hero.

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Speaker 1: I was afraid, but God called me to lead the people. Joel,

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Speaker 1: you have what it takes. You are a mighty hero. When

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Speaker 1: you know Heaven is cheering for you. You'll feel supernatural strength.

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Speaker 1: You'll have the faith to do what God's called you

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Speaker 1: to do. We read about the heroes of faith in

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Speaker 1: chapter eleven, but can I encourage you The list is

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Speaker 1: not complete. I'm looking at heroes of faith. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at David's and Sarah's, and Josephs and Gideon's. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at giant killers, burier breakers, people that take new ground,

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Speaker 1: that are finishing what was started generations back. I could

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Speaker 1: imagine my father up in heaven saying the people in

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Speaker 1: at him believing for big things. Look at him setting

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Speaker 1: now bragging on you, admiring your accomplishments, telling others how

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Speaker 1: They see you overlooking wrongs. They see you keep going

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Speaker 1: when you feel like stopping. They see you raising that

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Speaker 1: your relatives in heaven they see it. By faith, you

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Speaker 1: need to hear the heavenly cheers. The people that mean

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Speaker 1: the most to you, the ones that invested in you,

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Speaker 1: that raised you, made sacrifices for you. They're not only

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Speaker 1: for you, You're running for your grandmother. You're running for

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Speaker 1: died at ninety six. Not many people knew him. He

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Speaker 1: He's one of the heroes of faith. He fulfilled his purpose.

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Speaker 1: when I get tired have things come against me. I

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Speaker 1: can hear Granddaddy saying, Joe, you're doing good. Keep going.

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Speaker 1: You're making us proud. But you said, Joel, I don't

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Speaker 1: have anyone in the grand stands like that. My family

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Speaker 1: didn't honor God. We weren't faithful, we were dysfunctional. You

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be hearing this if there wasn't someone in your

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Speaker 1: But can I assure you they know you, They see you,

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Speaker 1: and they're cheering you on. You're making them proud. Your faithfulness,

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Speaker 1: your hard work, your skill is causing them to be blessed.

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Speaker 1: loved ones that serve without fanfare, that endured hardships, that

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Speaker 1: defied odds, accomplish more than people thought. You'll draw strength

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Speaker 1: and inspiration that will help you to believe bigger, you,

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Speaker 1: You need to look up and hear them calling your name.

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Speaker 1: They believe in you. They know you have what it takes.

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Speaker 1: They made it in their day, But this is your day.

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Speaker 1: God has raised you up for this time. David said

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