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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. We love you.

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Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop

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Speaker 2: by and be a part of 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 2: But thanks so much for tuning in today, and thank

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Speaker 2: you again for coming out. And I like to start

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Speaker 2: with something funny. And I heard about these three pastors

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Speaker 2: that were in a boat together one day fishing, and

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Speaker 2: one pastor said, you know, we never get to let

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Speaker 2: our hair down. Let's each tell the area that we

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Speaker 2: struggle in the most, our greatest sin, so we can pray.

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Speaker 1: For each other.

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Speaker 2: First pastor said, well, I hate to say this, but

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Speaker 2: I've got a problem with gambling. Sometimes I sneak out

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Speaker 2: at night and gamble. The second pastor said, well, I

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Speaker 2: hate to say this, but I've got a problem with cheating.

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Speaker 2: I hardly ever pay my taxes. The third pastor just

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Speaker 2: sat there quietly.

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Speaker 1: They waited and waited. He wouldn't budge.

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Speaker 2: They said, we are not leaving till you tell us

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Speaker 2: your greatest sin. He said, all right, my greatest sin

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Speaker 2: this boat.

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Speaker 1: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about helping others to win.

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Speaker 2: I've heard it said you will always have what you

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Speaker 2: want if you will help others get what they want,

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Speaker 2: if you will use your influence to help others to succeed,

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Speaker 2: and you take time to give them advice, and you

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Speaker 2: introduce them to people you know, make phone call and

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Speaker 2: put in a good word. When you help others to win,

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Speaker 2: you are sowing a seed for you to come up higher.

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Speaker 2: I had a lady tell how her supervisor wouldn't train

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Speaker 2: her on this new computer program. The company had sent

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Speaker 2: this supervisor away to learn how to use it, but

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Speaker 2: when she came back, she wouldn't share any of the information.

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Speaker 2: She was afraid her coworker might get promoted over her,

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Speaker 2: so she was keeping it to herself. But when we

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Speaker 2: try to hold people back, all we're really doing.

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Speaker 2: If you will live unselfish and help people get to

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Speaker 2: to help you get to the next level. I heard

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Speaker 2: about this professional mountain climber. He was on his way

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Speaker 2: climbers couldn't make it, and along the way, about six

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Speaker 2: The doctor that examined them both said to the man

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Speaker 2: Barnabas was one of the disciples. In a sense, he

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Speaker 2: At one time he hated believers, he was having them

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Speaker 1: I know who he is. He's the real deal.

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Speaker 2: If it had not been for Barnabas using his influence

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Speaker 2: because Barnabas helped me to win. I succeeded because Barnabas

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Speaker 1: Do you know Barnabas will get a reward as well.

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Speaker 2: Friends, There's no greater legacy than to help someone else win.

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Speaker 2: God has so blessed me. I am constantly looking for

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Speaker 2: ways to use my influence to help other people come

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Speaker 2: up higher. Had a pastor call a while back, and

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Speaker 2: we did. There was a man that was very instrumental

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Speaker 1: We've won.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna keep it to myself. I'm gonna help

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Speaker 2: somebody else win. The truth be known, he probably never

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Speaker 2: would have found that contact. This man is not in

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Speaker 1: Here's what I've learned.

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Speaker 2: When you do for others what they cannot do for themselves,

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Speaker 2: you will never lack God's favor. You will never lack

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Speaker 2: God's blessing. And yes, it's good that we accomplish our dreams.

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Speaker 1: That's important.

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Speaker 2: But There's no more rewarding feeling than to have someone

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Speaker 1: Because you helped me succeed.

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Speaker 2: We got our building because Lakewood gave us their contact.

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Speaker 2: I rose to a new level because he stayed late

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Speaker 2: I think about our friend Michael. He's one of our

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Speaker 2: main guitar players here at Lakewood, and Michael loves to

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Speaker 2: help other people win. He's one of the most talented

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Speaker 2: at the top of his game. He's already won. He

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Speaker 2: you bless me with a lot of talent. No, Michael's

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Speaker 2: not keeping it to himself. He's sharing it with others.

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Speaker 2: Invests in young people any more than Michael. Michael took

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Speaker 2: our son Jonathan under his wing years ago and started

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Speaker 2: teaching him how to play the guitar. We never really

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Speaker 2: asked him to, He never lets us pay him for it.

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Speaker 2: This has been going on for seven or eight years,

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Speaker 2: On Friday nights, Michael is not out partying like he

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Speaker 2: He's here at our Celebrate recovery classes.

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Speaker 1: Leading to worship.

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Speaker 2: He's one now, he's helping other.

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Speaker 1: People overcome addictions.

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Speaker 2: When our son Jonathan is sixty seventy years old, he'll

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Speaker 2: still remember. I'm successful in part because Michael helped me

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Speaker 2: to win. Michael helped me to develop my gifts. Michael

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Speaker 2: help someone to win, you become a friend for life.

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Speaker 2: You'll always have a special place in their heart. I

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Speaker 2: remember a few months after my father died, I stepped

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Speaker 2: didn't really know if I had what it took. One day,

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Speaker 2: by the name of John Maxwell.

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Speaker 1: Many of you know John.

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Speaker 2: He's a expert in leadership and a great communicator and

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Speaker 2: just a very well respected man. I'd never met him before.

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Speaker 2: I'd only admired him from a foreign boy. I opened

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Speaker 2: that letter as quick as I could. It said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I watched you on television on Sunday, and you were outstanding.

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Speaker 2: I've got to tell you you've got what it takes.

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Speaker 2: He went on to list several things that he liked.

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Speaker 2: listed several suggestions. Here's some advice. Here's what you can

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Speaker 2: do to be less nervous. Here's what I do when

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Speaker 2: I'm getting prepared, sharing his secrets.

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Speaker 1: Giving his encouragement.

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Speaker 2: Forty years of experience, and now he's pouring it into

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Speaker 2: a young man that he's never even met before. He

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Speaker 2: didn't have to do that. He has already won. No,

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Speaker 2: he understands this principle. True success is when you reach

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Speaker 1: Do you know I still have that note. A few

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you, John Maxwell will be a

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Speaker 2: friend of mine for life. He spoke into me at

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Speaker 2: a very critical time on my journey. Look around this week.

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Speaker 2: Who is God put in your life? They're not thereby accident.

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Speaker 2: God brings people across our path on purpose, and we

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Speaker 2: should live with this awareness that I am here to

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Speaker 2: add value to people. I am here to help them succeed.

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Speaker 2: Don't go around thinking I wonder what they can do

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Speaker 2: for me, I wonder what they have to offer. No,

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Speaker 2: we should have the attitude what can I do for them?

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Speaker 2: How can I help them come up higher? Can I

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Speaker 2: teach them something I know? Can I connect them with

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Speaker 2: a colleague of mine? Don't make the mistake of going

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Speaker 1: That's very shallow. Be a dream releaser.

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Speaker 2: Do like John Maxwell and look for opportunities to call

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Speaker 2: out the seeds of greatness that God's put in every person.

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Speaker 1: Use your talent, your.

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Speaker 2: Influence, your experience, not just to accomplish your goals, but

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Speaker 2: use that to help release a dream in somebody else,

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Speaker 2: to give them more confidence to help.

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Speaker 1: Them go further.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing more rewarding than to lay down at night

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Speaker 2: And I say this very humbly, but God's already helped

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Speaker 2: Shay's dad didn't want to disappoint him, so he went

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Speaker 2: over and he asked one of the young boys in

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Speaker 2: looked around at his friend's trying to get some advice,

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Speaker 2: and finally he said, well, sir, there's only two innings

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Speaker 2: left and we're down by three runs. But sure he

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Speaker 2: can come play. We'll put him in the outfield. Shaye

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Speaker 2: was so excited he could not believe he was out

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Speaker 2: there playing baseball with those other young men. In the

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Speaker 2: last inning, their team was down by one run. There

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Speaker 2: were two outs, and it was Shaye's time to bat.

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Speaker 2: Deep down, those other teammates wanted to put in a

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Speaker 2: pinch hitter. They wanted to send their best batter up,

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Speaker 2: but they knew that wouldn't be right, so they sent

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Speaker 2: Shaye up to the play, basically knowing that they had

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Speaker 2: already lost the game. I mean, Shae didn't have a chance.

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Speaker 2: He was facing their star pitcher. This pitcher wound back

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Speaker 2: and fired the first pitch so fast Shae didn't even

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Speaker 2: have a chance. He swung so late and so uncoordinated,

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Speaker 2: he missed it.

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Speaker 1: By a mile.

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Speaker 2: At that point, the pitcher realized that Shay had some

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Speaker 2: physical challenges. The next pitch, he threw about half the speed,

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Speaker 2: but once again Shay swung and missed by a mile.

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Speaker 2: This time, the pitcher stepped off the mound and walked

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Speaker 2: much closer to home play. He threw the ball as

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Speaker 2: soft as he could, and believe it or not, Shaye

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Speaker 2: hit the ball. It went about five feet right in

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Speaker 2: front of the home play. The pitcher ran and picked

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Speaker 2: it up just out of instinct. He was about to

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Speaker 2: fire it to first base and win the game, but

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Speaker 2: out of the corner of his eye he saw Shay

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Speaker 2: running the best that he could.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have the heart to throw it.

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Speaker 2: On purpose, he threw the ball over the first baseman's.

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Speaker 1: Head into the outfield. The dad stood up and said, run, Shay, run.

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Speaker 2: Kind of like run for us, run, and Shay went

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Speaker 2: to first headed towards second. By this time, all the

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Speaker 2: other boys knew what was going on, and on purpose,

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Speaker 2: they kept throwing the ball over each other's heads, letting it.

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Speaker 1: Go through their legs.

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Speaker 2: And Shay rounded third base and the whole crowd was

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Speaker 2: going shame Shay, Shae, and Shae came in with a

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Speaker 2: game winning run. Father had these big tears running down

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Speaker 2: his cheeks. But that day, those boys deposited something in

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Speaker 2: Shae that he'll never forget. When he's seventy years old,

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Speaker 2: he'll remember the time he scored the game winning run. See,

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Speaker 2: sometimes you have to give up winning so somebody else

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Speaker 2: can win. Sometimes you have to make sacrifice to let

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Speaker 2: someone else get ahead. Sometimes you have to put your

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Speaker 2: own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release

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Speaker 2: a dream in somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Here's the key.

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Speaker 2: What you may happen for others, God will make happen

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Speaker 2: for you When you live unselfishly and you help somebody

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Speaker 2: else get ahead, God will make sure somebody's there to

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Speaker 2: help you get ahead.

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Speaker 1: My challenge is make every day a shay day.

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Speaker 2: Find somebody to invest in, somebody you can help come

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Speaker 2: up higher. Don't go to bed without knowing you did

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Speaker 1: I'm asking us.

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Speaker 2: To become dream releasers. Believe in people before they succeed.

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Speaker 2: Call out those seeds of greatness. When you do for

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Speaker 2: others what they cannot do for themselves, you will always

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Speaker 2: have God's favor. You will not only accomplish your dreams,

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Speaker 2: but God will take you higher and higher. And I

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Speaker 2: believe and declare you will become everything God has created

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Speaker 2: you to be. You will have everything God intended for

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