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

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

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

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 3: You guys sound good as usual.

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Speaker 2: I believe that God wants every one of us to

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Speaker 2: be a superhero.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 2: God wants us to be fearless and courageous. He wants

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Speaker 2: us to be like the ones you see in the movies.

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Speaker 2: You know how they are about Like the time the

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Speaker 2: enemy gets a hold of them, they fall down.

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Speaker 3: He's got him in the gridlock.

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Speaker 2: That superhero turns around and swirls around and before you

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Speaker 2: know it, he's defeating the enemy. Or he comes out

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Speaker 2: of nowhere. You know, you don't know what happened to him.

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Speaker 2: He comes out of nowhere and shows up strong on

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: He may fall, but he shows up strong. And I

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Speaker 2: believe that God wants us to show up strong. He

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Speaker 2: wants us to show up strong, not only for ourselves

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Speaker 2: but for other people. He wants us to be a superhero.

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Speaker 2: And as we were singing together, that's how we're gonna

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Speaker 2: become this superhero powerhouse for Almighty God. It's only gonna

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Speaker 2: come when we do it together. You see, we're not

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Speaker 2: islands among ourselves. We were not intended to be alone.

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Speaker 2: When God created man, he said, you need a helpmate.

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Speaker 2: You need someone who's gonna link arms with you. You

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Speaker 2: need someone that can help you move forward perpetuate my kingdom.

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Speaker 2: You see, we were never designed to be alone. The

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Speaker 2: scripture says that two are better than one because when

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Speaker 2: one falls, the others there to pick him up.

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Speaker 3: You see, we are going to defeat the enemy.

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Speaker 2: We are going to move forward when we're linked arms

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Speaker 2: doing it together. Bruce three point thirteen. Listen to what

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Speaker 2: it says. It says to encourage one another daily. Now

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Speaker 2: that sounds great, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: You look good today? Oh I like that presentation at work?

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Speaker 2: Well you're so pretty. We should do that, shouldn't we?

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Speaker 2: We should encourage each other daily. That's what God says,

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Speaker 2: encourage each other daily. You know, God formed us in

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Speaker 2: our mother's womb. He made us, and he knows how

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Speaker 3: You see, we have.

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Speaker 2: Instructions on how to operate to our highest potential and

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Speaker 3: Word of God. So he says, encourage each other daily.

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Speaker 2: Now listen to the rest of that verse because this

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Speaker 2: is the weighty and meaty part of the verse. You See,

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Speaker 2: if you just encourage, that's great, You'll.

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Speaker 3: Do it if you want to. If you think about

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Speaker 3: maybe I.

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Speaker 2: Should go over and see my grandmother today, but I

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Speaker 2: really don't have time. I've got a lot of things

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Speaker 2: to do. We don't take encouragement as seriously. But listen

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Speaker 2: to this part. This is what God was saying. What

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Speaker 2: happen when we stand together, link arms and encourage each

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Speaker 2: other daily. It's said to encourage each other daily, so

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Speaker 2: the deceitfulness of sin doesn't harden our hearts. There's a

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Speaker 2: weighty promise right there. When we stand together, guess what

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Speaker 2: we stand opposing the enemy's deceit. He wants to deceive us.

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Speaker 2: He wants us isolated. He doesn't want us to have

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Speaker 2: God says, if you will encourage, you will be encouraged.

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Speaker 2: If you will encourage, you can stand against the enemy

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Speaker 2: for someone else. See sometimes when you need encouragement. It's

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Speaker 2: hard to stand against the enemy when.

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Speaker 3: You're discouraged, it's hard to stand against the enemy.

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Speaker 2: I've seen people get so discouraged, so down, so defeated,

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Speaker 2: they couldn't even think straight.

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Speaker 3: You know, when you're discouraged.

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Speaker 2: when you're down and discouraged, that's when the enemy can

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Speaker 2: isn't it interesting that God said our encouragement, Our encouragement

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Speaker 3: I looked over at him, and he's huge.

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Speaker 2: A place for the Texans, do y'all know Christian Covington?

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Speaker 2: Boy, big and strong.

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Speaker 3: That's what we look like on the inside.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about how when Christian Covington and his

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Speaker 2: I just know they play on the defense. I also

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Speaker 3: I do know that much about football. You would be

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Speaker 2: But the way they do it is they stand together.

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Speaker 3: They know each other is.

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Speaker 2: Right there, and they're not gonna let their opponents score.

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Speaker 2: Do you know when we stand together locked arms, we

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Speaker 2: See, encouragement means to impart courage. It means to make fearless,

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Speaker 2: make brave in part courage. That's what God is saying,

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Speaker 2: in part courage to one another, because see, the enemy

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Speaker 2: wants to subtract from what God is doing in our life. See,

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Speaker 2: we have to stand together. We have to be superheroes.

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Speaker 2: When I look at Hebrews three point thirteen in this light,

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Speaker 2: I feel like wonder woman. I think, you know what,

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Speaker 2: every time I encourage somebody, I am slashing at the enemy.

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Speaker 2: I am kicking him, I'm defeating him, I'm pushing him back.

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Speaker 2: You ever see wonder Woman, You can be Clark Kent

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Speaker 2: if you're a guy, stip in in the phone booth

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Speaker 2: and come out Superman.

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Speaker 3: But that's the truth. I really believe that.

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Speaker 2: I believe if we understand the power of encouragement, but

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Speaker 2: we're going to be empowered to encourage. Listen, encourage your family,

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Speaker 2: Encourage your children, Encourage that coworker, Encourage your boss. Hey,

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Speaker 2: encouragement doesn't mean you encourage them because they're being nice

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Speaker 3: You encourage them because God.

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Speaker 2: Is impressing on you that if you'll do that, you

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Speaker 2: when he says encourage one another daily, that that means

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Speaker 2: there's a great exchange that takes place. See if every

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Speaker 2: one of us would encourage someone daily, what would this

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Speaker 2: We can think a lot of things, we can think

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Speaker 2: each other that things will change. You. See, you can't

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Speaker 2: do anything about someone's situation. Was talking to a staff

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Speaker 2: member the other day. Hurricane Harvey, five feet of water

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Speaker 2: she was devastated. She said, I was so discouraged. I

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Speaker 2: our mind, this atmosphere of defeat.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to the church and help out.

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Speaker 2: We were people volunteers all over the place, he distributing,

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Speaker 2: that time, a friend of mine showed up. Showed up

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Speaker 2: She was discouraged, she was overwhelmed, but that friend used

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Speaker 2: the power of encouragement to get her one step closer

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Speaker 3: To her victory, she said.

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Speaker 2: She put that makeup on, went to her husband and said,

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Speaker 2: I'm ready than ever to go. I'm as ready as

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Speaker 2: to help other people.

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Speaker 3: I saw her yesterday.

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Speaker 2: If you looked at her, you wouldn't know that what

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Speaker 2: fighting the good fight of fate. Because she said, every

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Speaker 2: day God said, someone show up to bring me courage

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Speaker 2: and encourage my heart. You see, the enemy wanted to

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Speaker 3: Because see, if he can get your thinking.

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Speaker 2: Going in the wrong direction, he can get your life

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Speaker 2: going in the wrong direction. And that's what discouragement does.

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Speaker 3: Because we're the Church of the Living God.

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Speaker 2: We are the superheroes for God Almighty. You see, we

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Speaker 3: Mean, we couldn't change that situation.

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Speaker 2: I heard it said like this, it's not what happens

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Speaker 2: And because she had a friend that day encourage her,

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Speaker 2: and in part courage the thing that the enemy wanted

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Speaker 2: to do did not happen in her.

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Speaker 3: It didn't happen in her. You see, her friend.

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Speaker 2: Gave her that courage to keep her heart soft, to

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Speaker 2: believe that God had possibilities, that it could be better

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Speaker 2: move forward. That's what encouragement does to us. The Israelites

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Speaker 2: in Exodus six. It says they were too discouraged to believe.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't even hear the words of Moses when God

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Speaker 2: Be discouraged, because we are here to tell people about

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Speaker 2: the God of the possible.

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