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Speaker 3: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 3: put God's very best in your life. Oh God bless you.

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Speaker 3: And I trust today that you're going to be blessed

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Speaker 3: and encouraged. And if you're ever in our area, please

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Speaker 3: today once again. But I'd like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 3: And I heard about this young lady. She brought her

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Speaker 3: And he said, well, sir, I'm a Bible scholar. Dad

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Speaker 5: All right, hold up your Bible, say it like you

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Speaker 3: God to do the extraordinary in your own life. But

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Speaker 3: But you've got to do something out of your normal routine.

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Speaker 3: It's funny. When she first opened up the card to

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Speaker 3: Made me feel real good. But those flowers cost me

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Speaker 3: so in an extraordinary seed. Well, Joel, I'm not going

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Speaker 3: to be happy, to be healthy, to be a blessing

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Speaker 3: to others, to enjoy God's abundant life. Well, you say, Joel,

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Speaker 3: what if I pray and believe like he did and

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Speaker 3: nothing happens. Well, what if you pray and believe in

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Speaker 3: something does happen. Now, I realize not everybody gets healed

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Speaker 3: like that, but you'd still be better off to believe

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Speaker 3: than to sit around depressed and defeated. The fact is

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Speaker 3: one day we're all going to die. But I've made

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Speaker 3: die believing. I'm gonna die with a smile on my face.

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Speaker 3: So in those extraordinary scenes. I loved the story in

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Speaker 3: for twelve years. With a bleeding disorder, and she had

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Speaker 3: but she continued to get worse. And I'm sure she

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Speaker 3: was very tempted to get discouraged. Medical science had given

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Speaker 3: up on her. She could easily gone home and just

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Speaker 3: pull the blinds and say, well, too bad, that's it

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Speaker 3: for me. But no, not this lady. She refused to

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Speaker 3: live with things that were less than God's best. She said,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something unusual, uncommon. I'm gonna reach out

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Speaker 3: and touch Jesus when he comes walking by. She had

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Speaker 3: There were so many people around him she couldn't get

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Speaker 3: to him, and so she had to fight her way

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Speaker 3: through the crowd. No doubt, she's having to push people

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Speaker 3: out of the way. She's sowing those extraordinary seeds, and

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Speaker 3: you know the story. As Jesus came by, right at

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Speaker 3: the last minute, she lunged out with all of her

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Speaker 3: might and just barely touched the edge of his robe,

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Speaker 3: and the Bible says immediately she felt a supernatural power

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Speaker 3: surge into her body. She was instantly made whome and friends.

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Speaker 3: When you get out of your routine and you press

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Speaker 3: in to really get to know God, you make decisions

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Speaker 3: that are pleasing to him. You stretch your faith, then

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Speaker 3: God will do the extraordinary in your life. And Jesus

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Speaker 3: stopped right there and he said to his disciples, who

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Speaker 3: just touched me? And they kind of laughed, said, what

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Speaker 3: do you mean, Jesus, everybody's touching, everybody's bumping into you.

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Speaker 3: He said, no, somebody touched me with such faith and

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Speaker 3: with such expectancy that they drew the miracle working power

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Speaker 3: right out of me. And about that time Jesus' eyes

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Speaker 3: met that woman's eyes. He smiled and said, daughter, your

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Speaker 3: faith has made you whole. Go in peace. And you

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Speaker 3: notice Jesus didn't say my faith has done it. No,

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Speaker 3: he said, because of your actions, because you went out

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Speaker 3: of your way. I'm going to go out of my

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Speaker 3: way and see when you sow those extraordinary seeds, God

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Speaker 3: can bless you in extraordinary ways. But I know too

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Speaker 3: many people today they're stuck in a rut in their marriage,

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Speaker 3: in their finances, in their health. But I want to

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Speaker 3: shake you out of that complacency. Don't just sit back

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Speaker 3: God's best. God wants you to go higher. Are you

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Speaker 3: giving him anything to work with? Are you doing like

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Speaker 3: this lady and stretching your faith, pressing beyond the norm.

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Speaker 3: You need to do something out of the ordinary. That's

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Speaker 3: what gets God's attention. And some of you right now

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Speaker 3: you have areas in your life that are so stale,

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Speaker 3: and it's because you're not stretching. You've gotten comfortable. Do

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Speaker 3: you know you can even get stale coming to church.

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Speaker 3: I found you get out of something what you put

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Speaker 3: into it. And if you find yourself starting to get stale,

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Speaker 3: that's God trying to get you to grow. Maybe it's

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Speaker 3: time that you start serving in one of our ministries,

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Speaker 3: teaching our children, visiting people at the hospital, standing at

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Speaker 3: That would be an extraordinary seed that'll help get rid

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Speaker 3: of that staleness. Or maybe you're stale in your finances,

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Speaker 3: you're not seeing any growth, everything's the same year after year.

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Speaker 3: Well you've got to start planting some extraordinary seeds. Why

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Speaker 3: don't you stretch your faith and give a little bit more?

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Speaker 3: Or maybe instead of going out to eat one night.

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Speaker 3: Send that money to a friend that's struggling. If you

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Speaker 3: don't have extra money, I understand that, But you can

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Speaker 3: give your time. Maybe sit somebody's children, give somebody a

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Speaker 3: ride to church, most somebody's long, but do something to

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Speaker 3: get some extraordinary seed in the ground. Maybe you're stale

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Speaker 3: at the workplace. You haven't had a promotion, a bonus,

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Speaker 3: a raise in a long time. Well maybe you need

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Speaker 3: to sow a seed by getting there a little earlier.

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Speaker 3: You need to stretch your faith by being a little

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Speaker 3: bit more productive, be a person of excellence on that job.

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Speaker 3: You know, go the extra mile, and God can use

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Speaker 3: that to bring promotion and increase in your life. I

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Speaker 3: believe then you'll see that new growth. But we have

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Speaker 3: to make sure that we're keeping ourselves fresh. When we're stelle,

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Speaker 3: it's boring. When it's stale, we just dragged through the

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Speaker 3: day with no joy, no enthusiasm. It's because we're not growing.

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Speaker 3: You got to get out of that rut. If you

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Speaker 3: stay stale, you're gonna get molded. Now. I want us

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Speaker 3: to go into this new year with a freshness, excited

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Speaker 3: about it. If that's going to happen, We got to

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Speaker 3: be willing to get out of our normal routine and

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Speaker 3: plant some extraordinary seeds. Remember, if we keep doing the

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Speaker 3: same thing the same way, we're gonna have the same results.

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Speaker 3: And I'm asking you today to find at least one

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Speaker 3: area in your life that you know that you're kind

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Speaker 3: of stale, and do something out of your normal routine

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Speaker 3: that honors God in a greater way. Maybe you're going

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Speaker 3: to turn that TV off like we talked about at

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Speaker 3: gonna get up fifteen minutes earlier and spend a little

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Speaker 3: more time with God. Maybe you're going to just start

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Speaker 3: treating the people in your life kinder and with more respect.

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Speaker 3: But do at least one thing out of your normal

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Speaker 3: routine for several months, be consistent about it, and you

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Speaker 3: just see if God doesn't do the extra ordinary. Just

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Speaker 3: see if that freshness doesn't come back and you begin

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Speaker 3: to experience new growth. Friends, God has more in store

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Speaker 3: no matter where you are in life. He wants you

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Speaker 3: to go up higher. But we got to get out

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Speaker 3: of these ruts. Let's learn to shake off complacency, and

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Speaker 3: we need to continually be pressing forward, pressing beyond the norm.

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Speaker 3: And I know if you will sow extraordinary seeds. God

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Speaker 3: is a faithful God, you will see the extraordinary in

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Speaker 3: your life. You won't be stale, You'll be fresh, You'll

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Speaker 3: be excited about the future. You'll be growing, and you'll

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Speaker 3: live that life of victory that God has in store. Amen.

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Speaker 3: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 3: repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 3: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that

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Speaker 3: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in

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Speaker 3: a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's

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Speaker 3: going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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