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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 5: about this kindergarten teacher. She was trying to explain to

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Speaker 5: her students about self esteem. So she said to her class,

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Speaker 5: anyone who feels like you're dumb, please stand up. She

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Speaker 5: Johnny stood up. She thought, oh no, Now what am

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Speaker 5: hate to see you standing there all by yourself. All right,

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Speaker 3: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 3: I am what it says.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: When God put the dream in your heart, a dream

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Speaker 5: That means your children may have served God when they

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Speaker 5: Maybe you have a dream to get out of debt,

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Speaker 5: to pay off your house, to be free from that

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Speaker 5: going to come in to supernatural increase. Maybe you're single

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Speaker 5: What is it in your life that you used to

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Speaker 3: First place we lose the battle is in our own mind.

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Speaker 5: We think I could never start that business, Joel, I

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Speaker 5: don't get any good breaks. I could never get a

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Speaker 5: just because you gave up doesn't mean God gave up.

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Speaker 5: by failures, by rejection. But know this, the seed is

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Speaker 5: The last thing Jesus said on the cross was it

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Speaker 5: This house is going to sell, this agreement is going

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Speaker 5: That means I don't have to be frustrated because it's

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Speaker 5: not happening as fast as I would like. I don't

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Speaker 5: have to be worried because I don't see anything changing.

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Speaker 5: I am confident that God will finish what he started.

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Speaker 5: I may not see it happening, but my report is

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Speaker 5: it's on its way. It may be today, next week,

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Speaker 5: next year, five years, twenty five years.

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Speaker 3: That's okay. I'm staying in faith.

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Speaker 5: I know God is not only going to bring the

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Speaker 5: promise to pass, but he's going to bring us out

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Speaker 5: with a flourishing finish.

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Speaker 3: I think about my brother Paul.

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Speaker 5: He told how ever, since he was a little boy,

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Speaker 5: he had a desire to do medical missions in Africa.

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Speaker 5: He went there when he was twelve years old with

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Speaker 5: my father and it made such a lasting impression on him.

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Speaker 5: He went back again as a college student with a

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Speaker 5: group from the university and they spent a month there

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Speaker 5: in the summer.

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Speaker 3: Helping the underprivileged people.

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Speaker 5: Paul went on to graduate from medical school become a surgeon.

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Speaker 5: For seventeen years, he practiced surgery in Arkansas, very successful.

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Speaker 5: He worked his way all the way up to the

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Speaker 5: chief of surgery. But still he and my sister in law, Jennifer,

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Speaker 5: had this overwhelming desire to do medical missionary work, and

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Speaker 5: so they sent off for applications to different missions organizations.

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Speaker 5: But every time they went to fill them out, this

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Speaker 5: didn't feel right. They just didn't think it was the

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Speaker 5: right timing, and so they put it off.

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Speaker 3: They delayed it. In nineteen ninety nine, our father went

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Speaker 3: to be with the Lord.

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Speaker 5: After Daddy's memorial service, Paul was driving back home to

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Speaker 5: Little Rock and he heard God speak to him, not

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Speaker 5: out loud, but an impression right down in here. He said, Paul,

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Speaker 5: I want you to give up your medical practice and

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Speaker 5: go back to Lakewood and help your family with the

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Speaker 5: ministry in the natural. It didn't make a lot of

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Speaker 5: sense here he had trained all those years in medicine.

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Speaker 5: It looked like it was just the opposite of what

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Speaker 5: he had in his heart. He was having to give

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Speaker 5: up the thing that he loved the most. He came

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Speaker 5: back and for ten years he's helped us pastor the church.

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Speaker 5: Last year, a group of doctors were going over to

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Speaker 5: Africa from the ministry. They invited Paul to go, and

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Speaker 5: he felt good about it, so he went. He got

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Speaker 5: to the little clinic. They put him in the operating room.

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Speaker 5: He hadn't done surgery in nearly ten years, but he

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Speaker 5: said it was just like riding a bike. It came

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Speaker 5: back to him like he'd never even stopped doing it.

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Speaker 3: He was so excited.

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Speaker 5: He came back home and got his whole family and

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Speaker 5: went back over the clinic and spent three months there.

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Speaker 5: This time he was doing surgeries that he had never

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Speaker 5: even done before. The end of that three month period,

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Speaker 5: one night, Paul went outside all alone.

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Speaker 3: He looked up in the African sky and all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden it hit him. He was living his dream.

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Speaker 5: He was doing exactly what God put in his heart

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Speaker 5: as a little boy. God brought that promise to pass.

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Speaker 5: What am I saying, you can trust God with your dreams.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes you may feel like you have to put the

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Speaker 5: thing you.

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Speaker 3: Love the most on the altar.

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Speaker 5: Times you may feel like you're taking a detour going

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Speaker 5: in the opposite direction.

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Speaker 3: But know this, God has a plan.

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Speaker 5: He's got it all figured out.

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Speaker 3: Be patient, it may take some time.

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Speaker 5: Paul first felt that desire at twelve years old, he

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Speaker 5: felt it again at twenty two when he went back

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Speaker 5: as a college student, and today, at seventy five, he's

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Speaker 5: as happy.

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Speaker 3: As can do.

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Speaker 5: You remember, I am his younger, better looking brother. But

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Speaker 5: I know every one of us has dreams and desires

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Speaker 5: that have not yet come to pass. Maybe there are

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Speaker 5: things in your heart you've never told anybody about.

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Speaker 3: Know this. God knows He's the one that put them there.

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Speaker 5: Don't get discouraged because you don't see anything happening. Just

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Speaker 5: keep being your best each day, Keep being a person

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Speaker 5: of excellence and integrity, Keep being good to other people.

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Speaker 5: Every day you do that, you are passing the test,

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Speaker 5: and you are one day closer to seeing the promise

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Speaker 5: come to fulfillment. It says in Psalm one O six

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Speaker 5: talking about the people of Israel, they did not wait

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Speaker 5: for God's plan to unfold. In other words, they missed

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Speaker 5: their promise because they got discouraged. They started compla they

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Speaker 5: didn't think it would ever happen.

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Speaker 3: Don't let that be.

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Speaker 5: You stay in faith when it's taken a long time.

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Speaker 5: Know that God's plan is going to unfold. It may

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Speaker 5: look like the end. It may look like you got

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Speaker 5: to give up the thing you love the most, but

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Speaker 5: recognize that is only a test. When you give it up,

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Speaker 5: God will always give you back something better. And on

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Speaker 5: the fridays of your life when things aren't going your way,

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Speaker 5: you have to keep reminding yourself that Sunday is coming,

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Speaker 5: your resurrection is on its way.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 5: I want you to be confident of this, not wondering thinking, well,

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Speaker 5: maybe this will happen for me. Joel, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I've made a lot of mistakes. Been a long time.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 5: You got to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt,

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Speaker 5: no matter what it looks like, no matter how many

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Speaker 5: odds are against you, God is going to finish what

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Speaker 5: he started in your life.

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Speaker 3: That dream he put on the.

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Speaker 5: Inside, the promise that's in your heart, it is still

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Speaker 5: alive and well. If you will get up each day

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Speaker 5: in faith, live with expectancy that I believe and declare,

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Speaker 5: You're not only going to see your dreams and promises

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Speaker 5: come to pass, but it's gonna be better than you expected.

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Speaker 5: God's gonna bring you to a flourishing finish. Amen, Do

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Speaker 5: you receive that today.

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Speaker 3: I know you do.

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