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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jorlan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast, and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're gonna have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the

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Speaker 1: message Welcome. It's a joy to come into your homes

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Speaker 1: each week.

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Speaker 2: We love you, and we know.

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Speaker 1: That God has great things in store for each one

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Speaker 1: of you. And I've been saying it almost every weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're believing that two thousand and six is going to

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Speaker 1: be your best year so far. So you get in

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Speaker 1: agreement with us, and I know God's gonna do great

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Speaker 1: things in your life. Hey, come out and see us

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Speaker 1: whenever you can. Don't come through Houston without stopping by.

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Speaker 1: These are the finest, most blessed friendly people in all

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Speaker 1: the town. Come by and see us sometimes. Hey, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I like to start with something funny each week,

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Speaker 1: and of course you know these are not doctrinally correct,

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Speaker 1: especially today's just to make us laugh.

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Speaker 2: But I heard about these three.

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Speaker 1: Men, a Baptist, a Catholic, and a Charismatic. They suddenly

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Speaker 1: died and went to heaven, and Peter met them and

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Speaker 1: said I'm sorry, guys, your living quarters are not ready

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Speaker 1: quite yet. He didn't know what to do, so he

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Speaker 1: called Satan and asked if he would keep them for

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Speaker 1: a little while. Satan reluctantly agreed, and a few hours

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Speaker 1: later Satan called back and said, Peter, you've got to

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Speaker 1: come get these guys. The Catholic man is forgiving everybody,

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Speaker 1: the Baptist man is saving everybody, and the Charismatic has

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Speaker 1: already raised enough money for air conditioning. All right, hold

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Speaker 1: up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about stirring up the gift

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Speaker 1: that's on the inside. Every one of you is full

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Speaker 1: of incredible potential. God has put seeds of greatness in you.

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Speaker 1: He's given you dreams and desires. You have something to

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Speaker 1: offer that nobody else has. But too often we allow

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Speaker 1: adversities disappointments and setbacks to push these things down, and

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Speaker 1: we find that we're not pressing forward anymore, we're not stretching,

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Speaker 1: we're not believing to rise any higher.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I've seen some of the most gifted, talented people around

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Speaker 1: go through some of the most unfair, unfortunate experiences divorce, abuse, neglect.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to think, why is this happening to me?

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Speaker 1: What did I do to deserve any of this? Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what it is. It's because the enemy knows what's

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Speaker 1: on the inside of you.

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Speaker 2: He knows what you're carrying.

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Speaker 1: He's going to do everything he can to keep that

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Speaker 1: seed from taking root. He doesn't want your gifts and

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Speaker 1: talents to come out. He doesn't want us to accomplish

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Speaker 1: our dreams. He wants to drag around live in a

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Speaker 1: very average, mediocre life. But understand this, God did not

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Speaker 2: Extremely valuable on the inside.

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Speaker 1: And life may have tried to push you down through disappointments,

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Speaker 1: through setbacks, through divorce. In the natural, you don't see

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Speaker 1: how you could rise any higher. You don't see how

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Speaker 1: you're ever gonna be happy. You need to dig your

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Speaker 1: heels in and say, no, I know what I have

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Speaker 1: on the inside. I'm a child of the most High God.

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Speaker 1: I'm full of his can do power. I'm gonna rise

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Speaker 1: up and become everything God's created me to be.

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Speaker 2: See Paul told Timothy to stir up the gift.

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Speaker 1: You've got to stir up your gifts, stir up your talents,

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Speaker 1: stir up the potential, stir up your dreams.

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Speaker 2: It's up to you and some of you.

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Speaker 1: These gifts and talents and dreams, they are pressed down

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Speaker 1: beneath depression and discouragement, beneath negative voices people telling you

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Speaker 2: They're pressed down.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is they're still in there. Now

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Speaker 1: I love what God said in Isaiah forty three to nineteen. Behold,

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Speaker 1: Can you not perceive it? You may have had more

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Speaker 1: than your share of unfair negative experiences, but know this

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Speaker 1: give you a new beginning. Don't give up on your dreams.

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Speaker 1: Don't go around thinking that you've peaked, You've reached your

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Speaker 2: No, I may not know any of that, but I

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Speaker 2: do know our God, and he is an all powerful God.

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Speaker 1: He has more in store for every one of you.

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Speaker 1: And my question for you is can you perceive it?

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Speaker 1: Can you make room for it? First place it starts

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Speaker 1: is right here in our thinking. If your thinking is limited,

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Speaker 1: then your life is going to be limited. Well, you said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: Well let it go.

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Speaker 1: This is a new day. Well, my marriage didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: I'm so disappointed. Never dreamed i'd be here in life.

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Speaker 1: Well that's unfortunate, but it's not the end. When one

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Speaker 1: wants to give you this new beginning. He still has

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Speaker 1: a great plan for your life. But you know when

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Speaker 1: that's going to happen. Whenever you quit looking back, whenever

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Speaker 1: you quit grieving over what you've lost. There's nothing that

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Speaker 1: will keep us from the good things of God anymore

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Speaker 1: than living in the past. Years ago, I went into

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Speaker 1: They were about fifteen feet apart. They were both automatic doors,

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Speaker 1: and when you went through the first set of doors,

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Speaker 2: I had to go beyond that. And really it's the

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Speaker 2: same way in life.

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Speaker 1: You have to let go of your disappointments, let go

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Speaker 1: of your failures, let those doors totally close. It's nothing

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Speaker 1: you can do about them anymore. You cannot change the past,

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Speaker 1: but you can do something about the future. And what's

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Speaker 1: in front of you is much more important than what's

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Speaker 1: the right attitude, you will give birth to more in

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Speaker 1: the future than you've lost in the past. Quit looking back.

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Speaker 1: This is a new day. It may seem like those

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Speaker 1: dreams have died, but God can resurrect your dead dreams.

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Speaker 1: He is a supernatural god. And when we believe, all

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Speaker 1: things are possible. And some of you feel like that

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Speaker 1: life has kind of knocked you down through disappointments, through

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Speaker 1: unfair situations. But whatever you do, don't stay down, get

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Speaker 1: If you can't find anybody to encourage you. You've got

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Speaker 1: to learn to encourage yourself. Get up in the morning,

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Speaker 1: put your shoulders back, look in here and say, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I've come too far to stop now. I

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Speaker 1: gonna get back up again. I know I'm a victor,

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know too many people that are living in the

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Speaker 2: Joel.

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Speaker 1: I don't like my job, but it's good enough. My

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Speaker 1: husband and I we don't get along, but it's good enough.

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Speaker 1: I'm not using my gifts, I'm not doing anything I.

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Speaker 2: Like, but it's good enough. At least I'm working. No,

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Speaker 1: Keep pressing, keep believing you've got great things on the inside.

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Speaker 1: You were not made to be average. You were made

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Speaker 1: to excel. You were made to leave your mark on

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Speaker 1: this generation. Every day you need to say I am talented,

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Speaker 1: I am well able. I will see my dreams come

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Speaker 1: life we will always have forces opposing us to try

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Speaker 2: And many times the.

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Speaker 1: Adversities, the unfair situations, that's simply the enemy trying to

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Speaker 1: our dreams. And you may feel like you're at an

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Speaker 1: empty place in life today. Not much is going your way.

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Speaker 1: You've been through difficulties. But I believe God has brought

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Speaker 1: I want a light of fire under you today. You

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Speaker 1: have a gift on the inside. You are talented, You

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Speaker 1: not up to him, It's up to you. And you

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Speaker 1: You may have had more than your share of unfair

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Speaker 1: things happen. But it's not how you start.

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Speaker 2: That counts, it's how you finish.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you shake off the past, shake off that discouragement.

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Speaker 1: God is still in complete control of your life. He's

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Speaker 1: got you in the palm of his hand, and if

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Speaker 1: you'll keep your trust in him, he promised that no

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Speaker 1: it may be difficult, but he said he'd turn it

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Speaker 2: It all to your advantage.

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Speaker 1: Don't get complacent, don't let good enough be good enough.

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Speaker 2: Keep yourself stirred up.

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Speaker 1: The forces that are for you are greater than the

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Speaker 1: forces that are against you.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says, weeping may endure.

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Speaker 1: For a night, but joy is coming in the morning.

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Speaker 1: You got to get your dreams back, get your fire back.

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Speaker 1: Don't just survive your marriage, get a new vision for

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Speaker 1: it today. Just drag into work doing the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Start taking some steps of faith. You've got more in you.

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Speaker 1: Push yourself a little bit. May not have happened in

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Speaker 1: the past, but this is a new day. If you'll

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Speaker 1: keep pressing, hoping, believing, not only will you rise higher,

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Speaker 1: but you'll see things begin.

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Speaker 2: To change in your favor.

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Speaker 1: Well, you say, Joel, I tried and I failed. We'll

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Speaker 1: dream another dream. Well, I've suffered a big loss, a

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Speaker 1: big setback, get back up and go again. That's what

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Speaker 1: we all have to do. I think about Adam and Eve.

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Speaker 1: They went through a great disappointment. Their son came killed,

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Speaker 1: distraught they must have been. But they said in Genesis four,

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Speaker 1: verse twenty five, God has appointed another seed unto us.

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Speaker 1: They were saying, in effect, we may be knocked down,

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Speaker 1: And in your difficult times, when you don't feel like

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Speaker 1: it can get any worse, you've got a bad report

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Speaker 2: To the people that walk away from you.

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Speaker 1: You may think, Man, I need them, Joel, They're a

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Speaker 1: great friend.

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Speaker 2: I count on them. He's a great business partner. Now

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Speaker 2: you don't have to have them to fulfill your purpose.

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Speaker 1: And when God is finished with something, there's no amount

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Speaker 1: of glue that can hold it together.

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Speaker 2: You might as well let it go. Do like David,

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Speaker 2: wash your face, go out and get ready for something

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Speaker 2: new that God wants to do.

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Speaker 1: You have to keep yourself in a healthy environment, even physically.

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Speaker 1: If you tend to struggle with discouragement and depression. Don't

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Speaker 1: about your problems, having a pity party. Open the windows,

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Speaker 1: let the sun shine in, put on some good praise music.

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Speaker 1: You got to create an uplifting, positive environment. When you're

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Speaker 1: tempted to get discouraged, don't you dare go find five

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Speaker 1: other friends that are discouraged and sit around talk about

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Speaker 1: your problems. Find somebody to cheer you up. Find somebody

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Speaker 1: that's come out here in Lakewood. We'll do it. But

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Speaker 1: get around people that are gonna inspire you to rise higher.

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Speaker 2: You have to be.

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Speaker 1: Careful who you associate with. Do you know people can

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Speaker 1: steal the dream out of your heart. I think about

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Speaker 1: how many people told us that we'd never get this facility.

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Speaker 1: Business leaders, experts, jord don't waste your money, don't waste

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Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen. I could have easily given up.

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Speaker 1: I could have thought, you know what, they're probably smarter

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Speaker 1: let it go. But I said, no, God, I believe

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Speaker 1: you put this in my heart, and I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: look up fifty years from now and say, I wonder

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Speaker 1: what would have happened if I just believed. I wonder

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Speaker 1: what would have happened if I hadn't.

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Speaker 2: To let them talk me out of that. I can't

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Speaker 2: think of anything.

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Speaker 1: Worse than coming to the end of your life and

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Speaker 1: having a bunch of regrets. What could have happened, what

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Speaker 1: might have happened, what should have happened. I remember one

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Speaker 1: consultant that we hired. Every time we met, he told

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Speaker 1: us all the reasons why it wasn't gonna work out.

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Speaker 2: He always had a negative report. One day I smart

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Speaker 2: enough to say, you know what, we don't need him

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Speaker 1: He is contaminating our environment. He's pulling everybody down. You

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Speaker 1: got to surround yourself with people that encourage you, people

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Speaker 1: that build you up, not a bunch of negative, critical,

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Speaker 1: can't do it people. And sometimes the people that will

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Speaker 1: discourage you the most are the people that are closest

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Speaker 1: to you. I think about David when he told his

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Speaker 1: older brother Eliab that he wanted to fight Goliath.

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Speaker 2: Eliab tried to put him down.

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Speaker 1: He said, David, what are you even doing out here

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Speaker 1: on the battlefield. You're supposed to be at home taking

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Speaker 1: care of our father's few sheep that he's left you with.

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Speaker 1: Tried to make him feel small. He's really saying, David,

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Speaker 1: you're never going to do anything great. You don't have

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Speaker 1: what it takes. And David had to make that choice.

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Speaker 1: Was he going to believe that lie or believe what

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Speaker 1: God put in his heart. He could have said, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's right.

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Speaker 2: I'm just a kid.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel too talented. Maybe I will get killed

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Speaker 1: out there. But no, David said, eliab, I don't care

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Speaker 1: what you say about me. I know who I am,

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Speaker 1: I know what God's put on the inside of me.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna step out and fulfill my God given destiny.

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Speaker 2: He did just that.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting that even Jesus had to leave his

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Speaker 1: hometown of Nazareth because the people were soul filled with unbelief.

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Speaker 1: He even knew if he stayed in that negative.

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Speaker 2: Environment it would hold him back. You may have.

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Speaker 1: Family members, cousins, aunts, uncles, relatives, brothers, sisters.

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Speaker 2: They're good people.

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Speaker 1: You love them, you treat them with respect, but you

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Speaker 1: know you cannot be around them on a daily basis.

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Speaker 2: You have to love them from a distance.

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Speaker 1: Because listen, life is too short to be pulled down

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Speaker 1: by negative, jealous, cynical people. It doesn't matter how great

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Speaker 1: your gift is, doesn't matter how great that seed is.

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Speaker 1: If you don't put it in the right environment, it's

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Speaker 1: not gonna take root and grow.

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Speaker 2: It's not gonna really flourish.

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Speaker 1: You need to hang around other dreamers, hang around people

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Speaker 1: that are gonna help.

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Speaker 2: You become all God's created you to be.

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Speaker 1: The good news today is God has already given you

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Speaker 1: everything you need to live his life of victory. He's

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Speaker 1: put the seeds of greatness on the inside.

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Speaker 2: Let me challenge you again.

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Speaker 1: Stir up your gifts, stir up your talents, stir up

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Speaker 1: those dreams.

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Speaker 2: God wants to do a new thing.

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Speaker 1: You may have been through more than your share of

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Speaker 1: unfair situations, but you've got to let the past be

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Speaker 1: the past. This is a new day. Remember, God has

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Speaker 1: another seed. He can resurrect those dreams. There are good

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Speaker 1: days up ahead. Why don't you make a decision to

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Speaker 1: do like Caleb, dig your heels in and keep pressing,

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Speaker 1: keep believing, keep stretching until you see it all come

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Speaker 1: to pass. Now. I know this, if you'll stay in

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Speaker 1: the right environment and keep yourself stirred up, you're.

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Speaker 2: Going to rise higher and higher.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see your gifts and talents come to

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Speaker 1: the full, and I believe you'll live that life of

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Speaker 1: victory that God has in store. Amen. Or We never

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Speaker 1: like to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you

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Speaker 1: pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, come into my heart.

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Speaker 2: I make you my Lord.

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Speaker 1: And safer friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe.

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Speaker 2: You got born again.

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Speaker 1: Get in a good Bible based church, Keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the stresses of life can feel like you're just

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Speaker 3: getting by. God wants to bless us, but how do

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Speaker 3: you move from barely enough to just enough to more

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Speaker 3: than enough.

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Speaker 1: We all face difficulties and people that are hard to

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Speaker 1: deal with. You can't eliminate all the stress, but if

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Speaker 1: you'll handle it the right way, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: live stressed out. Much of our frustration is we're trying

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Speaker 1: to control things that we can't control, letting things stress

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Speaker 1: us that don't have to. And I'd love to send

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Speaker 1: you my new book, fifty five Ways to be Blessed

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Speaker 3: You can move from stressed to blessed and fully realize

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Speaker 3: God's goodness, favor and blessings. As our way of saying

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Speaker 3: thank you for your gift of any amount to the ministry.

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Speaker 1: How much time are you spending worried, upset and frustrated.

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Speaker 1: Life is too short to live stressed. If you'll make

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Speaker 2: All over the world.

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Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online Sunday mornings, download

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Speaker 1: our daily podcast, listen on SiriusXM, YouTube, social media. But

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Speaker 1: until we meet again, let the Lord bless you and

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