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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. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you, and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. If you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop ye be a part

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Speaker 1: of one of our services. I promise you we'll make

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Speaker 1: you feel right at home. I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about this pastor and song

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Speaker 1: leader that weren't getting along, and it started to spill

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Speaker 1: over into the services. One Sunday, the pastor talked about

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Speaker 1: the importance of being a giver. Afterwards, the song leader

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Speaker 1: got up and led the song Jesus paid it all.

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Speaker 1: The next week, the pastor talked about not gossiping, watching

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Speaker 1: your tongue. The song leader got up and lead, I

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Speaker 1: love to tell the story. Another week, he talked about

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Speaker 1: being willing to change. The song leader got up and lead,

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Speaker 1: I shall not be moved. The pastor was so frustrated

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Speaker 1: he resigned. Told the congregation Jesus brought me here and

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Speaker 1: Jesus has taken me away. The song leader then led,

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Speaker 1: what a friend we have in Jesus. Say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 1: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about the secret

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Speaker 1: to solving problems. We all face challenges and things we're

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Speaker 1: believing will turn around. A child that's off course, a sickness,

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Speaker 1: we're dealing with a dream that seems impossible. We've been praying, believing,

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Speaker 1: but nothing is changing. But sometimes God won't allow you

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Speaker 1: to solve your own problem. The secret is you have

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Speaker 1: to help someone out solve their problem. You have to

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Speaker 1: take the focus off yourself and be good to others

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Speaker 1: in your time of need. As you sow that seed,

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Speaker 1: that's what's going to bring the harvest that you're waiting for.

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Speaker 1: But you'll be tempted to think I can't help them.

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Speaker 1: Joel have my own problems. I need to spend my

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Speaker 1: energy to try to fix my situation. But if you'll

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Speaker 1: take your hands off of your problem and be good

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Speaker 1: to someone else, God will put his hands on your

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Speaker 1: problem and make things happen that you couldn't make happen.

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Speaker 1: While you're working on their situation, God is working on

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Speaker 1: your situation. A friend of mine struggled for many years

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Speaker 1: different wavelengths. He tried his best to be loving, kind, understanding,

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Speaker 1: they just didn't get along. Invariably end up in an argument.

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Speaker 1: Everything was so contentious. He had prayed about it, quoted

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Speaker 1: He was the coach of the neighborhood baseball team. There

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Speaker 1: When this father learned that, he took that young man

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Speaker 1: after this father started doing that, his relationship with his

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Speaker 1: helping someone out solve their problem. The scripture says, when

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Speaker 1: Job prayed for his friends, his healing quickly came. Don't

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Speaker 1: you know how many times Job prayed for himself when

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Speaker 1: he wasn't feeling well. God, please restore health back into me. God,

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Speaker 1: releasing your faith. I'm simply saying, don't stop there, because

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Speaker 1: there are times your breakthrough is connected to helping someone

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Speaker 1: else get their breakthrough. Now, maybe you've been praying diligently,

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Speaker 1: standing in faith so strong, but nothing is improving. Now

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Speaker 1: It's time to go be a blessing. Look around, where

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Speaker 1: is a need you can meet. Go pray for that

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Speaker 1: Go help that friend accomplish their dream. As you're helping others,

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Speaker 1: you may not be able to see it, but God

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Speaker 1: is helping you. He's lining up the promotion, the breakthroughs,

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Speaker 1: the healing. You can't sew a seed without reaping a harvest.

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Speaker 1: When I was ten years old, Lakewood was in an

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Speaker 1: We needed to expand the building. My father asked the

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Speaker 1: And there was a small Spanish speaking church about six

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Speaker 1: funds to expand Lakewood. We needed the finances, but he

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Speaker 1: told the congregation, instead of giving money for our building,

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Speaker 1: he was going to take up an offering for their building.

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Speaker 1: Lakewood gave the finances. It was enough to finish their auditorium.

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Speaker 1: In the natural, it didn't make sense. We needed the finances.

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Speaker 1: We had the problem. But my father understood this principle.

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Speaker 1: When you help solve somebody else's problem, God will help

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Speaker 1: solve your problem. Now, sometimes it's not going to make sense.

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Speaker 1: Proverbs says it is possible to give away and have more.

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Speaker 1: It is also possible to hold on too tightly and

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Speaker 1: lose everything. God's ways are not our ways. Everything in

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Speaker 1: you will say, stay focused on getting out of my problem, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I can't help others until this problem is solved. No,

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Speaker 1: helping others is what's going to cause that problem to

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Speaker 1: turn around. Giving your time, energy, resources, that's what's going

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Speaker 1: to open the windows of heaven and cause your dream

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Speaker 1: to come to pass. You would have thought giving away

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Speaker 1: those funds would have kept Lakewood from expanding the building.

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Speaker 1: It was just the opposite. The funds came in for

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Speaker 1: for the steel, the lights, the chairs, the sound system.

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Speaker 1: The building was built debt free, no delays, no complications,

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Speaker 1: and not just that building. Over the years, my father

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Speaker 1: built building after building, expansion after expansion. He paid cash

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Speaker 1: every time. He never lacked resources, never lacked the funds.

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Speaker 1: I believe it a guarded when he helped that Spanish church.

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Speaker 1: He had a need, he had a problem. He didn't

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Speaker 1: just pray about it. He didn't just believe. He helped

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Speaker 1: solve someone else's problem. When you make sacrifices to help

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Speaker 1: other people's dream come to pass, God will make sure

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Speaker 1: your dream comes to pass. Don't live only focused on yourself,

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Speaker 1: sne doesn't have to be finances. You can sow encouragement.

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Speaker 1: for them. The scripture says, when it's in your power

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Speaker 1: to do good, don't withhold it from others. That means

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Speaker 1: when you know, oh, you can be a blessing. You

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Speaker 1: have the resources to help that person in need. You

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Speaker 1: can teach them the skills that you've learned. Don't put

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Speaker 1: it off when you help solve their problem. You're not

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Speaker 1: just being good to them, you are setting a miracle

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Speaker 1: in motion for yourself. When you show favor, the scripture says,

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Speaker 1: fever will come to you. And here's the beauty. When

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Speaker 1: you help others, what you give is going to come

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Speaker 1: back to you, but not in the same proportion. Press down,

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Speaker 1: shaking together, running over. My father helped that Spanish church

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Speaker 1: that one time, but the blessing from that obedience is

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Speaker 1: still coming. When you're in a difficult time, more than ever,

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Speaker 1: you need to look for opportunities to do good. When

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Speaker 1: come to pass. It's good to pray, believe, work hard,

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Speaker 1: only focused on yourself. As you bless others, God will

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Speaker 1: bless you. As you show favor, favor will come to you.

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Speaker 1: The last Sunday that we had services at our old location,

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Speaker 1: I was driving down the road that final time, leaving

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Speaker 1: the services, feeling so grateful for all that God had done.

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Speaker 1: My mind was flooded with good memories and overwhelmed with

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Speaker 1: where God was taking us. I looked up and saw

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Speaker 1: was smiling on us, saying this chapter is finished, but

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Speaker 1: another great chapter is beginning. About that time, I passed

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Speaker 1: that small Spanish church that my father and Lakewood had

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Speaker 1: helped over forty years earlier. Their little sign outside said

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Speaker 1: thank you Lakewood forgiving us our building. My mind flashed

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Speaker 1: back to that time when I was a little boy.

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Speaker 1: I wondered, would I be going to the Compact Center

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Speaker 1: if my father had not helped them in their time

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Speaker 1: these challenges. But he didn't withhold the good when he

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Speaker 1: had the opportunity. Much of this comes down to trusting God, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I can't help somebody else. I got my own problems.

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Speaker 1: I can't give away what I need from my dreams.

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Speaker 1: I'm counting on that when you give your time, your energy,

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Speaker 1: your resources, your talent, you will never end up with less.

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Speaker 1: That is a seed you're sowing that's going to keep

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Speaker 1: coming back to you. I am reaping a harvest from

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Speaker 1: seeds of obedience that my parents sowed fifty years ago.

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Speaker 1: When you live a life of generosity, making sacrifice for

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Speaker 1: impact you for the good. It's going to impact your children,

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Speaker 1: your grandchildren. Those seeds are going to keep on producing.

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Speaker 1: Second King's nineteen King, Hezekiah was on the throne of Israel.

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Speaker 1: He was one of David's descendants. The Assyrian army had

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Speaker 1: They were much bigger and stronger. Hezekiah didn't stand a chance.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah the Prophet told him, the Assyrian army will not

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Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord destroyed one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: went back home, just like Isaiah prophesied. Hezekiah was so thrilled.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine he wondered why God bless them in

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Speaker 1: Isaiah said in verse thirty four, Hezekiah, God didn't do

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Speaker 1: this because of anything you did. He protected you for

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Speaker 1: the sake of his servant David. This was three hundred

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Speaker 1: and five years after David had died, Yet those seeds

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Speaker 1: of obedience, seeds of being good to people were still

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Speaker 1: producing in their family line. Every time you help someone

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Speaker 1: in need, it's not only going to help you, but

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Speaker 1: you are storing up blessings for your children. Every time

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Speaker 1: you helped solve someone's problem, every time you make sacrifices

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Speaker 1: to help them go further, you're so in a seed

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Speaker 1: not only for you to go further, but for those

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Speaker 1: that come after you in your family line to go further.

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Speaker 1: Like Hezekiah, they will see blessings, favor protection because you

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Speaker 1: made decisions that honored God. God in the scripture, Joseph

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Speaker 1: had a big problem. As a teenager, God gave him

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Speaker 1: great things. But his brothers were jealous of him. They

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