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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks

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Speaker 2: for supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have

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Speaker 2: an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. So God

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Speaker 2: bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 2: here at Lakewood. But thanks for being with us today.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this man. He said, I've read so many terrible

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Speaker 1: Eating sugar and junk food is for you.

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Speaker 2: I've made a firm New Year's resolution, no more reading

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Speaker 2: say like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 2: am what it says I am. I have what it

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Speaker 2: says I have. I can do what it says I

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Speaker 2: can do. Today I will be taught the word of

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Speaker 2: God confessed. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 2: the God who exceeds expectations.

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Speaker 1: We all have things that we're believing for.

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Speaker 2: Dreams to come to pass, problems to turn around. We'd

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Speaker 2: what we have in mind is not God's best. We

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Speaker 2: think ordinary. God thinks extraordinary. We think let me have

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Speaker 2: enough to get by. God thinks abundance. We think, let

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Speaker 2: me manage this addiction. God thinks freedom. We're asking for

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Speaker 2: the possible when God wants to do the impossible.

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Speaker 1: He specializes in exceeding.

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Speaker 2: Our expectations, and what He has in store for you

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Speaker 2: is bigger, more rewarding, more fulfilling than you can imagine.

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Speaker 1: Paul said in Ephesians.

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Speaker 2: God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we can.

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Speaker 2: I believe this is going to be a year where

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Speaker 2: God exceeds your expectations. He's not going to do what

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Speaker 2: to open doors you never dreamed would open. He's going

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Speaker 2: to look back and think, I never dreamed I'd be

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Speaker 2: to exceed your expectations. He's going to make things happen

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Speaker 2: that you didn't see coming. You didn't deserve it, you

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Speaker 2: showing favor on your life. This is what happened to

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Speaker 2: a man in Acts chapter three. He'd been crippled his

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Speaker 2: As people came in, he would ask them for money.

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Speaker 2: That's all you need, then I'll show up and exceed

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Speaker 2: But like this man, you may feel like you're stuck

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying. What God has in store for you

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Speaker 2: He's about to do the impossible. He's going to take

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Speaker 1: You're about to come.

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Speaker 2: In to some of these exceeded expectations. This is a

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Speaker 2: You've been faithful, you've honored him. Now God's about to

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Speaker 1: Every morning.

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Speaker 2: Lord, I want to thank you that you're going to

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Speaker 2: God is about to visit you again. You've had Samuel.

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Speaker 2: He's been good to you, but you haven't seen anything yet.

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Speaker 2: New doors are about to open, increase promotion that you

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Speaker 2: didn't see coming. Problems are turning around, health is being restored.

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Speaker 2: Exceeded expectations are coming your way in Jesus' name, and

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Speaker 2: like to give you an opportunity before we close, to

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Speaker 2: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray

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Speaker 2: with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 2: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 2: God first place. He's going to take you places that

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Speaker 2: you've never dreamed.

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

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Speaker 2: We all face difficulties and people that are hard to

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Speaker 2: you'll handle it the right way, you don't have to

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Speaker 2: How much time are you spending worried, upset and frustrated.

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Speaker 2: Remember you can watch the services online Sunday mornings, download

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