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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.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 1: Friend, reappreciate you, and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: I want to encourage you today that God has great

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Speaker 2: purpose for your life. You a whole meaning, you hold potential,

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Speaker 2: you hold everything you need to make this earth a

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Speaker 2: better place. And I want to charge us today to

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Speaker 2: just reevaluate our life and realize we are here for

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Speaker 2: God's purpose and God's glory. You know, sometimes it's easy

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Speaker 2: to feel like we're here to just go to our job,

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Speaker 2: go to school, have our friends, raise our family. But

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Speaker 2: can I tell you today, God has marked you to

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Speaker 2: have an influence on this earth. See you, you just

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Speaker 2: being here, You being the best you can be, using

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Speaker 2: your gifts, using your talent and honoring God. You're making

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Speaker 2: an eternal difference. You are causing this earth to be enriched,

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Speaker 2: and you are moving the Kingdom of God forward. You see,

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Speaker 2: sometimes we don't appreciate what God has given us. We

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Speaker 2: don't understand this gift and the purpose that we're here

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Speaker 2: for and I believe when we shake ourselves and we

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Speaker 2: say listen, listen. I'm not here by accident. I'm not

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Speaker 2: here because my parents wanted a baby. I'm not here

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Speaker 2: just to take up space and time on this earth.

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Speaker 2: But I'm here for an eternal reason. My being here

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Speaker 2: has meaning and my life matters. You see, when God

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Speaker 2: looks at you, he looks at you like you matter,

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Speaker 2: and he wants you to take what he's given you,

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Speaker 2: and he wants you to mix it with faith, and

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Speaker 2: he wants you to move forward on this earth. You

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Speaker 2: see a lot of times we can't see what God

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Speaker 2: has given us. Let's just be really real. You know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes we can't see the gifts and talents. We can

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Speaker 2: look at other people and we can see how they excel.

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Speaker 2: We can see how they've got such a great personality.

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Speaker 2: Oh it seems so easy for them. They can just

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Speaker 2: do this. They're so creative. Oh they're so smart. How

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Speaker 2: can they figure all that out? We can see it

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Speaker 2: in others, but we can't always see it in ourselves.

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Speaker 2: And see when we can't see it in ourselves doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean it's not there. See, God sees it in us

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Speaker 2: because God put it there. The Bible says when Jesus

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Speaker 2: went to Earth, he led the captives free, and he

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Speaker 2: gave gifts to men. Do you know He's given you gifts.

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Speaker 2: We don't all have the same gifts. We've got to

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Speaker 2: be comfortable with our gifts. We got to be able

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Speaker 2: to recognize our gifts. We've got to walk in those

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Speaker 2: gifts and not compare those gifts. We got to know

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Speaker 2: that our gifts are here for a purpose, and we've

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Speaker 2: got to she ate what God has given us. I

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Speaker 2: think about Moses. He was raised as an Egyptian. He

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Speaker 2: for you. Now. God knew exactly who he was talking to.

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Speaker 2: He knew everything about Moses. He created Moses. He saw

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Speaker 2: Moses was. He knew he was dealing with. He said, Moses,

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Speaker 2: I want you to lead my people out of Egypt

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Speaker 2: I'm going to use you to do it. See it's

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Speaker 2: so interesting. I can only imagine Moses standing there like, really, God,

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Speaker 2: it says an Exodus, for he literally pleaded with God.

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Speaker 2: He said, no, God, not me. You got the wrong man. God,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he was thinking about how I've been in

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Speaker 2: the desert. Lord, you don't know. I mean, you got

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Speaker 2: the wrong man. But God was saying, no, I've been

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Speaker 2: shaping you from the beginning. Every experience you have, every

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Speaker 2: gift God placed in you, has brought you for such

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Speaker 2: God used Moses in a powerful way, even though Moses

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Speaker 2: find it very interesting. In Acts seven, twenty two, hundreds

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Speaker 2: of years later, after Moses was dead, this is what

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Speaker 2: the writer of Acts wrote about Moses. Says, Moses was

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Speaker 2: from what he was telling God. See. Isn't it interesting

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Speaker 2: what he couldn't see in himself? God had others see. See.

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Speaker 2: You may not be able to see your gifts, your talents,

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Speaker 2: use them for God, let God take those and turn

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Speaker 2: them into supernatural abilities. People will see what you have

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Speaker 2: and you will accomplish great things in your life. But

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Speaker 2: it's up to us to mix our abilities, our gifts

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Speaker 2: that God's given us with faith and get up every

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Speaker 2: Because I can tell you when God asked you to

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Speaker 2: do something, Can I just give you a little hint

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Speaker 2: right now that you probably already know is not gonna

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Speaker 2: be easy. God's gonna call you to some hard stuff.

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Speaker 2: Why God, I like easy, I like comfortable. God. I

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Speaker 2: like to do those things that are easy for me

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Speaker 2: to do. God's saying, I want you to take those

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Speaker 2: want you to give them to me, because see those

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Speaker 2: difficult places, that's where you grow. When God speaks to

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Speaker 2: being me. He's speaking to your potential. He's saying, if

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Speaker 2: easy places. He's gonna call you to some tough things.

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Speaker 2: But just like Moses, you're gonna look back and you're

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Speaker 2: gonna go. God, you did more than I could ask,

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Speaker 2: think or imagine. God, You've fulfilled my life. You've enriched

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Speaker 2: my life. But see, all along the way, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have to stir up the gifts of God within us.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have to use our faith. We're gonna have

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Speaker 2: to believe in our abilities. The apostle Paul wrote to

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Speaker 2: a young man named Timothy. He wrote a letter to

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Speaker 2: him for two reasons, One because he loved him, and

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Speaker 2: two because he saw that tim Pathy was extremely discouraged.

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Speaker 2: He was facing some situations and he did not feel

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Speaker 2: like he had the ability to carry out what God

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Speaker 2: had called him to do. In fact, his mentor, Paul

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, am I ever going to see Paul again?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I need Paul. Have you ever needed someone

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Speaker 2: him a letter and he said, Timothy, I'm writing you

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Speaker 2: this letter to remind you to stir up the gifts

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Speaker 2: of God within you by faith. But since it's Mother's Day,

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Speaker 2: can I back up in that letter and just tell

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Speaker 2: God's saying to you today. He's saying, he wrote this.

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Speaker 2: He said, Timothy, I see the faith of your grandmother

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Speaker 2: I'm sure lives in you. What a compliment I mean

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Speaker 2: for a mother, that's a very good compliment. If you

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Speaker 2: He was saying, I see that you came from a

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Speaker 2: good example. You've learned how to live. But then he

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Speaker 2: said this Paul, I believe this faith lives in you,

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Speaker 2: so it's time for you to use your faith and

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Speaker 2: stir up your gifts. I think in essence, he was

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Speaker 2: really giving those mothers the greatest compliment in the world.

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Speaker 2: He was charging their son to say, don't live off

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Speaker 2: but it's time to find your faith, and it's time

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Speaker 2: to mix it with your ability, because you've got a

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Speaker 2: job to do. You see the breath of encouragement. It's

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Speaker 2: the greatest gift you can give someone's child to say,

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Speaker 2: my children would find their own faith. Yes, I've been

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Speaker 2: a good example, but they would find their faith, and

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Speaker 2: they would mix that faith with the ability and the

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Speaker 2: gifts that God's given them, and they would charge into

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Speaker 2: this world having a positive effect, an eternal result on

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Speaker 2: this earth. See, they're not here by accident, and neither

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Speaker 2: are you. They're here for a purpose. You're gonna go

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Speaker 2: through many different seasons of life. Don't just do it

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Speaker 2: thinking you're getting through it. Do it with purpose and destiny.

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Speaker 2: Stir up the gifts. You are making waves everywhere you

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Speaker 2: go for God. You have an assignment. God needs you.

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Speaker 2: Your life matters. Invite Jesus into every area of your life.

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Speaker 2: Invite him into your boat, so to speak. You see

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Speaker 2: the first time that Jesus meant Simon Peter before he

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Speaker 2: changed his name. He had never met him before. Simon

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Speaker 2: boat so he could finish the work. Now, Simon Peter's boat,

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Speaker 2: you know what it represented. It represent in his office.

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Speaker 2: It was his vocation it was his livelihood. He could

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Speaker 2: Can't get in the boat. That's only for fishing. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's real interesting. The day that Simon Peter let him

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Speaker 2: it became more than a job. It became a calling.

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Speaker 2: When he allowed him in his boat so that Jesus

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Speaker 2: It became a calling for Peter's life. It became a

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do the work of God. You see,

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Speaker 2: he was a fisherman, but that calling changed him into

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Speaker 2: a fisher of men. God wants in your boat, he

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Speaker 2: changing diapers, he wants in the middle of your family.

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Speaker 2: He wants to keep doing the work. But guess what

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Speaker 2: He's got to get in your boat to finish it up.

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Speaker 2: You know what. I love my mother. She's here today.

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Speaker 2: Happy Mother's Day. I love Madodi. She's here today. Happy

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Speaker 2: Mother's Day. I've watched my mother She's had a business

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Speaker 2: in Houston for the last forty years, and I've watched

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Speaker 2: her take that business, that jewelry business, and turn it

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Speaker 2: into a pulpit. No, she wasn't called to a ministry

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