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Speaker 5: for coming out. And I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 5: and I heard about these two men named Archie and Jack.

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Speaker 5: They argued their whole life as to whether Jesus was

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Speaker 5: white or whether he was black. Archie was certain he

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Speaker 5: As fate would have it, they died on the same day.

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Speaker 5: Rushed to the pearly gates, said, Saint Peter, please tell us.

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Speaker 5: We've been debating our whole life. Is Jesus white or

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Speaker 5: Buenos Dias, hold up your bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 5: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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

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Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about being a

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Speaker 5: rain maker. Rain in the scripture is symbolic of blessings,

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Speaker 5: favor increase. One place talks about how we should be

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Speaker 5: way God designed us to flourish even in tough times.

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Speaker 5: But too many people are in a dry season, they

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Speaker 5: haven't had a good break in years. They're stagnant in

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Speaker 5: easy to settle there think well, this is as good

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Speaker 5: But there is a way you can put an end

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Speaker 5: to that drought. There's something you can do to cause

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Speaker 5: it to rain. And it's interesting how a cloud forms.

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Speaker 5: The sun shines down on water and it produces an

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Speaker 5: can create rain in our own life. The way we

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Speaker 5: can put an end to a drought is through our praise.

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Speaker 5: When we go around thanking God for his goodness, talking

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Speaker 5: the praises go up, the blessings come back down. Now,

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Speaker 5: sending up. Here's the principle, no praise, no rain, limited praise,

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Speaker 5: to stay full of praise everywhere you go. Under your breath,

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Speaker 5: What's happening your cloud is getting a little bit fuller

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Speaker 5: when you see your children. Lord, thank you for these

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Speaker 5: gifts that you bless me with driving to work, not

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Speaker 5: complaining about the traffic. I can't stand my job. Gasoline

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Speaker 5: grateful to be alive. When you live like that, you

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Speaker 5: time before your cloud will open up and unload a

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Speaker 5: downpour of God's favor. Abundant praise will produce abundant rain.

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Speaker 5: praise on Sunday, Joel, I went to church. I sang

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Speaker 5: a big sacrifice. That's great. God sees your efforts. But

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Speaker 5: here's the problem with only having Sunday praise on Monday.

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Speaker 5: need wisdom, God says to the angel, he needs some rain.

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Speaker 5: Now it's completely empty. Friends, you got to do your

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Speaker 5: Instead of thinking about what's wrong, Thank God for what's right.

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Speaker 5: Lord, thank you that you're turning it around. Thank you

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Speaker 5: that you're bigger than this problem. Thank you that you've

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Speaker 5: your favor. Vapors went up at the mall. You find

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Speaker 5: that's not feeling well after you pray for them. Under

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Speaker 5: You've got to develop this habit of constantly sending up

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Speaker 5: Lord for our beautiful building. He had heard it so

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Speaker 5: many times it is become ingrained in him. What has

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Speaker 5: When your baby was born, you were on cloud nine.

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Speaker 5: You thank God every day for a month. Now he's sixteen,

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Speaker 5: Then I'll give God praise. Now that's backwards. Praise is

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Speaker 5: turn it around. In Matthew fourteen, Jesus had been teaching

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Speaker 5: fifteen thousand people. But what Jesus did next was extremely significant.

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Speaker 5: Verse nineteen says he took the five loaves and the

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Speaker 5: Here's the principle. Until you're grateful for what's not enough,

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Speaker 5: you won't see the multiple. When Joel, I can't thank

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Speaker 5: God for my job. I don't like it. The people

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Speaker 5: problem with that approach is in three more years, you're

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Speaker 5: addiction has been with you since high school. Dare to say, Lord,

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Speaker 5: I am free. Maybe somebody did you wrong, walked out

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Speaker 5: send those vapors up. Dare to say, God, you said

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Speaker 5: want to thank you Lord. My best days are still

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Speaker 5: mouth wide. That's what allows God to do great things.

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Speaker 5: Don't limit him with little praise, little prayer, little dreams.

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Speaker 5: Thank him for the greatness of his power. Thank him

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Speaker 5: for the fullness of your destiny. Thank him for new levels.

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Speaker 5: When you brag on the goodness of God, he'll do

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Speaker 5: We've all heard little children before bragging on their fathers,

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Speaker 5: saying things like, my dad's stronger than your dad, my

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Speaker 5: dad can run faster than your dad. Well, my dad's

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Speaker 5: so dramatic, so mean. I thought he's gonna come over

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Speaker 5: to be with our heavenly father. Look at that obstacle,

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Speaker 5: that addiction, that sickness. Announce to it. My Father can

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Speaker 5: vapors bragging on the greatness of God. This is what

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Speaker 5: David did when he faced Goliath. He said, Goliath, you

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Speaker 5: God of Israel. When your mouth is open wide, not

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Speaker 5: talking about how big the problem is, but talking about

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Speaker 5: how big your God is, you better get your umbrella.

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Speaker 5: That's when God will unload a downpour of his favor.

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Speaker 5: You will defeat giants that are much bigger. You will

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Speaker 5: overcome obstacles that look insurmountable. What kind of vapors are

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Speaker 5: Break this addiction. No, start sending up these vapors of praise.

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Speaker 5: Start thanking God for his goodness. Don't wait for everything

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Speaker 5: all through the day. Under your breath this attitude of praise.

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Speaker 5: If you will do this, you will become a rain

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