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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jorlan Victorium.

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: We come each week with good news.

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Speaker 2: I know that God rewards the people that seek after him,

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Speaker 2: and I believe that's you. Or you wouldn't have tuned

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Speaker 2: in today, or you guys wouldn't be here. But we

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Speaker 2: just welcome you today. I hope you'll come back. If

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Speaker 2: you're ever in the Houston area, stop by and see us.

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Speaker 2: We give you a personal invitation. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 2: make you feel right at home. But thanks for joining

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Speaker 2: us today. I'd like to start each week with something

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Speaker 2: kind of funny, and I heard about this man. He

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Speaker 2: was on vacation with his family in Jerusalem and.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly his mother in law died.

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Speaker 2: He went to make arrangements to get the body back home.

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Speaker 2: The consulate told him it would cost five thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: to have it shipped, but only one hundred dollars to

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Speaker 2: have it buried there in Jerusalem. After deep thought, he

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Speaker 2: told the consulate he wanted to have the body shipped

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Speaker 2: back home. The consulate said, well, you must have really

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Speaker 2: loved your mother in law. He said, no, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: necessarily that. I just remember a time many years ago

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Speaker 2: where they buried somebody here and on the third day

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Speaker 2: he arose, and.

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Speaker 1: I can't take that chance.

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Speaker 2: All right, on your bibles out, say it like you

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Speaker 2: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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

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

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Speaker 2: I will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. I will

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Speaker 2: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about not getting

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Speaker 2: stagnant in life. It's so easy to get stuck in

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Speaker 2: a rut to where we're not growing, we're not improving,

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Speaker 2: We've gotten comfortable and we just exc the status quo.

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Speaker 2: We're not happy in our marriage, but at least we're

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Speaker 2: still together.

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Speaker 1: We've struggled with our weight for years, but it's just

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Speaker 1: too hard. It's not worth it.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe at one time we were determined to break

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Speaker 2: bad habits, we were determined to overcome addictions, but now

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Speaker 2: it's easier to just accept it. I've heard people say

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Speaker 2: I've had this sickness my whole lifetime. I'll probably die

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Speaker 2: with it gone as far in my career as I

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Speaker 1: I just can't control my temper.

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Speaker 2: Too often we settle for things that are far less

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Speaker 2: than God's best. But if we're going to become all

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Speaker 2: that God's created us to be, we've better learn to

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Speaker 2: keep pressing forward in life.

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Speaker 1: We've got to draw.

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Speaker 2: The line in the sand and say no, I'm not

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Speaker 2: to live with these addictions. I'm not gonna make excuses

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Speaker 2: for the way I treat people. I'm not gonna get

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Speaker 2: myself up and start pressing forward. I'm gonna start believing

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Speaker 2: for things and our attitude should be. I'm coming up higher.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to become all that God's created me to be.

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Speaker 2: The Scripture says in Proverbs that the path of the

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Speaker 1: That means we should be increasing.

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Speaker 2: We should be seeing more of God's blessings and favor

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Speaker 2: in our lives. We should be displaying more of his character,

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Speaker 2: more kindness, more compassion, more patience. Our attitude this year

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Speaker 2: should be better than it was last year. But some

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Speaker 2: of you are stuck in a rut. You're not growing,

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Speaker 2: you're not improving. You've just settled where you are, and

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Speaker 2: it's easy to try to justify it. Well, everybody in

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Speaker 2: my family is like this, Joel, I can't help it.

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Speaker 2: My mother was depressed. That's why I'm kind of depressed.

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Speaker 2: here in Ezekiel eighteen, verse two, it says, what do

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Speaker 2: As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you

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Speaker 2: will no longer quote this. What's happening here is this

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Speaker 2: And evidently they'd been thinking this way for a long time,

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Speaker 2: because God showed up and said, hey, stop saying that.

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Speaker 2: Why are you using your relatives as an excuse. Why

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Speaker 2: bondages of the past. In other words, your relatives may

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Speaker 2: have eaten the sour grapes, your parents may have made

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Speaker 2: some poor choices in life. Maybe you look back in

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Speaker 2: your bloodline and you see all kinds of defeat and

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Speaker 2: mediocrity that goes back for generations. But God is saying

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Speaker 2: have given you some disadvantages. Yes it may have held

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Speaker 2: new day. And if you'll get rid of the wrong

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Speaker 2: mindsets and start pressing forward, then all the forces of

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Speaker 2: created you to be. Now, I hear too many people

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Speaker 2: today saying things like, well, everybody in my family gets divorced.

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Speaker 2: My mother and dad they argued and fought all the time.

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Speaker 2: the time. Or I'm negative, judgmental, critical because the environment

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Speaker 2: scripture says you are a new creation. The old has

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Speaker 2: been passed away. And we hear a lot about generational

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Speaker 2: curses today, and they are real. Things can be passed down.

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Speaker 2: Medical science tells us sicknesses and diseases, even addictions and

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Speaker 2: are genetics, things can be hereditary. But in the spiritual

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Speaker 2: long as the Sovereign Lord is alive and well in

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Speaker 2: your heart, you don't have to eat the sour grapes.

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Speaker 2: You've been redeemed. You're not under the curse anymore. You're

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Speaker 2: under the blessing. The old has passed away. When you

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Speaker 2: came to Christ, you stepped into a new bloodline. And

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Speaker 2: the good news is there's no defeat in this new

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Speaker 2: There are no addictions, no sickness, no mediocrity.

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Speaker 1: Get a vision for who you are.

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Speaker 2: You are a child of the Most High God. You

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Speaker 2: have His royal blood flowing through your veins. There is

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Speaker 2: nothing in life that you cannot overcome. There is no obstacle,

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Speaker 2: no mediocrity, no addiction, no bad habit, no sickness. You

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Speaker 2: you to fulfill your God given destiny. But if this

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Speaker 2: start acting life. You've got to get rid of that weak,

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Speaker 2: as you're sitting around in self pity, blaming the past,

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Speaker 2: blaming your parents, blaming your circumstances. Now quit playing the

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Speaker 1: That are holding you back.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to the young men the other day.

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Speaker 2: He said, Joel, I know I'm running my marriage. I'm rude,

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Speaker 2: about it the most is I'm acting just like my father.

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Speaker 2: Growing up, my dad treated my mother so rude, so disrespectfully,

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Speaker 2: believe it, I've become just like him. That's what happens

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Speaker 2: the next. I told him what I'm telling you. You

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Speaker 2: don't have to eat the sour grapes. You're more than

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Speaker 2: a conquer You're an overcomer. But you've got to dig

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Speaker 2: never change what you tolerate. You've got to get fed

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Speaker 2: up with it and say, you know what, I'm drawing

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Speaker 2: this anymore. I'm gonna make changes. I'm gonna treat my

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Speaker 2: And if you will do your part, be disciplined to

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Speaker 2: that's trying to hold you back. Now, I want to

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Speaker 2: things that are less than God's best. Don't keep passing

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Speaker 2: the junk down. Today can be a new beginning. Today

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Speaker 2: can be a turning point in your life. Even with sicknesses,

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Speaker 2: we know in the natural how things like heart disease, diabetes,

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Speaker 2: And you can't just sit back and accept that complacency

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Speaker 2: will always keep you in mediococy. Now, I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: grandfather may have died from cancer. My father may have

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Speaker 2: died from that, but you know what, it's a new day.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to eat the grapes.

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Speaker 2: The buck is going to stop with me. Medical science

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Speaker 2: even tells us people that have a feisty spirit, people

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Speaker 2: that have an overcome and determined attitude, they recover quicker

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Speaker 2: than people that just sit back and accept things. I

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Speaker 2: heard somebody say, well, my arthritis has flared up on me.

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Speaker 2: My depression was really bad last week. Listen, you've got

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Speaker 2: to quit taking ownership of that junk. It's not your arthritis,

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Speaker 2: not your sickness, it's not your depression. You are free,

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Speaker 2: you are whole. You are a new creature of victor

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Speaker 2: and not a victim. Really, a better way to look

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Speaker 2: at it is you're not a sick person trying to

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Speaker 2: get well. You're a well person standing against sickness. Now,

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Speaker 2: our attitude should be I walk in divine health. Sickness

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Speaker 2: It didn't come to stay, it came to pass. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 2: what if I have to fight this sickness my whole lifetime. Listen,

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Speaker 2: I'd rather stand against it every day and know that

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Speaker 1: And we all have.

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Speaker 2: something is stirring on the inside. I feel like I

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Speaker 2: should be teaching people God's word, mentoring them, training them.

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Speaker 2: But I've never done that. I don't know if i'd

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Speaker 2: be good at it. I don't know if I have

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Speaker 2: what it takes. But I just can't get away from it.

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Speaker 2: I told him what I'm telling you, quit looking at

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Speaker 2: what you don't have. Take the step of faith, and

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Speaker 2: you'll find out what you do have. I know I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be standing up here today if I didn't do

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Speaker 2: just what I'm asking you to do. Most of you

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Speaker 2: know my story how my father tried to get me

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Speaker 2: up here at thousands of times to minister. But listen,

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Speaker 2: I'd never do it. I'd rather clean my attic in

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Speaker 2: the heat of the summer than I've had to get

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Speaker 2: up in front of people. But when Daddy went to

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Speaker 2: be with the Lord right down in here, I knew that.

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Speaker 1: I knew that I was.

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Speaker 2: Supposed to step up and pasture this church. And I said, God,

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Speaker 2: I'm not looking at what I don't have. I don't

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Speaker 2: have a seminary education, I don't have a lot of

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Speaker 2: formal training.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of experience. I'd only spoken one time. I said God,

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Speaker 2: I'm not looking at that. I'm looking at what you

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Speaker 2: do have. I know in my weakness, you will show

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Speaker 2: up the strongest. And so I took that step of

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Speaker 2: faith seven and a half years ago, and God's taking

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Speaker 2: me places that I've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 1: He'll do the same thing for every one of you.

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Speaker 1: Don't get stagnant.

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Speaker 2: Don't get complacent in your marriage, in your attitude, in

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Speaker 2: your career.

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Speaker 1: And I say this respectfully, but you can't dwell on.

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Speaker 2: What all the experts are saying about you. You can't

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Speaker 2: sit around at home all day long thinking about how.

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Speaker 1: Impossible your situation is. Turn it over to God.

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Speaker 2: With men, it may be impossible, but with God, all

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Speaker 2: things are possible.

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Speaker 1: I think about a little bumblebee.

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Speaker 2: All the laws of physics say a bumblebee cannot fly.

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Speaker 2: Its body is too heavy for its wings. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: have a big enough wings span to support the weight

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Speaker 2: of the body. And for years, scientists, engineers, and experts

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Speaker 2: in the field of aerodynamics they have studied the bumblebee

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Speaker 2: and their final conclusion is it should not be able

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Speaker 2: to fly. But do you know why the bumblebee flies?

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Speaker 2: Because God told the bumblebee to fly. And God is

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Speaker 2: a supernatural god. He's not limited to the laws of nature.

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Speaker 2: He can do what men can't do. And why don't

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Speaker 2: you quit focusing on how big your problems are and

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Speaker 2: start focusing on how big your God is. He created

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Speaker 2: the whole universe. There's nothing too difficult for him. And

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Speaker 2: when God puts a dream in your heart.

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Speaker 1: In it's natural.

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Speaker 2: It may look impossible. Every voice may tell you it's

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Speaker 2: never going to happen. You're never gonna get well, you're

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Speaker 2: never gonna break that addiction, you're never gonna accompliss your dreams.

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Speaker 2: But if you can just learn to shake that junk

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Speaker 2: off and stay in faith, get up every day expecting

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Speaker 2: good things, then just like that bumblebee, you will defy

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Speaker 2: the odds and see it come to pass. A couple

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Speaker 2: of months ago, I was talking to a friend. He's

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Speaker 2: a famous tightrope walker. He comes from seven generations of

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Speaker 2: entertainers there in the circus, and I ask him, what's

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Speaker 2: the key to walking on the tightrope?

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Speaker 1: I mean, he makes it look so easy, he.

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Speaker 2: Said, Joel, the secret is you always have to keep

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Speaker 2: your eyes fixed on where you're going. You can never

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Speaker 2: look down, he said. If you look down, where your

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Speaker 2: head goes, your body will go. There's a good chance

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Speaker 2: you're going to fall. So you always have to keep

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Speaker 2: your eyes focused on where you want to be. I thought,

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Speaker 2: that's the same principle in life. Some people are always

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Speaker 2: looking back, focused on their hurts and pains, how they

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Speaker 2: were raised, blaming their parents. Other people are just focused

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Speaker 2: on where they are right now in self pity, been

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Speaker 2: through disappointments.

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Speaker 1: Life's not fair. But the key to not getting.

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Speaker 2: Stagnant is you have to stay focused on where you

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Speaker 2: want to be. In other words, dream big dreams. Let

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Speaker 2: the past be the past. Don't stay focused on where

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Speaker 2: you are. Look out through your eyes of faith and

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Speaker 2: see yourself rising higher. Accomplish in your dreams, breaking bad habits,

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Speaker 2: fulfilling your destiny. Friends, you can live in victory. You

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Speaker 2: can become all God's created you to be. Stir your

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Speaker 2: faith up today. Don't settle for mediocrity, don't settle for

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Speaker 2: the status quo. Let this day be a time of

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Speaker 2: new beginnings. Every one of us can come up higher.

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Speaker 2: And if you ask God, he will show you areas

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Speaker 2: that are holding you back. Wrong mindsets, fear of failure, complacency,

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Speaker 2: Be willing to change, don't make excuses.

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Speaker 1: Remember you don't have to eat the sour grapes.

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Speaker 2: As long as the Sovereign Lord is alive in you,

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Speaker 2: good things are in store. You're not under the curse,

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Speaker 2: You're under the blessing. The best is still yet to

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Speaker 2: come if you'll just shake off the complacency and start

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Speaker 2: pressing forward in life, stepping out of your comfort.

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Speaker 1: Zone, stretching yourself.

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Speaker 2: I know this God will open up doors for you

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Speaker 2: that no man can shut. You'll break bondages that have

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Speaker 2: held you back for years, and you'll live the life

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Speaker 2: of victory he has in store.

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Speaker 1: Amen, dear, receive it. I know you do.

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: 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 1: He's going to take your places you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you

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Speaker 3: feel like you're stumbling around in the dark. Things are

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Speaker 3: so bad you would need a miracle to change your situation.

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Speaker 3: But as a miracle even possible.

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Speaker 2: We all face situations where we don't see a way out.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what

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Speaker 1: we're believing.

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Speaker 2: For that's how we felt in nineteen eighty one, my

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Speaker 2: mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a few

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Speaker 2: weeks to live. Nothing could be done medically speaking, but

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Speaker 2: she chose to believe.

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Speaker 1: That God is a miracle worker.

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Speaker 2: Today, forty three years later, by the grace of God,

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Speaker 2: she's still healthy and strong.

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful to be alive.

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Speaker 2: I'm ninety years young. I thank God every day that

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Speaker 2: he still does miracles.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to send you by new book. It's called

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Speaker 4: Miracles Happen. It's filled with powerful stories of miracles from

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Speaker 4: the Scripture and real life stories of people that have

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Speaker 4: seen the hand of God. It'll help build your faith

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Speaker 4: so you can believe what seems impossible.

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Speaker 1: God did it for my mother. Yes, He'll do it

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and Victoria,

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Speaker 3: we'd like to send you this powerful book, Miracles Happen

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Speaker 3: your journey to supernatural breakthrough. This new book details thirty

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Speaker 3: different miracles from the Word of God, and each one

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Speaker 3: comes with an encouragement and application to your own life.

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Speaker 3: God has miracles stored up for you, healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 2: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power.

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Speaker 2: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 2: see the hand of God do supernatural things in your life.

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Speaker 2: Victory and I are standing in faith with you. We

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Speaker 2: pray for you every day. We appreciate your prayer and support.

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Speaker 2: Your generosity is impacting so many lives. Remember you can

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Speaker 2: watch the services live online every Sunday morning, download our

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Speaker 2: daily podcast, watch on YouTube the new Joelosting netw listen

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Speaker 2: on serious XM until we meet again.

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Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of Miracles Happen your

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Speaker 3: journey to Supernatural breakthrough today. Visit Joelostein dot com or

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