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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: We love you guys so much. Thank you for being here.

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Speaker 2: This is our year of acceleration. Let's believe that as

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Speaker 2: we go into this year of acceleration, that God is

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Speaker 2: going to do extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: Things in our life.

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Speaker 2: Let's don't limit God because of our own ability, because

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Speaker 2: of our resources, because we don't feel like we have what.

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Speaker 3: It takes to do something extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: See, God has designed you and created you to be special,

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Speaker 2: to be different. He's placed something on your life that

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Speaker 2: gives you the advantage. Too often we limit God because

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Speaker 2: we only look at ourself. We don't look at God.

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Speaker 2: We look at ourselfs. I've fallen into this trap before,

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Speaker 2: wanting to pray a big prayer, wanting to believe for

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Speaker 2: of faith because I look at myself and wonder, could

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Speaker 3: Could I really accomplish something?

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Speaker 2: Like that.

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Speaker 3: See, our victories.

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Speaker 2: Are not going to be won by our own strength.

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Speaker 2: Our victories are going to be accomplished by God's favor.

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Speaker 2: His gracious hand of favor on our life is what's

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Speaker 2: going to bring about the extraordinary in our life.

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Speaker 3: I think about.

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Speaker 2: Joseph, Moses, Nehemiah, Esther just to name a few. They

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Speaker 2: believed that they were anointed, and they believed they were

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Speaker 2: called by God to do great things.

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Speaker 3: Now in the natural. On paper, they didn't.

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Speaker 2: they didn't necessary barely come from the right family. But

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Speaker 2: they believed this one thing, that God had anointed them

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Speaker 2: to do something great. Think about Joseph she who's a

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Speaker 2: young boy doing great things, having an enjoyable life, when

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Speaker 2: he realized his brothers despised him so much that they

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Speaker 2: His brothers despised him so much they threw him in

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you something.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever heard yourself say, my boss doesn't like me.

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Speaker 2: encourages me. Have you ever heard yourself say something like that?

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Speaker 2: Maybe make up an excuse why you couldn't do something. Well,

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Speaker 2: Joseph was sold into slavery. He ended up come in

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Speaker 2: See through Joseph's ups and downs, he still believed he

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Speaker 2: had the anointing of God. And do you know, Joseph

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Speaker 2: He was the one that was running the show. How

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Speaker 2: could that have happened? How could that have happened? His

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Speaker 2: How did that happen?

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Speaker 2: You see, some people say this, our generation is never

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Speaker 2: This internet, these evil people, this generation will never make it.

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Speaker 3: Well, Moses was never intended to make it.

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Speaker 3: Moses tried to.

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Speaker 2: wondering in the wilderness for forty years. Forty years wondering

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Speaker 3: And got to the other side. What is that?

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Speaker 2: If you read that in the paper today, you'd say

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Speaker 3: That couldn't have happened.

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Speaker 2: Moses wasn't even supposed to make it to three years old.

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Speaker 3: He wasted forty years in the wilderness. How did that happen?

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Speaker 2: Nehemiah, he was a cutbearer in the king's house. He

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Speaker 3: He was a cutbearer.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have the resources, he didn't have the money,

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Speaker 2: not only granted him the time to take off to go,

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Speaker 2: And he was able to round up the mighty men

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Speaker 3: Did it in fifty two days. Fifty two days. It

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Speaker 3: was acceleration for Nehemiah. What was that esther? She was

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Speaker 3: What was that? It was the gracious hand of God's favor.

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Speaker 2: It was the gracious hand of God's favor in their lives.

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Speaker 2: And you too have the gracious hands of God's favor

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Speaker 3: Don't ever forget it.

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Speaker 2: When God breathed breath into you, he gave you more

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Speaker 3: He gave you his favor, his favor.

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Speaker 2: God is looking for men and women who will truly

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Speaker 2: Don't fall into the tripe of well, I don't have

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Speaker 2: Look at Almighty God and realize it's God's strength that's

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Speaker 2: going to bring these things to pass. It's his gracious

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Speaker 3: Esther did. Listen, you're a queen on the inside. You

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Speaker 3: have the royal crown on your head.

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Speaker 2: If you get up every morning and you say, God,

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Speaker 3: But I'm here to honor you.

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Speaker 2: I'm here to accept the free gift that you've given me,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna get me to exactly where I need to be.

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Speaker 2: You see, when you have an attitude like that, it

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Speaker 3: You have not wasted your life.

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Speaker 2: Moses thought he did, but God brought him back and

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Speaker 2: gave him a flourishing finish. No to day that you

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Speaker 2: can accomplish extraordinary things in your life. I know you're

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