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Speaker 5: An elderly preacher was dying.

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Speaker 6: He sent word for two of his members, an IRIS

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Speaker 6: The men were very moved to be with the minister

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Speaker 6: in his final moments. The lawyer finally asked, Preacher, what.

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Speaker 6: The preacher mustered up some strength and said, weekly Jesus

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Speaker 6: All right, hold up your bibles, let's say it together. Ready,

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Speaker 6: this is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 6: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 6: I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living

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Speaker 6: seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same, never, never, never,

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Speaker 6: I'll never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 6: You sound great as usual. We've been talking about being

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Speaker 6: God's created us to be, we've got to get out

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Speaker 5: Faith is just like a muscle.

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Speaker 6: The only way it grows is when it's stretched, is

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Speaker 6: And he'll bring opportunities across your path, or he'll deal

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Speaker 6: we should always be using our faith. A lot of

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Speaker 6: You have so much in you, There's so much more

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Speaker 6: few feathers, But you're gonna have to ask yourself, am

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Speaker 6: Now I know when the Compact Center became available our

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Speaker 6: my father always told how he didn't feel like he

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Speaker 6: we're moving the church. After all, we'd been here at

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Speaker 5: It'd been very easy to just play it safe and

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Speaker 6: I finally decided I was gonna take that step of

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Speaker 5: Do what God had put in my heart.

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Speaker 6: And the first weekend that I announced it to the church,

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Speaker 6: I can probably say that about ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 5: He said, Joel, you're making a big mistake.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 6: Even your father said he wouldn't move the church, and

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Speaker 6: now we're just selling out to go across town. I

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Speaker 6: remember one man in particular. He came up to me

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Speaker 6: He said, Joel, I hate to tell you this, but

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Speaker 6: answered prayer. I got on on my knees. I said, God,

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Speaker 6: You know as well as I do. God's gonna have

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Speaker 6: in God's perfect will. You'll be stretched. You won't be

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Speaker 6: It's just easier to say right where I am. In

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Speaker 6: other words, I don't want to have to stretch to

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Speaker 5: Do something out of the norm.

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Speaker 6: Take her breakfast in bed in the morning, rub her

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Speaker 6: feet at nine.

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Speaker 5: Bring her home flowers for no reason at all.

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Speaker 6: Well, you say, Joel, that sounds like a waste of

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Speaker 6: money to me. But listen, you need to stretch your faith,

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Speaker 6: you ow stingy thing.

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Speaker 5: Ladies. I said it so you wouldn't have to.

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Speaker 6: One time, a few years ago, I mentioned this in

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Speaker 6: one of my sermons, and the next morning, bright and early,

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Speaker 6: our alarm clock went off and Victoria.

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Speaker 5: Sat straight up in bed. I looked over at her.

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Speaker 6: And she's smiling real big, and I thought, what's going on.

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Speaker 6: She smiled and she said, I like my eggs scrambled.

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Speaker 6: I thought I was talking to them, not to you,

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Speaker 6: but some of you today. You need to make a

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Speaker 6: decision that you're gonna stretch yourself and.

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Speaker 5: Just smile more often. Are you gonna.

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Speaker 6: Stretch yourself and have a better attitude. You're gonna be kinder,

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Speaker 6: You're gonna be more caring. You're gonna wait there at

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Speaker 6: the door for ten seconds and hold it open for

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Speaker 6: the people behind you instead of just busting on through.

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Speaker 5: When you do that, you're sowing a seed.

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Speaker 6: And the whole principle of the Bible is what you sew.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna rip.

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Speaker 6: And if you don't like what you're reaping today, you've

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Speaker 6: got to change what you're sewing.

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Speaker 5: And I dare you to give up something.

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Speaker 6: For God and just see what happens. Instead of always

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Speaker 6: praying for your needs, pray for somebody else's needs. Instead

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Speaker 6: of going out to eat one night, save that money

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Speaker 6: and give it to that friend that's struggling, or instead

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Speaker 6: of always being negative and critical toward people. Why don't

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Speaker 6: you change your attitude and start seeing the best in them,

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Speaker 6: start giving them a little room, start overlooking their faults.

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Speaker 6: You'll be amazed at what will happen in your life

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Speaker 6: if you will dare just do something out of your

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Speaker 6: normal routine that honors God in a greater way. I

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Speaker 6: remember something Victorian I did years ago when we first

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Speaker 6: got married. Victoria worked at her family's jewelry store here

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Speaker 6: in town.

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Speaker 5: She'd been there for a long time.

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Speaker 6: But as we begin to travel with my father all

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Speaker 6: over the world, we got very busy, and eventually she

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Speaker 6: had to leave that position. And here we were a

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Speaker 6: young couple, and we'd stepped out and bought a town

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Speaker 6: home and had.

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Speaker 5: Several other obligations.

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Speaker 6: But we made a decision early on when she's left

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Speaker 6: same amount of money. We decided we were going to

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Speaker 6: stretch ourselves and continue to tithe our income, just as

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Speaker 6: if she were still working. In other words, we sowed

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Speaker 6: an extraordinary seed. We did something out of the norm

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Speaker 6: that made us stretch ourselves. And of course it had

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Speaker 6: been okay to cut back our giving. Bible talks about

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Speaker 6: the tithe is the first ten percent of our income,

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Speaker 6: and we could have easily justified it, but we wanted

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Speaker 6: to sow an uncommon, unusual seed. And we did that

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Speaker 6: month after month, year after year. And I can't even

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Speaker 6: begin to tell you in all the ways that God

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Speaker 6: blessed us. When we went to sell that town home

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Speaker 6: a couple of years later, we sold it for nearly

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Speaker 6: twice what we had bought it for. Next piece of property.

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Speaker 6: God supernaturally blessed.

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Speaker 5: Us on and on.

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Speaker 6: All these unusual, uncommon things began to happen to us,

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Speaker 6: And I know it was in part because we kept

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Speaker 6: stretching ourselves and just sowing those extraordinary seeds.

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Speaker 5: Talking about just money.

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Speaker 6: You can sow an extraordinary seed of your time. Instead

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Speaker 6: of just rushing home from work, Why don't you stop

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Speaker 6: by the hospital and visit that friend that's not feeling well,

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Speaker 6: Or why don't you go over to that neighbor's house

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Speaker 6: it's kind of been down and Moe's lawn for him.

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Speaker 5: That's an uncommon seed.

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Speaker 6: Instead of just running into the office every morning, won't

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Speaker 6: you take five minutes and see how the security guard's

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Speaker 6: doing out front, Or why don't you go encourage that

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Speaker 6: coworker that's really been struggling. See, you can sow an

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Speaker 6: extraordinary seed of time, a seed of kindness, a seat

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Speaker 6: of encouragement. When you get out of your routine and

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Speaker 6: you start doing the extraordinary, you're putting yourself in a position.

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Speaker 5: To receive the extraordinary.

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Speaker 6: In the Book of Second Kings, chapter four, there's a

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Speaker 6: story about a very poor widow. She's just lost her

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Speaker 6: husband and he's left her an incredible debt that she's

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Speaker 6: not able to pay, and now the creditors are on

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Speaker 6: their way to her home to take her two sons

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Speaker 6: as payment for that debt.

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Speaker 5: That's what they did back in those days.

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Speaker 6: Well, evidently Elisha was a friend of the family because

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Speaker 6: he showed up during this time of crisis, and she

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Speaker 6: began to tell him the problem and how serious the

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Speaker 6: situation was. And Elisha asked her, they're in verse four,

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Speaker 6: what do you have in the house? In other words,

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Speaker 6: he was saying, do you have anything you can pay

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Speaker 6: them back with? Do you have any jewelry, do you

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Speaker 6: have any furniture? You have anything at all? She said, no, Elisha,

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Speaker 6: all we have is this one pot of oil. He said, okay,

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Speaker 6: here's what you need to do. You need to go

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Speaker 6: out to all of your neighbors and borrow every empty container,

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Speaker 6: every empty vessel that you can find. And so she

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Speaker 6: went out door to door and she began to gather

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Speaker 6: up all these empty containers. Notice she's doing something out

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Speaker 6: of the norm. She's doing something uncommon. She had to

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Speaker 6: get out of her comfort zone, don't you know. Some

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Speaker 6: of those neighbors ask her, why do you need this?

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Speaker 6: You're going to have a big party tonight. What's going on?

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Speaker 6: She said, no, I'm just doing what God told me

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Speaker 6: to do. I'm sure they looked at her like her

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Speaker 6: elevator didn't go all the way up. Has God ever

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Speaker 6: asked you to do something that, in the natural doesn't

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Speaker 6: make sense, like apologize to somebody even though it wasn't

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Speaker 6: your fault, or give somebody some money. Yet you know

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Speaker 6: you need it more than they do. Listen, do it anyway.

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Speaker 6: God's ways are not our ways. When you sow an

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Speaker 6: extraordinary seed, you're going to reap an extraordinary harvest. Well,

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Speaker 6: she got these vessels and containers all back to her

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Speaker 6: house and.

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Speaker 5: She said, okay, Elisha, now what he said.

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Speaker 6: Now you need to take the container that you have

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Speaker 6: and pour the oil into one of those empty containers. Again,

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Speaker 6: it didn't seem to make any sense, but she did

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Speaker 6: it anyway. And she noticed once she got the first

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Speaker 6: container full, she still had some leftover in her original container,

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Speaker 6: and so she poured it into the next one and

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Speaker 6: filled it up. And then she did it again and

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Speaker 6: again and again. God was supernaturally multiplying the oil as she.

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Speaker 5: Was pouring it.

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Speaker 6: And when it was all said and done, she had

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Speaker 6: every one of those containers full to the top.

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Speaker 5: And Elishah said to her in verse.

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Speaker 6: Seven, now go sell the oil, and you can pay

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Speaker 6: off all of your debts.

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Speaker 5: And not only that, you can live off the money

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Speaker 5: that's left over. Bringe.

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Speaker 6: When you step out and you do the extraordinary, you

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Speaker 6: sow an uncommon seed.

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Speaker 5: God will meet all your needs in abundance.

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Speaker 6: You won't have enough to just barely get by. You

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Speaker 6: will have plenty left over as well. So let me

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Speaker 6: challenge you again to get out of your routine. Dare

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Speaker 6: to step out of that comfort zone, sow some extraordinary seeds. Remember,

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Speaker 6: if we keep doing the same thing the same way,

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Speaker 6: all we can expect are the same results. Why don't

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Speaker 6: you make a decision with me that at least in

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Speaker 6: one area of your life, you're gonna do something out

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Speaker 6: of your normal routine that honors God.

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Speaker 5: In a greater way. I don't know. Maybe you're gonna get.

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Speaker 6: Up earlier and spend more time with God. Maybe you're

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Speaker 6: gonna forgive somebody that you haven't been willing to forgive.

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Speaker 6: Maybe you're gonna have a better attitude, and you're just

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Speaker 6: gonna step out in faith. But I challenge you, at

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Speaker 6: least in one area for a month or so, you

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Speaker 6: do do something out of your normal routine, and you

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Speaker 6: see if you're not amazed at what God will do.

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Speaker 6: God wants to do more than we can ask or think.

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Speaker 6: But I'm convinced we have to give him permission by

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Speaker 6: sowing those uncommon sins. So if you'll do your part

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Speaker 6: today and press beyond the norm, be willing to take

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Speaker 6: a few risks, quit worrying about what people are gonna think.

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Speaker 6: If you'll do your part, God do his part, He'll

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Speaker 6: bless you in uncommon, unusual ways, and you'll experience the

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Speaker 6: victories that He has in story.

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Speaker 5: Amen, do you receive that today?

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