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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 2: Will God bless you today. It's a joy to come

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Speaker 2: into your homes. We love you, and if you're ever

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Speaker 2: in our area, please stop buying. Be a part of

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Speaker 2: one of our services. I promise you we'll make you

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Speaker 2: feel right at home. Thanks so much for tuning in,

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Speaker 2: and thank you again for coming out today. I like

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Speaker 2: to start with something funny, and I heard about this

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Speaker 2: cat and mouse that died on the same day and

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Speaker 2: went to heaven. After a few weeks, Peter saw the

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Speaker 2: mouse and asked him how he liked it. He said, Oh,

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Speaker 2: it's great, but it's so big. I'd love to get

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Speaker 2: some roller skates. Peter said, no problem, got him the skates.

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Speaker 2: A few weeks later, Peter ran into the cat ask

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Speaker 2: him how he liked it.

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Speaker 1: He said, it's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: And just when I thought it couldn't get any better,

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Speaker 2: I discovered the meals on wheels. Hold up your Bible.

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Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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

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

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about how something big is coming your way.

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Speaker 1: The God we serve is not a small God.

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Speaker 2: His plan for your life is not to reach one

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Speaker 2: level and get stuck and stay there for thirty.

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Speaker 1: Or forty years.

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Speaker 2: God's plan is to increase you, to open new doors,

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Speaker 2: to take your places that you've never imagined.

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Speaker 1: He has something big in your future.

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Speaker 2: He's already planned out big breaks, big opportunities, big ideas.

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Speaker 2: You may have seen God's goodness in the past. You

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Speaker 2: can say, like me, God's blessed you, God's promoted you, but.

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Speaker 1: You have not.

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Speaker 2: It's the surface of what God has in your future.

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Speaker 2: God is about to do a new thing. And what

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Speaker 2: I sense in my spirit is the new thing is

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Speaker 2: going to be far greater than you've ever seen before.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be bigger than you imagined. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be more rewarding than you thought possible.

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Speaker 2: Now you've got to come into agreement and say, yes, God,

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Speaker 2: this is from me today. I'm not gonna get stuck

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Speaker 2: where I am thinking that I've reached my limits. I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna go around with little dreams, little goals. I

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Speaker 2: know you're a big God, and you have something big

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Speaker 2: come in my way.

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Speaker 1: I know this man that works in law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: He's a police officer, and in his spare time, he

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Speaker 2: developed a small safety device. It's not an engineer, has

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Speaker 2: no formal training. All he had was an idea. He

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Speaker 2: it so much he got it patented. He went to

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Speaker 2: Their engineers were scratching their heads, saying, why didn't we

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Speaker 2: think of this? Was very simple, yet very effective. Long

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Speaker 2: story short, that safety company bought the rights to his

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Speaker 2: patent from him for eight million dollars, just one idea

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Speaker 2: that God had given him. He said, Joel, I was

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Speaker 2: just playing around. I never thought that it would take off.

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Speaker 2: That's the way God is in your future. He has

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Speaker 2: big breaks, big opportunities, big ideas. But some of you

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Speaker 2: today you're stuck in a rut, thinking that you've reached

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Speaker 1: You've seen your best days.

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Speaker 2: You could never rise higher, you could never accomplish your dreams. No,

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Speaker 2: you don't know what God has planned out for you.

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Speaker 2: Just because you don't see away doesn't mean that God

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Speaker 1: God has already lined up something big that can catapult

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Speaker 2: Isaiah fifty four to two says, enlarge the place of

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Speaker 2: Spare not lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. Notice the

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Speaker 2: words God uses in large lengthen, stretch forth.

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Speaker 1: What's God saying?

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Speaker 2: Get ready for more, make room for increase in larger thinking,

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Speaker 2: Say, when you think like this, then you will break forth.

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Speaker 2: But it implies if we don't in large, if we

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Speaker 2: these new levels. Some people have never once said, God,

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Speaker 2: help me to own my home free.

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Speaker 1: And clear with no monthly payment.

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Speaker 2: Our mind if we're not careful, go til tell Joel,

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Speaker 2: I could never pay my house off. It's gonna take

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Speaker 2: me thirty years. No, you're believing too small. Have a

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Speaker 2: bigger vision. We should pray for things that stretch our faith.

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Speaker 2: If you can accomplish all your goals, your dreams, in

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Speaker 2: your own ability, in your own strength, you don't really

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Speaker 2: need God's help. You need to believe for things that

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Speaker 2: are so big. You know it's gonna take God's favor.

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Speaker 2: God said in Psalm to Ape, ask of me, and

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Speaker 2: for big things. Pray bold prayers. Dare to say, God,

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Speaker 2: help me to not only own my home free and clear,

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Speaker 2: somebody else a new home. Our mind thinks impossible, Joel,

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Speaker 2: that could never happen for me.

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Speaker 1: Do you know where I work?

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Speaker 2: No, when you believe all things are possible, how about this, God,

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Speaker 2: income is right. Now well, Joel, now you're getting far out. Listen,

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Speaker 2: we serve a far out God. He has something big

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Speaker 2: in your future. I want you to get your hopes up,

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Speaker 2: go out each day expecting God to do something big

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Speaker 2: in your life. If you would have told me twelve

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Speaker 2: compact center where the rockets used to play, I would

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Speaker 2: have said, you're far out. But now I realize that's

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Speaker 2: the way God is. And if you will honor Him

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Speaker 2: one day you'll look back and say with me, God,

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Speaker 2: you've outdone yourself.

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Speaker 1: You've amazed me with your goodness.

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Speaker 2: There's a man in the scripture named Jabez. His name

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Speaker 2: means trouble, sorrow, heartache. We don't know a lot about Jabez,

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Speaker 2: but I can imagine he'd been through a lot of disappointments.

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Speaker 2: Life hadn't turned out the way he had hoped. But

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Speaker 2: enlarge my territory and to bless me. Indeed, he was saying,

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Speaker 2: in effect, I've been through a lot of disappointments. I've

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Speaker 2: had a lot of hurts and pain. But God, I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to get stuck here. I'm expecting your favor.

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Speaker 2: that word indeed means in great ways. The scripture simply

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Speaker 2: Have you ever said, God, bless me. Indeed, God, do

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Speaker 2: something big in my life. Friends, we have not because

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Speaker 2: we ask not. When you stretch your faith, when you enlarge, increase,

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Speaker 2: expand that's what allows God to do amazing things. But

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Speaker 2: sometimes we have such a limited view of God. We

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Speaker 2: act like we're inconveniencing God to believe for big things,

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Speaker 2: so we end up praying these small prayers.

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Speaker 1: God, if you'll just give me a little raise.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I can get a better place to live. God,

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Speaker 2: if you'll give me a few customers, maybe I can

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Speaker 2: make budget this month. God, if you'll give me a

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Speaker 2: little help, maybe my marriage will survive.

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Speaker 1: Now you're selling yourself short.

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Speaker 2: God is all powerful, He has unlimited resources.

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Speaker 1: You are not doing.

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Speaker 2: God a favor by being small minded. If you want

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Speaker 2: to make God happy, believe big, expect big, ask big.

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Speaker 2: God created the whole universe. He doesn't want us to

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Speaker 2: so large. But now scientists have discovered that there are

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Speaker 2: But the problem is if you think small and believe

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Speaker 1: In my life today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for big opportunities, big ideas, big breakthroughs. And Lord,

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Speaker 2: help me to be a big blessing to somebody else.

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Speaker 2: Think like God, think big, think expansive, think more than enough.

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Speaker 2: I heard a story about a professional golfer. He was

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Speaker 2: The man said, oh, please, don't send me anything. You've

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Speaker 2: been a very gracious host. I've had a great time.

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Speaker 2: But this king was very persistent. He wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: collected golf clubs. The king said fine. On the flight

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Speaker 1: He imagined it might be.

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Speaker 2: A gold plated club with his name engraved on it,

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Speaker 2: or maybe it would be a club studded with diamonds

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Speaker 2: When he got home every day, he'd hurry out to

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Speaker 2: About a month later, he got a certified letter in

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Speaker 2: the mail from the King of Saudi Arabia. He thought,

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Speaker 2: that's strange, where's my golf club? He opened it up,

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Speaker 2: much to his surprise, it was a deed to a

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Speaker 2: five hundred acre, eighteen hole golf club here in America. See,

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Speaker 2: kings think differently than most people. They think bigger. That's

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Speaker 1: He's the king of kings.

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Speaker 2: We think golf club. God thinks golf club. In other words,

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Speaker 2: God's dream for your life is so much bigger, so.

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Speaker 1: Much greater than you've ever imagined.

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Speaker 2: God doesn't want us to live small, to barely get by,

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Speaker 2: that you never knew you had. You'll see these explosive

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Speaker 1: He was one of seven children.

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Speaker 2: Not only his family, but all of his relatives and

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Speaker 2: There was so much sickness, so much disease, but no

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Speaker 1: This broke his heart.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't stand to see the sadness and the suffering

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Speaker 2: of his people. And God put a dream in his

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Speaker 2: heart to somehow build a hospital in that village there

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Speaker 2: in the Congo.

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Speaker 1: In the natural. It was impossible.

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Speaker 2: He was just as poor and underprivileged as the other

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Speaker 2: people in his village. But there was something different about

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Speaker 2: this young man. He knew he served a big God,

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Speaker 2: and he dared to pray bold prayers. He asked God

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Speaker 2: to help him build that hospital. Something began to happen.

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Speaker 2: He started to grow. He grew and grew six feet

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Speaker 2: He was so tall he started playing basketball on the

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Speaker 2: what they would call high school. How he got an

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Speaker 2: academic scholarship to Georgetown University in the States, a supernatural break.

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Speaker 1: It was unheard of.

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Speaker 2: He went there to become a doctor, to come back

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Speaker 2: and help his people. But during his second year, the

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Speaker 2: try out for the team. He not only made the team,

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Speaker 2: to play professional basketball and today you know him the

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Speaker 2: Kimba Mtumbo has become one of the great ballplayers of

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Speaker 2: attends our services when he's in town. A few years back,

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Speaker 2: Matumbo donated fifteen million dollars to get the hospital started,

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Speaker 2: and in two thousand and seven he and some other

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Speaker 2: basketball players dedicated the thirty million dollar hospital there in

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Speaker 2: his village in the Congo. Friends, if God did it

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Speaker 2: for him, he can do it for you and me.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask him. What is it that God has

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Speaker 2: Believing, stretching your faith? Don't let life contain you. Let

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Speaker 2: God increase you. He has something big in your future.

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Speaker 2: He's got big opportunities, big ideas, big breakthroughs. You may

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Speaker 2: it's going to come to pass much.

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Speaker 1: Greater than you ever imagine.

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Speaker 2: Get up every morning and say, God, I'm asking you

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Speaker 1: God bless me. Indeed, if you think this way, let

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Speaker 1: me encourage you. Something big is coming your way.

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