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Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 5: your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to

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Speaker 5: Stadium, fantastic people, victories and not victum. Hold up your Bible,

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Speaker 5: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says.

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

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Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Tonight I will be

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Speaker 5: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 5: the same. Never, never, never, I'll never be the same.

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 5: to you tonight about how God will finish what he started.

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Speaker 5: The moment God put a dream in your heart, the

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Speaker 5: moment the promise took root, God not only started it,

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Speaker 5: but he set a completion date. God is called the

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Speaker 5: author and the finisher of our faith. God wouldn't have

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Speaker 5: given you the dream, The promise wouldn't have come alive

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Speaker 3: A plan to bring it to pass.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't matter how long it's been or how impossible it looks.

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Speaker 5: too many opportunities. It's never going to happen. No, God

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Speaker 5: I've already set the completion day, and if you will

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Speaker 5: But some of you tonight you've lost your fire. At

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Speaker 5: one time, you believed you could do something great. You

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Speaker 5: There are too many promises that have not come to

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Speaker 5: People can't stop it. Bad breaks can't stop it, sickness

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Speaker 5: He's put seeds of greatness on the inside. He's whispered

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Speaker 3: He will finish what he started.

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Speaker 5: I met a one hundred and six year old man

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Speaker 3: But I want you to have this new attitude.

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Speaker 3: This is what David did.

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Speaker 5: He was anointed to be king at seventeen years of age,

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Speaker 3: Spoken over him. David says, you know what, You're right.

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Speaker 5: Our God is a faithful god. It may be taking

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Speaker 5: in your life. A good friend of mine is Jeff Hackelman.

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Speaker 5: When we think it's too late, it could never happen.

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Speaker 5: I've missed too many opportunities. Listen, God still has a

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Speaker 5: way to bring your dreams to pass. There's a man

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Speaker 5: in the scripture by the name of Zerubabel. He had

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Speaker 5: a dream to rebuild the temple. The whole city had

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Speaker 5: been destroyed. He came back and laid the foundation, but

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Speaker 3: The city weren't for him. They didn't want the temple rebuilt.

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Speaker 5: They went to the judge and he issued an order

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Speaker 3: For ten years, no work was done.

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Speaker 5: I can imagine Zeruba Bell week after week going by

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Speaker 5: the property in seeing the empty foundation, all the supplies

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Speaker 3: It's like rubbing salt on the wound. Sure, he thought, God,

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Speaker 3: I started off good, had big dreams.

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Speaker 5: These people came against me, had so much opposition. He's down, discouraged,

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Speaker 5: thinking that it could never happen. But remember, God never

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Speaker 5: starts something that he can't finish. One day a prophet

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Speaker 5: by the name of Zachariah showed up, said, Zaruba bel

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Speaker 5: God sent me all this way to give you two

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Speaker 5: words begin again. Faith shot up in his heart. He said,

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Speaker 5: you mean God can still bring it to pass. Do

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Speaker 5: you realize it's been ten years? Do you know how

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Speaker 5: many people are against me. Do you really think that

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Speaker 5: I can still do it? Zachariah said, I don't think

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Speaker 5: you can do it. I know you can do it,

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Speaker 5: and God says, get started. God is saying the same

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Speaker 5: thing to each one of us. Begin again, get your

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Speaker 5: dreams back, get your hopes up. God has put some

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Speaker 5: kind of promise in your heart.

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Speaker 3: Like him. Maybe it's been years.

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Speaker 5: You tried, it didn't work out, you had some setbacks.

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Speaker 5: God is saying it's time to start dreaming again, start

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Speaker 5: believing again, start praying again, start expecting again. Some of

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Speaker 5: you wanted to buy that new house. You didn't qualify

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Speaker 5: for it. It didn't work out. That was ten years ago.

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Speaker 5: God says, begin again. Some of you, at one time

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Speaker 5: you knew you could break that addiction, but it didn't happen.

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Speaker 5: Now you've gotten comfortable, God is saying, begin again. Some

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Speaker 5: of you had a big dream for your life. You

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Speaker 5: were going to break out of the mold and set

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Speaker 5: a new standard for your family. You had some disappointments.

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Speaker 5: Nobody believed in you, nobody encouraged you. Now you think

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Speaker 5: it's over. But God is saying it's not over. I

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Speaker 5: have the final say, begin again. You have seeds of

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Speaker 5: greatness on the inside. God wouldn't have put the promise

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Speaker 5: in your heart unless he already intended to bring it

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Speaker 5: to pass. Here's how the scripture puts it. Be confident

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Speaker 5: of this, He that begin a good work in you

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Speaker 5: will bring it to completion. Friends, God is saying to

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Speaker 5: I'm going to finish what I started. I remember the

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Speaker 5: dreams I'm placed in your heart. I've lined up the

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Speaker 5: right people, the right opportunities. It's not too late. You

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Speaker 5: haven't missed too many opportunities. You haven't made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 5: Begin again, get your fire back, get your passion back,

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Speaker 5: and remember, if it doesn't happen your way, keep the

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Speaker 5: right perspective. That would have been a healing. God has

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Speaker 5: a resurrection, He has something better come in your way.

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Speaker 5: If you'll stir your faith up, like Zarube bel told Zachariah,

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Speaker 5: to be confident that God will finish what he started.

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Speaker 5: Then I believe and declare God is going to complete

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Speaker 3: He is going to shift things in your favor.

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Speaker 5: overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become everything God's

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