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Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in today and thanks

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Speaker 5: again for coming out. I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 5: And I heard about this pastor. He was greeting people

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Speaker 4: He pulled him.

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Speaker 5: Aside and said, sir, you need to join the Army

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Speaker 5: of the Lord. The man said, what do you mean,

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Speaker 5: The man whispered back, I'm in the Secret Service. All right,

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Speaker 5: hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have.

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

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Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about taking steps

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Speaker 5: to grow. I have to realize that growth is not automatic.

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Speaker 5: There are many successful people, but they haven't reached half

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Speaker 5: of their potential because they stopped growing. There's something called

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Speaker 5: destination disease. That is, when we reach a certain goal,

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Speaker 5: when we get our degree, when we get a certain position,

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Speaker 4: Off of what we've already learned. We may make a.

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Speaker 5: Little progress here and there, but we're really not learning

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Speaker 5: Are you doing anything to stretch yourself? Friends, God's given

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Speaker 5: Main goals should be to develop our potential. I read

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Speaker 5: Nothing against TV Guide, but we should use our time wisely.

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Speaker 5: No, we're never supposed to stop learning today. There are

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Speaker 5: so many opportunities to grow with modern technology.

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Speaker 5: You shouldn't be at the same place next year in

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Speaker 5: to read books on how to communicate more effectively. People

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Speaker 5: lot of times we're waiting on God to open doors. God,

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Speaker 5: if you'll give me more favor, God, just give me

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Speaker 5: more opportunity. But really God's waiting on us to develop

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Speaker 5: into that potential. When I was in my early twenties.

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Speaker 5: We were about to buy a significant amount of television

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Speaker 5: and he said, Joel, I'd like to fly back with

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Speaker 4: Turn around fly back to Dallas. I said, no, no,

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Speaker 5: man knew everything about me. He knew where I had

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Speaker 5: This man probably knew more about me than anybody.

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Speaker 4: It was amazing. I finally said, why do you know

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Speaker 4: all this? He said, Joel, It's.

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Speaker 5: Something I learned from one of the greatest salespersons that's

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Speaker 5: The more I know about my clients, the better I'll

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Speaker 5: better I'll be able to serve them. He said, Joel,

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Speaker 4: That's why he was.

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Speaker 5: always look for ways to improve to become everything God's

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Speaker 5: No, that's destination disease coming on strong, trying to limit you.

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Speaker 5: develop your gifts to the point where your company cannot

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Speaker 5: it up a notch. Eh Joel, I have a kind

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Speaker 4: On the debate team. Make the most of what you have.

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Speaker 5: High school, junior high those are critical formative years.

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Speaker 4: There's so much emphasis on sports these days, and I

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Speaker 4: love sports.

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Speaker 5: I've played sports all growing up, and I know they

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Speaker 5: teach us discipline and perseverance and teamwork.

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Speaker 4: But we need to keep it all in perspective.

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Speaker 5: Most likely we are not going to play sports for

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Speaker 5: a living.

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Speaker 4: I read where.

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Speaker 5: One in five million young men will play professional basketball. Now,

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Speaker 5: I don't mean to depress you, but if you're white,

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Speaker 5: it's one in fifteen million. If you're my size, it's

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Speaker 5: one in two billion. The average professional football career is

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Speaker 5: three and a half years. And even if you do

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Speaker 5: make it, and we have a lot of professional athletes

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Speaker 5: here today, and that's great, we're all for you, but

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Speaker 5: you still need a good foundation to build on. And

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Speaker 5: when you take learn and growing seriously, you get in

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Speaker 5: school and you're serious about your education.

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Speaker 4: People may call you.

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Speaker 5: A bookworm, a geek, a nerd, but don't let any

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Speaker 5: of that bother you, because in a few years they'll

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Speaker 5: call you boss. They'll call you CEO, doctor, senator, superintendent, pastor.

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Speaker 5: I heard somebody say popularity is people liking you.

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Speaker 4: Happiness is you liking you.

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Speaker 5: Don't worry about who doesn't like you. Just make sure

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Speaker 5: that you like you, that you're being the best that

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Speaker 5: you can be. It's good to set growth goals.

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Speaker 4: Where do you want to be in a year.

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Speaker 5: If you don't set goals, you're probably not going to

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Speaker 5: end up there. I read about this young man. In

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Speaker 5: high school, he was a star swimmer. His dream was

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Speaker 5: to compete in the Olympics. In nineteen seventy two, he

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Speaker 5: was watching the Olympics on television, and when he saw

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Speaker 5: he only had to lower his time by four seconds.

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Speaker 4: And he would be able to compete. So he came

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Speaker 5: He had four years to prepare, and he figured if

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Speaker 5: he would train ten months a year for four years,

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Speaker 5: all he had to do was lower his time by

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Speaker 5: one tenth.

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Speaker 4: Of a second each month.

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Speaker 5: He broke it down into small increments, and he knew

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Speaker 5: if he'd get a little bit better each day, he

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Speaker 5: could reach his goal.

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Speaker 4: He's stuck with it. Sure enough.

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Speaker 5: In nineteen seventy six, John Nabor came home with four

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Speaker 5: Olympic gold medals. The point I'm making is if you

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Speaker 5: will develop a plan to get a little bit better

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Speaker 5: each day, you'll be amazed at where you'll be in

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Speaker 5: a year, five years, twenty years. Right now that goal

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Speaker 5: may look way way off, but all it really takes

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Speaker 5: is a little growth, a little of improvement each day.

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Speaker 5: I have a friend that grew up in a very

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Speaker 5: poor environment. His father left the family at an early age,

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Speaker 5: and he was being raised by a single parent mom

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Speaker 5: in the projects. He was very insecure and he had

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Speaker 5: a terrible problem with stuttering. And through a series of

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Speaker 5: good breaks and really God's favor, he got accepted into college.

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Speaker 4: His dream was to become a journalist.

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Speaker 5: But the first few days in college, a professor said

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Speaker 5: to him, you're wasting your time.

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Speaker 4: You stutter too much. You will never be a journalist.

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Speaker 5: He was sitting on the front lawn of the college

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Speaker 5: about to go home, so depressed, and this lady came

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Speaker 5: along and said, son, what's wrong. He explained what the

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Speaker 5: teacher had told him and how he was about to

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Speaker 5: drop out. She looked at him very sternly and said,

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Speaker 5: how dare he tell you that you're not going to

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Speaker 5: drop out?

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Speaker 4: You're come in with me. She was the dean of

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Speaker 4: the college.

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Speaker 5: She put him in a different class and she got

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Speaker 5: rid of that other professor. This young man, this young

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Speaker 5: man had never met his roommate. They came from two

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Speaker 5: totally different backgrounds. His roommate was raised in a wealthy environment,

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Speaker 5: from a well to do home.

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Speaker 4: Here came from the projects.

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Speaker 5: But God always knows what he's doing. When you have

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Speaker 5: a desire to improve, to get better, God will make

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Speaker 5: sure the right people come across your path. And that roommate,

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Speaker 5: when he found out what his friend wanted to become,

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Speaker 5: he said, you'll never be a journalist with your vocabulary

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Speaker 5: like that.

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Speaker 4: You need to learn some new words.

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Speaker 5: He took him under his wing, and every day that

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Speaker 5: roommate taught him a new word, day after day, month

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Speaker 5: after month, without fail. He'd get the dictionary out, taught

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Speaker 5: him a word, taught him how to say it, taught

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Speaker 5: him how to pronounce it. He would make his friend

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Speaker 5: use it back to him in a sentence. Four years,

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Speaker 5: every day learning a new word. Today, that young man

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Speaker 5: is an award winning journalist. He works for the major network.

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Speaker 5: He continues to excel. I see him on the news.

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Speaker 4: All the time. But it all started by learning one

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Speaker 4: new word a day. Well, what is your plan for

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Speaker 4: personal growth?

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Speaker 5: Are you doing anything intentionally and strategically to better yourself?

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Speaker 4: If not, you can start today. Come up with the plan.

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Speaker 5: It can be something simple like I'm gonna get up

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Speaker 5: every morning and spend the first twenty minutes meditating on

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Speaker 5: God's word.

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Speaker 4: Thanking God for what He's done.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna listen to a teaching CD on the way

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Speaker 5: to work at night. I'm gonna turn the TV off

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Speaker 5: a little bit earlier and read a book for twenty minutes.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna hook up with my mentor twice a month

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Speaker 5: and go out to lunch. I'm gonna be at church

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Speaker 5: every weekend. That's a growth plan. And as you take

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Speaker 5: your growth responsibly, God will honor your efforts.

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Speaker 4: I believe in the.

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Speaker 5: Coming days you're going to see new opportunities come across

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Speaker 5: your path. You're gonna have opportunities to stretch, to take

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Speaker 5: on new challenges, to go to a new level. But

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Speaker 5: you've got to be prepared. Don't let destination disease set in.

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Speaker 5: You have seeds of greatness on the inside just waiting

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Speaker 5: to take root and flourish. Make a decision. You're gonna

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Speaker 5: learn something new every single day. If you will get

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Speaker 5: in a growth plan for your life and stick with

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Speaker 5: it and really focus on developing your gifts, then God

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Speaker 5: promises your gifts will make room for you. That means

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Speaker 5: he'll do for you what he did for that young man.

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Speaker 5: He'll bring the right people into your life. He'll give

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Speaker 5: you the right breaks He'll give you the right opportunities.

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Speaker 5: You'll rise higher and higher. And I believe and declare

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Speaker 5: you'll see every dream, every desire God's put in your heart.

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Speaker 4: You'll see that come to fulfillment.

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Speaker 5: Amen, do you receive it today? We never like to

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Speaker 5: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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