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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.

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Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 2: and be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again

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Speaker 2: for coming out today. And I'd like to start with

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Speaker 2: something funny and I heard about this mother.

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Speaker 1: One Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2: She went into her son's bedrooms said son, wake up,

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Speaker 2: it's time to go to church. He kind of groaned

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Speaker 2: and rolled over and said, no, Mom, I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to church today.

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Speaker 1: She said, what do you mean you're not going? Why not?

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Speaker 1: He said, Mom, I'll give you two good reasons.

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Speaker 2: Number one, I don't like those people, and number two,

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Speaker 2: they don't like me. She said, son, that's no excuse.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you two better reasons why you should go.

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Speaker 2: Number one, you're fifty nine years old.

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Speaker 1: Too. You're the pastor. Hold up your Bible, say it

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Speaker 1: like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about telling people what they

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Speaker 2: can become. Very often we can see potential in other

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Speaker 2: people that they can't see in themselves.

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Speaker 1: When you speak vision into them, when.

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Speaker 2: You tell them what they can become, you can help

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Speaker 2: set the direction for their life. Our words have the

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Speaker 2: power to push people into their divine destiny. And the

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Speaker 2: reason some people are not living at their full potential

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Speaker 2: is because nobody has ever spoken faith into them. Nobody's

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Speaker 2: taken the time to say and say, hey, you're great

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Speaker 2: at this, You've got.

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Speaker 1: A gift here, You're going to do something amazing.

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Speaker 2: All they remember are the negative things that have been

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Speaker 2: spoken over them, how they're not that talented, how they've

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Speaker 2: reached their limits. Now these incredible gifts, this potential is

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Speaker 2: lying dormant on the inside one of our assignments in

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Speaker 2: life is to call out their seeds of greatness. Look

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Speaker 2: around at who God's put in your life. They're not

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Speaker 2: there by accident. God put them there on purpose. You

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Speaker 2: need to study them. See what they're good at, what

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Speaker 2: are their gifts, what areas do they excel in? Then

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Speaker 2: speak vision into them. Don't just think about it. Tell

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Speaker 2: them what they can become. One word of encouragement can

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Speaker 2: be what ignites the greatness on the inside. When they

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Speaker 2: know you believe in them, they'll rise up with a

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Speaker 2: new confidence. They'll believe in themselves in a greater way.

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Speaker 2: And this is what Victoria has done for me. I

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Speaker 2: never thought that I could get up here in minister

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Speaker 2: I'm naturally more quiet and reserved.

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Speaker 1: I liked being behind the scenes. But ten years.

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Speaker 2: Before my father went to be with the Lord, Victoria

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Speaker 2: would tell me, Joel, one day you're going to be

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Speaker 2: the pastor one day that's going to.

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Speaker 1: Be you up there ministry.

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Speaker 2: That seems so far out I could hardly even entertain it.

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Speaker 1: But to Victoria it was so clear. She could see it.

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Speaker 1: Here's the key. She didn't keep it to herself.

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Speaker 2: She spoke vision into me again and again, Joe, You're

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Speaker 2: going to be a great pastor.

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Speaker 1: You've got what it takes.

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Speaker 2: One time, when we were just married, we were at

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Speaker 2: home and Victoria was reading her Bible and she came

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Speaker 2: across the scripture that says, do you see a man

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Speaker 2: skillful in his work, he will stand before kings. She

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Speaker 1: She said, Joel, this is for you. You're going to

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Speaker 2: I was twenty five years old, working behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: doing the television production at the church. I thought, what

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Speaker 2: But Victoria understood this principle. She wasn't telling me what

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Speaker 2: I was by faith, she was telling me what I

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Speaker 1: Terrible to have to brag on yourself.

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Speaker 2: But not only that, We've had presidents, world leaders, kings sit.

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Speaker 1: Right here before us.

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Speaker 2: I would have never had the confidence, never believed that

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Speaker 2: of faith into my heart. There are people in your

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Speaker 2: life right now waiting for your blessing, waiting for your encouragement.

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Speaker 1: God's given you the.

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Speaker 2: Ability to see what they cannot see in themselves. Don't

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Speaker 2: be too busy think oh, they already know it. No,

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Speaker 2: take time to speak vision, tell.

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Speaker 1: Them what they can become.

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Speaker 2: Your words can be what pushes them into their divine destiny.

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Speaker 2: One time, years ago, Victoria and I were going to

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Speaker 2: build a new house. We just finished drawing the plans

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Speaker 2: and I said to Victoria I need to go see Scott,

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Speaker 2: on this project. He'd built us a house years before

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Speaker 2: that we had solved it. Victoria said, no, Joel, you

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Speaker 2: were at that other house practically every day when it

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Speaker 2: build this house. I said, Victoria, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: Not a builder. I don't know anything about construction. She said,

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Speaker 2: You can hire those subcontractors oversee the construction. You're as

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Speaker 2: smart as anyone else. And sure enough I ended up

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Speaker 2: building that house. Turned out pretty good. I forgot the plumbing,

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Speaker 2: but other than that is all right.

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Speaker 1: What am I saying?

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Speaker 2: We all need somebody to believe in us more than

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Speaker 2: we believe in ourselves. If you'll be that person for

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Speaker 2: somebody else. God will make sure somebody will be it

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Speaker 2: for you. I wouldn't be half of who I am

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Speaker 2: if it were not for Victoria.

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Speaker 1: She has spoken so much faith into me. She's called

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Speaker 1: out the potential.

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Speaker 2: On the inside. What a great trait we should develop.

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Speaker 2: After all, there are enough people trying to push us

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Speaker 2: down in life. There are enough people telling us what

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Speaker 1: Have what it takes. Let's do like she did and

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Speaker 1: push people up.

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Speaker 2: Look out through your eyes of faith, see the potential,

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Speaker 2: tell them what they can become. Friends, every person has

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Speaker 2: seeds of greatness. You can cause your children to rise

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Speaker 1: Your words have created power.

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Speaker 2: When you speak vision, that can be the seed God

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Speaker 2: uses to thrust them to a new level. And really,

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Speaker 2: the most rewarding way to live is not how can

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Speaker 1: What can you do for me? Now?

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Speaker 2: That's shallow? Turn it around. How can I be a blessing?

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Speaker 2: Who can I inspire to rise higher? Where are some

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Speaker 1: Be on the lookout to be a blessing.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing how one word of encouragement can change the

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Speaker 2: direction of a person's life. When you speak vision, they

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Speaker 2: can go from living average mediocre to do in something

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Speaker 2: that they never dreamed of. Nineteen seventy five, a young

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Speaker 2: He was at his mother's beauty shop that she owned,

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Speaker 2: there many times growing up before, and he said hello,

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Speaker 2: but Ruth kept staring and staring at him. Finally, she

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Speaker 2: took the hair dryer off and said, somebody get me

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Speaker 2: and make a positive difference. She handed him the note

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Speaker 2: and said, young man, this is for you. God has

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Speaker 2: something amazing in your future. When he read it, something

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Speaker 2: came alive on the inside.

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Speaker 1: He put that note in his wallet.

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Speaker 2: Whenever he was tempted to get discouraged and give upon

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Speaker 2: somebody believes in me. Somebody believes God's got a great

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Speaker 2: plan for my life. Today, many years later, Denzel Washington

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Speaker 2: of the great actors, the great filmmakers of our time.

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Speaker 1: He's doing now.

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Speaker 2: What she said thirty seven years ago. She spoke vision

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Speaker 2: into his life. Who knows where Denzel would be if

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Speaker 2: Ruth Green had not taken time to tell him what

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Speaker 2: Up to that point, no one had ever told Oprah

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Speaker 1: When she heard that, it changed something on the inside.

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Speaker 2: A seed of greatness took root for the first time.

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Speaker 2: She began to feel valuable, loved, beautiful, like a child

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Speaker 2: of the Most High God. Had that lady not taken

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Speaker 2: heard a thousand times that she's beautiful, I wonder if

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Speaker 2: Oprah would have ever risen up.

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Speaker 1: To touch the world like she has.

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Speaker 2: Would she have ever had the confidence, the self worth,

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Speaker 2: was good enough. You don't know the impact your words

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Speaker 2: can have to you. They may seem insignificant, like it's

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Speaker 1: They can be life changing parents.

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Speaker 2: It's especially important that we speak vision into our children

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Speaker 2: on a regular basis. You need to tell them what

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Speaker 2: great in life. Our words as parents carry incredible weight

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Speaker 2: in a child's life. That's why we should never put

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Speaker 2: our children down. Don't ever tell them you're slow, clumsy, dumb.

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Speaker 2: Why can't you make good grades like your sister? Why

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Speaker 2: are like seeds. They can take root and still be

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Speaker 2: playing in their mind many years later. I know people

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Speaker 2: with the negative things that were spoken over them as

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Speaker 2: a child. Your children need your Blaine. They need to

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Speaker 2: hear you say I'm proud of you, I'm glad you're mind.

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Speaker 2: You're going to do something great in life. Keep a

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Speaker 1: We have to call out their seeds of greatness.

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Speaker 2: You've got to help them stir up the gifts God's

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Speaker 2: put on the inside. Your children will rise to the

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Speaker 2: level of your expectations. They're not just supposed to reach

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Speaker 2: When he heard that, it was like a bomb exploded,

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Speaker 2: You are smart, you are talented. There is nothing you

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Speaker 2: He removed the at risk label and he put on

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Speaker 2: the at possibility label. Today, Deletoral McNeil is extremely successful.

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Speaker 2: He goes around speaking to other young people telling them

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Speaker 2: at possibility. That's the power God's given each one of us.

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Speaker 2: With our words, we can help set the direction of

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Speaker 2: word of encouragement, just to know there are possibilities in

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Speaker 1: Tell them what they can become. Friends.

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Speaker 2: Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody

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Speaker 2: believing in them. God is counting on us to call

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Speaker 2: out their seeds of greatness. So many like del Toro,

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Speaker 2: they have incredible talent and potential on the inside, but

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Speaker 2: They just need somebody to take the time and by

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Speaker 2: faid tell them what they can become. I really believe

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Speaker 2: one reason God has shown our ministry so much favor

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Speaker 2: is because we don't condemn people. We don't judge people,

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Speaker 2: we don't try to make people feel bad. We tell

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Speaker 2: them God is on your side. You have incredible potential.

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Speaker 2: You can still become what has created.

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Speaker 1: You to bear My challenge.

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Speaker 2: Use your words to lift people, call out their seeds

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Speaker 2: Then you'll see not only your family your friends rise

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Speaker 2: come back to you. God will make sure you rise

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Speaker 2: to a new level. And I believe and declare you

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Speaker 2: too will become everything God's created you to be.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Do you receive it today? We never like to

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, come

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Speaker 1: He's going to take you places you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 4: What if every plan you set, every habit you formed,

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Speaker 2: When you start the year in faith, expecting God's goodness,

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