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It helps keep the ministry going. 40 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 6: Enjoy the message. 41 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 4: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes. 42 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 6: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by 43 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 6: and be part of one of our services. I promise 44 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 6: you we will make you feel right at home. I 45 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 6: like to start with something funny, and I heard about 46 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 6: this professor. He was going to prove to his students 47 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 6: that there is no God. He said, God if you're real, 48 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 6: knock me off this platform. 49 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 4: I'm giving you fifteen minutes to do it. 50 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 6: With every minute that went by, he taunted God, God, 51 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 6: I'm still waiting. 52 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 4: I'm still here the last minute. Three hundred pound football. 53 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 6: Player walking down the hallway overheard what he was saying. 54 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 6: He took off, running toward him full blast, put his 55 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 6: shoulder down, send him flying off the platform. The professor 56 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 6: got up in a daze, said, what in the world 57 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 6: do you do that for? Football player replied God said 58 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 6: he was busy, so he sent me. Say it like 59 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 6: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 60 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 6: it says I am. I have what it says I have. 61 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 6: I can do what it says I can do. Today 62 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 6: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 63 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,399 Speaker 6: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 64 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 6: never be the same. 65 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, God bless you. 66 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 6: I want to talk to you today about your destiny 67 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 6: is calling. In the scripture, God called Abraham a father 68 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 6: of many nations. At that time, he didn't have any children. 69 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 6: He and his wife Sarah were too old to have kids. 70 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 6: It looked like God. 71 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 4: Made a mistake. 72 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 6: Abraham could have thought, God, what do you mean. I'm 73 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 6: not a father of many nations. I'm childless. My wife 74 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 6: is barren. Here's the principle. God calls you what you 75 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 6: are before you become it. People call you what you 76 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 6: are after it happens. God calls you what you are 77 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 6: before it happens. When God rejected Saul as the king 78 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 6: of Israel, he told Samuel, I have a man after 79 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 6: my own heart. David will be the next king. What's 80 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 6: interesting is David wasn't a man. He was a teenager. 81 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 6: He was out taking care of his father's sheep. 82 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 4: He was a boy. Yet God called. 83 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 6: Him what he would become in the same way God 84 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 6: calls you blessed, successful, strong, healthy, talented. That may not 85 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 6: all be true right now. You could say, like Abraham, God, 86 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 6: what do you mean, I'm not blessed, I'm struggling in 87 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 6: my finances. I'm not healthy. I'm dealing with this illness. 88 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:37,799 Speaker 6: Don't worry. 89 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 4: It's on the way. 90 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 6: God calls things that are not as if they already were. 91 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 6: There are promises that God has spoken over you, dreams 92 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 6: and goals He's placed in your heart. 93 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 4: You didn't come up with them on your own. 94 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 6: Those aren't just your ideas. God put them there. The 95 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 6: scripture talks. 96 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,239 Speaker 4: About the secret put of your heart. 97 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 6: That means the things you're dreaming about you haven't told 98 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 6: anyone seems too big, too far out. That's your destiny calling. 99 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 6: That's God telling you what you can become. You may 100 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 6: not see how it can happen. Every circumstance may say 101 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 6: you don't have the talent, you don't come from the 102 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 6: right family. You tried last time, it didn't work out. 103 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 6: Don't talk yourself out of it. God has spoken it. 104 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 6: He controls the universe. 105 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 4: All he's looking. 106 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 6: For is someone who will agree with him, someone who 107 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 6: will rise up in faith and say, yes, I can 108 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 6: hear my destiny calling. I may not see away, but God, 109 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 6: I know you have a way. If you speak it, 110 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 6: I believe I. 111 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 4: Can become it. Human nature says, when I see it, 112 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 4: I'll believe it. Faith says, I'll believe it, then I'll 113 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 4: see it. 114 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 6: God will speak things over you that don't seem logical. 115 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 6: When you're sick, the medical report says you won't get well. 116 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 4: God says just the opposite. He calls you healthy, wholes strong. 117 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 4: When the odds are against you. You don't have the. 118 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 6: Connections, the resources, the experience. God calls you successful, prosperous. 119 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 4: The head, and not the tale. 120 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 6: When you're struggling with an addiction, everybody in your family 121 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 6: has had it. If you'll listen, you'll hear your destiny saying. 122 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 4: You are free. This addiction is temporary. 123 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 6: The buck stops with you. God doesn't call you what 124 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 6: you are. He calls you what you can become. This 125 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 6: is what happened with my father. He was raised on 126 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 6: a cotton farm. His family lost everything during the Great Depression. 127 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 6: They were very poor, barely had enough food to survive. 128 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 4: He went to school with holes in his pants, holes 129 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 4: in his shoes. 130 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,039 Speaker 6: Eventually he had to drop out of high school to 131 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 6: help his parents on the farm. 132 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 4: Didn't look like he had much of a future. 133 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 6: Limited education, poverty defeated mindset. But at the age of seventeen, 134 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 6: Daddy gave his life to Christ, the. 135 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 4: First one in his family. 136 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 6: All of a sudden, he had a desire to become 137 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 6: a minister. He knew that's what he was going to 138 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 6: do with his life. Notice the principle. God called him 139 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 6: a pastor before he ever had a church, before he 140 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 6: had any credentials, before he had. 141 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 4: Ever been to seminary. He could hear his destiny calling. 142 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 4: He could have talked himself out of it, thought me 143 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 4: be a pastor. That's never going to work out. 144 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 6: Instead, he let the seed take root. He believed what 145 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 6: God had spoken over him. He started telling people, I'm 146 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 6: a pastor, I'm a minister. They looked at him like 147 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 6: he wasn't all there. Even his family told him, John, 148 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 6: you're not a minute. You better stay here on the 149 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 6: farm with us. All you know how to do is 150 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 6: pick cotton. But people can't see what God sees in you. 151 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 6: God sees your potential. He knows what you're capable of. 152 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 6: He's the one. 153 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 4: That breathe life into you. Don't let people talk you 154 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 4: out of it. 155 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 6: Don't let family members convince you you don't have what 156 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 6: it takes. They're calling you what you are. God is 157 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 6: calling you what you can to come. They can't hear 158 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 6: what you hear. Don't expect people to cheer you on. 159 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 6: Don't count on your friends to keep you encouraged. They 160 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 6: may not be for you. They may think you're far 161 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 6: out and try to talk you out of it. 162 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 4: Don't worry. 163 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 6: You don't have to have other people when you hear 164 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 6: your destiny calling. That's between you and God, and some 165 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 6: things you have to go alone. 166 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 4: You have to say. 167 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 6: God, they may not be for me, but I know 168 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 6: you are for me. You put this promise in my heart. 169 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 6: I'm not going to be moved by who's not cheering 170 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 6: me on, not going to give up because nobody's encouraging me. 171 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 6: I know you being for me is more than enough 172 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 6: to get me to where I'm supposed to be. 173 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 4: Friends. 174 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 6: You and God are a majority. That promise is not 175 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 6: dependent on your family, your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, 176 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 6: your boss, the critics, the naysayers. 177 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 4: It's dependent on you. 178 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 6: When you're at tempted to get discouraged to settle for mediocrity, 179 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 6: you have to dig your heels in and say, I 180 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 6: don't think so. I am in it to win it. 181 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 6: Keep pressing forward, keep honoring God. Your destiny is calling. 182 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 4: Luke. 183 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 6: Chapter one, an angel appeared to Zachariah and told him 184 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 6: that he was going to have a son that they 185 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 6: were to name John. Zachariah's wife, Elizabeth, had been bearing 186 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 6: for many years. They had been praying, believing to have 187 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 6: a child. While Zachariah was excited about the news. He 188 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 6: started reasoning it out. It didn't seem possible. Like Abraham 189 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 6: and Sarah, they too were way too old. And Zachariah 190 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 6: said to the angel, how can I be sure this 191 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 6: is going to happen. I'm an old man and my 192 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 6: wife is well along in years. Was saying, in effect, 193 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 6: I can hear my destiny calling, but I don't see 194 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 6: how it can happen. 195 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 4: We're too old. 196 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 6: God was telling him what he could become, but because 197 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 6: he had been childless for so many years. 198 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 4: He couldn't conceive it. 199 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 6: When you've been a certain way for a long time, 200 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 6: you prayed and believed and it hasn't happened, it's easy 201 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 6: to settle for who you are instead of believing for 202 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 6: who you can become. Too often we get comfortable with mediocrity. 203 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 6: I talked to a gentleman recently. He struggled with an 204 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 6: addiction since high school. He's in his forties. He said, Joel, 205 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 6: I've done everything I can. I've gone through treatment, rehab, counseling. 206 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 6: Nothing has worked. I guess this is my lot in life. 207 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 6: He was saying, this is who I am. Yes, that 208 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 6: may be who you are, but you don't have to 209 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 6: stay that way, God is telling you what you can become. 210 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 6: Freedom is in your future, Wholeness is in your future. 211 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 6: Breakthroughs are headed your way. Maybe you've been single a 212 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 6: long time. You don't think you'll ever meet the right person. 213 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 6: That is not the end, that's a season. God has 214 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 6: already lined up a divine connection for you, somebody better 215 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 6: than you can imagine. Perhaps you feel stuck in your career. 216 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,239 Speaker 6: You can't seem to get a good break. That's not permanent, 217 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 6: it's only temporary. There is promotion in your future. There 218 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 6: are new levels up ahead. Now, don't do like Zachariah. Joel, 219 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 6: this is too good to be true. I don't see how. 220 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 4: Let the seed take root. 221 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 6: That's your destiny calling, Zachariah said to the angel, are 222 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 6: you sure this is going to happen? The angel said, Zachariah, 223 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 6: I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God. 224 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 6: He sent me to tell you this good news. But 225 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 6: because you didn't believe my words, you will remain silent 226 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 6: and not able to speak until the day it happens. 227 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 6: From that moment on, Zachariah couldn't talk. He walked out, 228 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 6: saw his family and friends couldn't get a word out 229 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 6: for nine months he was silent. 230 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 4: Why was that. God knew if he went. 231 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 6: Around saying it's never going to happen. This angel told 232 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 6: us we're going to have a baby. We're too old, 233 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 6: the promise never would have come to pass. You can 234 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 6: talk yourself out of your victory when you hear your 235 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 6: destiny calling. 236 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 4: You may not see how it can happen. 237 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 6: But don't start talking about how it's not going to 238 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 6: work out. Do yourself a favor and zip it up. 239 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 6: It may seem unlikely. The medical report says, no way, 240 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 6: the child is off course. But if Gabriel we're standing 241 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 6: here today, he would say the same thing to you 242 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 6: that he said to Zachariah. I stand in the presence 243 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 6: of Almighty God. What he promised you will come to pass. 244 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 6: If you will stay in faith. All the forces of 245 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 6: darkness cannot keep it from happening. God will open doors 246 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 6: that no man can shut. He'll turn situations around that 247 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 6: look impossible. When there are obstacles trying to stop you. 248 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 6: God said He'll cause you to run through a troop 249 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 6: or leap over a wall. That means, if you can't 250 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 6: get through it, God will cause you to go over it. 251 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 6: Bottom line is God will get you to where you're 252 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 6: supposed to be. People can't stop you. Bad breaks can't 253 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 6: stop you. Sickness can't stop you. God has the final say, 254 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 6: and we're not supposed to get duck in one level. 255 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 6: Be grateful for where you are, thank God for what 256 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 6: He's done, but keep your faith stirred up. 257 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 4: God wants to take you. 258 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 6: From glory to glory, from victory to victory. There are 259 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 6: new mountains for you to climb. He's going to open 260 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 6: new doors, give you greater influence, bring gifts and talents 261 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 6: out in a new way. This is where you are, 262 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 6: but God is saying you can become something greater. Nine 263 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 6: months later, Elizabeth gave birth to a baby boy. The 264 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 6: promise was fulfilled and her friends and family were so 265 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 6: excited for they knew that was the. 266 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 4: Favor of God. 267 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 6: And on the eighth day they came together, they decided 268 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 6: to name the baby Zachariah, after the father. The friends 269 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 6: and family came up with the name, but Elizabeth, the mother, 270 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 6: spoke up and said, no, his name will not be Zachariah. 271 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 4: His name will be John. 272 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 6: They looked at her strangely, Elizabeth, what do you mean 273 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 6: nobody in your family is named John. And back in 274 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 6: those days, it wasn't good enough for the mother to 275 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 6: name the baby. Women didn't have the authority and influence 276 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 6: that they have today. So they looked at the father, Zachariah. Well, 277 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 6: he still couldn't talk. He motioned for something to write on. 278 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 6: Much to their surprise, he wrote down the name John. 279 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 6: The moment he did he could speak again. 280 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 4: His mouth was open. 281 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 6: But the scripture says they named the baby, not the 282 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 6: mother or the father, but friends and family came up 283 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 6: with what they thought the best name for the child was. 284 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 6: And sometimes well meaning people will try to name your baby. 285 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 4: I say this respectfully. 286 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 6: We all have theys in our life and we should 287 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 6: listen to counsel, take it vice. But you cannot let 288 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 6: other people name your baby. Don't let somebody else name 289 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 6: your future. You know what God put in your heart. 290 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 6: You can't please people all the time and please God 291 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 6: all the time. Sometimes people will name you something that 292 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 6: you're not. They'll name you average, not talented, addicted too talk. 293 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 6: Don't let them put limitations on you and convince you 294 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 6: that you can accomplish your dreams. Sometimes, because of their 295 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 6: own issues, they're not dealing with their own insecurities. They'll 296 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 6: try to keep you down so they don't look so bad. 297 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 6: You may have to disappoint a few people in order 298 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 6: to fulfill your purpose. Life is too short to hang 299 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 6: around people who are not making you better, who are 300 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 6: not pushing you forward. You don't have time to waste 301 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 6: with people that are causing you to compromise, draining your energy, 302 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 6: getting your off course, negative, critical, bitter, jealous people. 303 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 4: Your destiny is calling. 304 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 6: You have an assignment to fulfill, well, Joel, What if 305 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 6: I hurt their feelings? 306 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 4: What if you miss your destiny? What if you don't 307 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 4: become all you were created to be? Who's naming your baby? 308 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 6: It's interesting how back then the mother couldn't name the child, 309 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 6: so they had to look to Zachariah, the father, and 310 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 6: ask him, what's the baby's name. The principle is let 311 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 6: your heavenly father name your future. That's why we say 312 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 6: every service, I am who God says I am. We're saying, 313 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 6: in effect, i am not who people say I am. 314 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 6: I am not who my circumstances say I am. I 315 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 6: am not who my past says I am. I am 316 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 6: not who my mistakes say. I am I am who, 317 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 6: the most tied God, the creator of the universe, the 318 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 6: one who spoke worlds into existence. 319 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 4: I am who, he says I am. 320 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 6: People may tell you you're addicted, you'll never get on the 321 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 6: right course. 322 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 4: The good news is they can't name your future. 323 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 6: God says you are free, you are clean, you are whole. 324 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 6: You may not be there yet, but God's telling you 325 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 6: what you can become. Your past may tell you you're 326 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 6: washed up, you made too many mistakes. 327 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 4: You're a failure. 328 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 6: But your heavenly father says you are forgiven, you are redeemed, 329 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:24,959 Speaker 6: you are restored. 330 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 4: My mercy is bigger than any mistake. 331 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 6: The critics, the naysayers, the haters may tell you you're 332 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 6: not valuable, you're not attractive, you don't have anything to offer. 333 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 6: Don't believe those lies. They don't have the authority to 334 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 6: name your future. Your heavenly Father says you are one 335 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 6: of a kind. He names you a masterpiece, a prized possession. 336 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 6: He said You've been fearfully and wonderfully made. He's crowned 337 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 6: you with favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 338 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 6: He's created you to reign in life as a king, 339 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 6: make sure, your heavenly father is naming your future. When 340 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 6: God gave Abraham the promise that his wife Sarah was 341 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 6: going to have a baby she was seventy years old, 342 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 6: didn't seem possible. In fact, when Abraham told Sarah, the 343 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 6: scripture says, she laughed. She thought, yeah, right, Abraham, me 344 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 6: have a baby at my age. 345 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 4: She had been baring for so many years. They had 346 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 4: prayed and believed. 347 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 6: Everybody else was having babies, but Sarah couldn't have one now. 348 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,880 Speaker 6: When she heard this promise that, after all these years, 349 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 6: when it defied the laws of nature, that she was 350 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 6: going to have a baby, that was so. 351 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 4: Far out that it was funny to her. 352 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 6: And sometimes God will put a promise in our heart 353 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 6: that's difficult to believe. Instead of latching onto it, too 354 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 6: often we do like Sarah and think that's never going 355 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 6: to happen for me. Joel, I'll never get out of debt, 356 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 6: be able to pay my house off. I'll never have 357 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 6: the funds to build that orphanage I'm dreaming about. I'll 358 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 6: never be free from this depression. I've had it my 359 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 6: whole life. This is the way Sarah felt, and God 360 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 6: did something interesting. He changed her name from Sarah to Sarah. 361 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 6: Sarah means princes. If anybody didn't feel like a princess, 362 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 6: it would have been Sarah. I can imagine she felt inadequate, unattractive, 363 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 6: left out. Life hadn't treated her fairly. God knew he 364 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 6: had to change her mindset. Her destiny was calling, but 365 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 6: she had been through so much she. 366 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 4: Couldn't hear it any longer. 367 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 6: Now, every time someone said good morning, Sarah, they were saying, 368 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 6: good morning, princes. 369 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 4: How are you, Sarah? 370 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 6: How are your princes? Over and over she heard that 371 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 6: word princess. Something began to come alive on the inside. 372 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 6: She started carrying herself differently instead of discounting the promise. 373 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 6: Now I can hear her telling people, I'm going to 374 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 6: have a baby. God's going to do something special in 375 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 6: my life. She let the seed take root. At the 376 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 6: age of ninety, against all odds, she gave birth to 377 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 6: a baby boy. The promise God put in you may 378 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 6: seem far out. It's taken a long time. You tried 379 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 6: and it didn't work. But God didn't bring you this 380 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 6: far to leave you what he started in your life. 381 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 4: He's going to finish. 382 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 6: There's no problem too big, no dream too great. God 383 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 6: is not limited by your age, your income, your background, 384 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 6: your nationality, bio medical report. 385 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 4: He has all power. 386 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 6: When he speaks, worlds come into existence. He wouldn't have 387 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 6: given you that promise if he didn't know how to 388 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 6: bring it to pass. Why don't you shake off doubt, 389 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 6: shake off negativity, and get a fresh new vision for 390 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 6: your life. God is calling you into new levels. He's 391 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 6: calling you into freedom, into health, into abundance, into victory. 392 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 6: If you'll get in agreement with him, he'll take you 393 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 6: places that you've never dreamed. He'll make things happen that 394 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 6: you could never make happen on your own. This is 395 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 6: what happened to a friend of mine. She grew up 396 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 6: in a small town in Mississippi. She was raised very 397 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 6: poor in a dysfunctional environment where she suffered abuse. It 398 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 6: looked like she would become a statistic never amount to much. 399 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 6: But one morning, at the age of five, when the 400 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 6: milkman was dropping off the milk at their small house, 401 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 6: he looked her in the eyes and said, young lady, 402 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 6: one day you're going to become Miss America. Up to 403 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 6: that point, nobody had ever told her what she could become. 404 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 6: All she had seen and heard was function, defeat, abuse, mediocrity. 405 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 6: When she heard that a seed was planted in her heart. 406 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 6: Every Tuesday, year after year, this milkman would tell her 407 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,719 Speaker 6: the same thing, You're going to become Miss America in 408 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 6: the natural. She had no reason to even entertain that thought. 409 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 4: She didn't have connections. 410 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 6: Resources, stability, nobody to help her with their dreams. But 411 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 6: if you could do it on your own, it wouldn't 412 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 6: take faith. God will put things in your heart that 413 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 6: seem beyond your talent, beyond your ability, beyond your reach. 414 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 6: Now eleven years old, this young girl was involved in 415 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 6: a head on automobile accident. 416 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 4: She was thrown from. 417 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 6: The car and broke her leg in thirty two places. 418 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 6: She had to have two hundred stitches on her face. 419 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 6: So much for becoming Miss America. For five years she 420 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 6: was crippled and in a wheelchair. Most people would have 421 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 6: given up. Not this young lady. That dream was deep 422 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 6: down in her heart. At nineteen, she entered her local 423 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 6: beauty pageant in one first place. She went on to 424 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 6: win the Mississippi contest. Later that same year, nineteen eighty, 425 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 6: our friend Sheryl Pruitt Salem became. 426 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 4: Miss America the promise was fulfilled. She and her husband, 427 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 4: Harry are now ministers. They go around the world helping others. 428 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 6: But it all started when that milkman told her what 429 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 6: she could become. God will use people to speak life 430 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 6: into your destiny. I believe he's using me now to 431 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 6: let you know you have seeds of greatness. 432 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 4: You haven't seen your best days. 433 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 6: You have what it takes to accomplish your dreams. That 434 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 6: obstacle cannot stop you. That sickness is not going to 435 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 6: defeat you. You haven't made too many mistakes, you haven't 436 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 6: missed too too many opportunities. Your future will be brighter 437 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 6: than your past. Now do your part and stir your 438 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 6: faith back up. Don't let disappointments talk you out of it. 439 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 6: Don't let what somebody did cause you to live bitter 440 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 6: and give up on your dreams. 441 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 4: God has beauty for those ashes. 442 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 6: He said he would pay you back double for the 443 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 6: unfair situations. 444 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 4: Nothing that's happened to you can keep you from your destiny. 445 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 6: There are new levels up ahead, new friendships, new opportunities. 446 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 6: Don't let a bad break name your future. Don't let 447 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 6: a disadvantage convince you to settle for mediocrity. God put 448 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 6: greatness in you. He created you to leave your mark 449 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 6: on this generation. You're supposed to do like her and 450 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,199 Speaker 6: set a new standard for your family. You may have 451 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 6: had some setbacks, but the forces that are for you 452 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 6: are greater than the forces that are against you. 453 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 4: The most high God is breathing in your direction. 454 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 6: In the Scripture of God called Jeremiah to be a 455 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 6: prophet to the nations. Jeremiah was young and unsure of himself. 456 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 6: He said, God, I can't speak to the nations. I'm 457 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 6: too young. I'm afraid I wouldn't know what to say. 458 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 6: God said, Jeremiah, before you were formed in your mother's womb. 459 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 6: I knew you before you were born. I consecrated you 460 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 6: and set you apart. God was saying, Jeremiah, before you 461 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 6: showed up on this earth, I already knew everything about you. 462 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 6: I knew every weakness you would have, every shortcoming. I 463 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 6: knew every person that would do you wrong, every bad break, 464 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 6: and I've already calculated all that into my plan. 465 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 4: For your life. 466 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 6: Like Jeremiah, it's easy to come up with excuses. God, 467 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 6: I don't have a good personality. I still struggle with 468 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 6: my temper. God these people did me wrong. I didn't 469 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 6: have a good childhood. My boss plays favorites. God has 470 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 6: all already taken that into account. It doesn't have to 471 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 6: stop you. God went on to tell Jeremiah, say not 472 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 6: that you are too young. 473 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 4: If you're going to. 474 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 6: Reach the fullness of your destiny, you have to get 475 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 6: rid of the say nots. 476 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 4: Say not. 477 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 6: This problem is too big. Say not, I'll never get well. 478 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 6: Say not, I don't have the talent. Say not. I've 479 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 6: had too many disadvantages, I have too many weaknesses. Gone 480 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 6: as far as I can before you were formed in 481 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 6: your mother's womb. God equipped you and empowered you. 482 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 4: You are not lacking. You didn't get short changed. You 483 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 4: are well able. 484 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 6: Now don't let the say nots keep you from your destiny. 485 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 6: Get your mind, your words, your vision going in the 486 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 6: right direction. 487 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 4: You are who God says you are. 488 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 6: He says you are strong, healthy, forgiven, redeemed successful. Now 489 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 6: you may not be all that yet. You have to 490 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 6: believe it first, and then you'll become it. If you'll 491 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 6: do this, I believe and declare you are about to 492 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 6: rise to a new level, overcome every obstacle, accomplish every dream, 493 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 6: and become everything God's created you to. 494 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 4: Be in Jesus' name. If you receive it, can you 495 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 4: say amen? Today? 496 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 6: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 497 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 6: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 498 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? 499 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:33,360 Speaker 6: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 500 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 6: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 501 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 6: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 502 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,479 Speaker 6: born again. Get in a good Bible based church, and 503 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 6: keep God first place. 504 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 4: Thank you for listening to the Jolus Deine podcast. 505 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 7: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 506 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 7: those all over the world. 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