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Speaker 2: Anything that's in front of you. You are Grace to Go.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy today's message. Well, God bless you. It's a joy

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Speaker 1: But thanks so much for tuning in. Thank you again

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Speaker 1: for coming out. I'd like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 1: It's being completely controlled by the most advanced computers available today.

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Speaker 1: It's been tested and retested. You have nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the flight. Hold up your Bible, say it like

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about how God will.

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Speaker 1: Every person has weaknesses, faults, even things that we would

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Speaker 1: in the unseen realm, chains are broken, chains of inferiority,

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Speaker 1: He didn't choose you because you're perfect. He chose you

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Speaker 1: If you will do this, like the golf ball, those imperfections,

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