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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 4: about these three men that were out in the wilderness.

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Speaker 4: They came upon this violent, raging river. They needed to

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Speaker 4: get to the other side. The first man prayed, God,

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Speaker 4: please give me the strength to make it across, and

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Speaker 4: poof God gave them big arms and strong legs. He

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Speaker 4: was able to swim across in two hours. The next

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Speaker 4: man prayed, God, please give me the strength and the

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Speaker 4: The third man prayed, God, please give me the strength,

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Speaker 4: the tools, and the intelligence to make it across, and

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Speaker 4: poof God turned him into a woman. She looked at

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Speaker 4: the map hight five minutes up the stream and walked

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Speaker 4: across the bridge. Yes, that was sent to me by

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Speaker 4: a woman. But here we go. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 4: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 4: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 4: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 4: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 4: about don't settle for less. All of us have dreams

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Speaker 4: that we're believing for and promises that God has spoken

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Speaker 4: to us. At one time, we were excited about them.

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Speaker 4: But too often, when it's taken longer than we thought,

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Speaker 4: or because our health hasn't improved, we didn't get the promotion.

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Speaker 4: Our child isn't making good decisions, we get discouraged and

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Speaker 4: quit believing for the fullness of what's in our heart.

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Speaker 4: It's easy to water down what God's promised us. I

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Speaker 4: Is good enough. I was believing for a nice house,

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Speaker 4: who you were created to be. Good enough is not

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Speaker 4: You haven't missed your chance. What God promised you is

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Speaker 4: a partial healing, not a make do promotion, not a

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Speaker 4: good enough marriage. Know exactly what God promised you, what

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Speaker 4: you're not seeing this favor is you've settled. You've accepted

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Speaker 4: Mediocrity is not your home. Good Enough is not your destiny.

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Speaker 4: Getting by is not where you belong. You may be

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Speaker 4: But sometimes, instead of stirring our faith up and believing

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Speaker 4: justify what we're seeing. I can't seem to break this addiction,

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Speaker 4: I don't never reach my dreams, but hey, I'm doing

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Speaker 4: you think is going to happen, why don't you leave

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Speaker 4: the goal there and say, God, I don't see how

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Speaker 4: get well, how my family will be restored, how can

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Speaker 4: reach my dreams? But God, I know you wouldn't have

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Speaker 4: I know you have a way where I don't see away,

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Speaker 4: So I'm not gonna settle here. I'm gonna keep believing.

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Speaker 4: That's what allows God to do great things. Genesis fifteen.

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Speaker 4: God told Abraham he was going to have a son.

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Speaker 4: The problem was Abraham was seventy five years old, his wife,

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Speaker 4: Sarah was sixty five. They'd never had children. She'd been

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Speaker 4: change of life. It was impossible in the natural. Year

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Speaker 4: after year went by no sign of a baby. Every

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Speaker 4: too old. It's never going to happen. Sarah finally told

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Speaker 4: When God speaks something to us. Instead of coming up

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Speaker 4: we bring it down to our level. When I got

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Speaker 4: came alive on the inside. I knew it was supposed

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Speaker 4: my spirit, my mind said, there's no way we'll get

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Speaker 4: the building. It's too expensive. The city will never let

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Speaker 4: Voices whispered, Joel, come back to your senses. Don't get

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Speaker 4: your hopes up. It's never going to happen. It's easy

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Speaker 4: to get talked out of the great things God has

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Speaker 4: you can't have a baby at eighty Joel. You'll never

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Speaker 4: get the basketball arena, Dody. You'll never beat terminal cancer.

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Speaker 4: Just accept it. You'll never write your book, never start

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Speaker 4: your business, never build that children's home you're dreaming about.

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Speaker 4: You don't have the resources. You may not, but God does.

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Speaker 4: He's not asking you to figure it out. He's asking

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Speaker 4: you to believe. Why don't you take the limits off

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Speaker 4: of him? Well, Joel, I can't think of any good

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Speaker 4: reason to get my hopes up. Seems so unlikely, so impossible.

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Speaker 4: Let me give you one great reason. The Most High

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Speaker 4: God is on your side. He is breathing in your

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Speaker 4: wasn't about to do something unusual, uncommon, something that you

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Speaker 4: business take off so fast? You didn't have the connections. No,

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Speaker 4: but you have the fevor of God. You have his

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Speaker 4: blessing on your life. What He's promised you will come

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Speaker 4: thinking for the abundant, overflowing, more than enough life that

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Speaker 4: I'm eighty years old. Surely God didn't mean I would

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Speaker 4: Let me help God make this happen. God doesn't need

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Speaker 4: makes sense to you. Don't let what you don't have

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Speaker 4: agreement with him. God, this seems impossible to me, but

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Speaker 4: I know you can do the impossible. I'm looking at

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Speaker 4: You can take me where I can't go on my own.

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Speaker 4: When the three Hebrew teenagers were about to be thrown

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Speaker 4: They should have instantly been killed. The fire was so

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Speaker 4: may mean developing your business plan, meeting with mentors to

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Speaker 4: you need it. May mean putting more effort into your marriage,

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Speaker 4: spending more time with the person God gave you to love.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps not settling for you is going up to the gym,

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Speaker 4: to get back in shape. But I wonder where you

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Speaker 4: could be in ten years if you just don't settle.

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Speaker 4: Who knows where God has taken you? Who knows the

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Speaker 4: the dreams you're going to accomplish, the gifts that are

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Speaker 4: going to come out of you. A more sobering thought,

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Speaker 4: where will you be in ten years if you do settle?

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Speaker 4: What will you miss? If you settle in mediocrity, settle

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Speaker 4: in dysfunction, settle in self pity, in bitterness, you will

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Speaker 4: miss who you were created to be friends. What's in

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Speaker 4: front of you is way too important to settle. God

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Speaker 4: has your isaacs. He's already lined up your good breaks,

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Speaker 4: the healing, the freedom, the business. Now do your part.

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Speaker 4: Don't let good enough become good enough, get your fire

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Speaker 4: back and go after the destiny that belongs to you.

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Speaker 4: Our attitude should be I'm not going to settle next

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Speaker 4: door to barbmised land. I am going in. I'm going

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Speaker 4: do this, I believe and declare Isaac is coming something

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Speaker 4: more than you've imagined. New levels in your career, freedom

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Speaker 4: from that addiction, breakthroughs in your finances, healing, wholeness, abundance,

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Speaker 4: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, and if

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Speaker 4: you receive it. Can you say a men? Today? I'd

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Speaker 4: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,

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Speaker 4: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll

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Speaker 4: make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that

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Speaker 4: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in

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