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Speaker 4: coming out today. I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 4: And one day this young man was talking to God

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Speaker 4: and he said, God, what's a million years like to you?

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Speaker 4: God says, Son, to me, a million years is like

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Speaker 4: one second. He said, well, God, what's a million dollars

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Speaker 4: me is like one penny to you. Thought about it

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Speaker 4: a moment. He finally got up his courage. He said, God,

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Speaker 4: a second. Hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 4: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 4: can do what it says I can do. Today I

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Speaker 4: mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never

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Speaker 4: be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I

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Speaker 4: want to talk to you today about the Valley of Blessing.

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Speaker 4: We all go through difficult times in life and things

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Speaker 4: That's not a valley to hold you back. It's a

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Speaker 4: probably know who Tony Dungee is one of the great

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Speaker 4: valley of Reffian Reffium means giants. Some twenty years earlier

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Speaker 4: It's the Valley of blessing. Friends, if you'll start renaming

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