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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. So God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes and you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop by and be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to get

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Speaker 1: started each week with something kind of funny, and I

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Speaker 1: heard about this pastor and song leader that we're not

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Speaker 1: getting along, and it started to spill over into the services.

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Speaker 1: One Sunday, the pastor spoke about being willing to change. Afterwards,

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Speaker 1: Shall not be moved. The next week, he spoke on

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Speaker 1: being a giver. The song leader got up and led

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Speaker 1: Jesus paid it all. Next week he talked about gossip

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Speaker 1: and how you have to watch your tongue, and the

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Speaker 1: song leader led, I love to tell the story. The

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Speaker 1: pastor got so frustrated he finally resigned. He said, Jesus

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Speaker 1: song leader then led, what a friend we have in

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Speaker 1: Jesus die. All right, hold up your bible, say it

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Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about developing and overflow mentality.

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Speaker 1: Our God is a running over God, and we're not

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Speaker 1: supposed to just have our needs supplied. We're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be so blessed when other people get around us, it

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Speaker 1: overflows onto them. We should be so blessed in our

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Speaker 1: finances that we cannot only pay our bills, not only

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Speaker 1: And if we're going to live this abundant life, we

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Speaker 1: have to have an overflow mentality. You've got to know

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Speaker 1: it's God's dream that you prosper. Just like as a parent,

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Speaker 1: I love to see my children doing well. I love

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Speaker 1: the same way with God. He takes pleasure in prospering you.

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Speaker 1: We were never created to barely get by. We weren't

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Speaker 1: created to have to constantly struggle. God made us to

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Speaker 1: through the day. Reminds yourself. God takes pleasure in prospering me.

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Speaker 1: His favor surrounds me like a shield. His blessings are

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Speaker 1: And of course we all go through times of testing.

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Speaker 1: There are seasons where we don't see any increase, getting

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Speaker 1: any good breaks. We have to dig our heels in

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Speaker 1: designed it is that seasons always change. That means we're

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Speaker 1: not supposed to constantly struggle. It is not your destiny

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Speaker 1: some point, the test will come to an end. At

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Speaker 1: It's easy to lose our fire, lose our passion, and think, ah, man,

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Speaker 1: You've gone through sowing. Now you need to start believing

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Speaker 1: that harvest is coming your way. And some of you

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Speaker 1: have been so faithful. You've gotten up each day and

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Speaker 1: Why don't you get a vision for it, not to

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Speaker 1: barely get by. Maybe one day I'll have enough. Maybe

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Speaker 1: know I've had people say, well, Joel, my family's always struggled.

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Speaker 1: This is what my father did. His family was one

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Speaker 1: is not where we're staying. We are coming up higher.

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Speaker 1: What happened He developed a new mindset. Up to that point,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be where I am today. The decision he made

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Speaker 1: he and my mother stayed faithful. They kept giving, serving, believing,

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Speaker 1: ask or think. They came in to overflow. You may

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Speaker 1: to see God's favor in a greater way. You're going

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Speaker 1: to see your gifts and talents come out like they've

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Speaker 1: never come out before. I believe you're going to be

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Speaker 1: given supernatural opportunities that, just like a rocket, can launch

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Speaker 1: That's what the scripture says in Psalm sixty five, verse eleven.

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Speaker 1: God will crown the year with a bountiful harvest. Your

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Speaker 1: carts will overflow with abundance. That's my prayer for each

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Speaker 1: you've never seen them before. That you will come into promotion,

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Speaker 1: increase bonuses, raises even inheritances. God likes to do unusual things.

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Speaker 1: It talks about in the Bulk of Malachi. If you'll

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Speaker 1: that you cannot contain. That sounds to me like it's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be running over. After all, he's called El Shaddai,

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Speaker 1: the God who is more than enough, not Ilchipo, the

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Speaker 1: God of barely enough. Don't ever go around talking about

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Speaker 1: make it. If you have a poor mouth, you're going

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Speaker 1: so many things coming against you. But if somebody asks

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Speaker 1: He knows if all that up, don't speak defeat over

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Speaker 1: You need to start saying it. By faith. I am blessed.

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Speaker 1: I have the favor of God. Everything I touch prospers. Yes,

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Speaker 1: prices may be high, but God always supplies my needs. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the economy may be a little slow, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: going under. I'm going over. God always causes me to tryumph.

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Speaker 1: A while back, this young couple ask me to pray

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Speaker 1: purchase it. It's not about trying to make things come

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Speaker 1: the same God that can cause it to go on

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Speaker 1: And I'm all for getting good deals. I'm for being

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Speaker 1: of the paper. I'm not against any of that. But

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Speaker 1: time is valuable. Years ago, a friend of mine went

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Speaker 1: My friend drove five hours to get him, waited two

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Speaker 1: and my friend, of course he wouldn't take it, but

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Speaker 1: he thought to himself, I wish you would have just

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Speaker 1: free from that cheap spirit. You are a child of

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Speaker 1: the most high God. Your time is valuable. You are

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Speaker 1: a person of excellence. If you don't realize who you

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Speaker 1: it'll keep you from coming in to overflow. I remember

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Speaker 1: when I was growing up, just a little boy, I

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Speaker 1: was with my father and he was buying a suit,

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Speaker 1: and the man selling it to him found out that

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Speaker 1: he was a minister and kind of demeaning, almost like

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Speaker 1: we were second class. He said, well, you know, we

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Speaker 1: I could tell my father did not like that. That

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Speaker 1: so many great things in your future. If he showed

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Speaker 1: But sometimes we think, is it wrong for me to

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Speaker 1: it okay for me to believe for the funds that

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Speaker 1: my God given dreams would come to pass. God's saying

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Speaker 1: to you what he said to me. It's okay. He

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Speaker 1: takes pleasure in prospering you. He wants to give you

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Speaker 1: the desires of your heart as long as you will

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Speaker 1: keep God first place and not let those things become idols.

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Speaker 1: God will do the extraordinary. He's a running over God.

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Speaker 1: I remember back in early two thousand and four, I

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Speaker 1: had a desire to take our services on the road

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Speaker 1: and do events in other cities, and I was discussing

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Speaker 1: it with our team members, and one of them asked

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Speaker 1: what size auditorium was I thinking about? And I had

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Speaker 1: no idea if a thousand people would come or ten thousand.

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Speaker 1: We'd been on television a few years, but I'd never

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Speaker 1: been on the road. I had nothing to judge it by,

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Speaker 1: and my mind was telling me, you better get a

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Speaker 1: little amphitheater that holds about five hundred people, because nobody's

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Speaker 1: gonna show up, and you're gonna be embarrassed and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna look bad. And I had to fight that for

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Speaker 1: several days. I finally decided I wasn't gonna act in fear.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna act in doubt and unbelief. I know

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Speaker 1: God is a running over god, and so I told

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Speaker 1: our team members we need to just go ahead and

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Speaker 1: rent the basketball arenas in those cities, and it usually

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Speaker 1: holds fifteen or twenty thousand people. I figured if nobody

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Speaker 1: do it right down in front, make it look the

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Speaker 1: best we could. Well. That day came for our very

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Speaker 1: first event summer of two thousand and four in Atlanta, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: a Friday night. That day, I was so nervous hoping

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Speaker 1: somebody would show up. About two in the afternoon, I

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Speaker 1: got a call from one of our team members saying

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Speaker 1: the line to get in was already wrapped around the building.

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Speaker 1: When they opened the doors at six o'clock, the building

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Speaker 1: immediately filled up some twenty thousand people. We had to

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Speaker 1: turn thousands and thousands away. Friends. God is a running

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Speaker 1: over God. He wants to do more than you can

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Speaker 1: even ask or think. But here's the key. I had

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Speaker 1: to make room for it in my thinking. I had

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Speaker 1: to rent the building first, and then God filled it up.

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Speaker 1: Some of you, if you just make room in your

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Speaker 1: own thinking, God would do extraordinary things. If you don't

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Speaker 1: have a savings account, you need to open one up. Well,

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Speaker 1: you said, Joel, I wouldn't have anything to put in it.

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Speaker 1: Do it as an act of faith. If you open it,

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Speaker 1: God will feel it. God doesn't want any of us

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Speaker 1: to stay in barely enough or in good enough. God

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Speaker 1: wants us to come into a land of more than enough.

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Speaker 1: Put your shoulders back. Don't have a cheap mentality? Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't afford it. No, your father owns it all.

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Speaker 1: He takes pleasure in prospering you. You may not have

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Speaker 1: seen it happen in the past, but it can still happen.

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Speaker 1: Let me speak it by faith over you. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: see God's favor in a greater way. You're gonna come

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Speaker 1: across supernatural opportunities. You're gonna be at the right place

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Speaker 1: at the right time and get the right breaks. You

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Speaker 1: may not know how, but you are gonna lend and

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Speaker 1: not borrow. You're gonna leave an inheritance to your children's

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Speaker 1: children because you walk in obedience. God's blessings are gonna

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Speaker 1: chase you down and overtake you. Get ready for emotion, increases,

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Speaker 1: bonuses raises. It's headed your way. Amen, Do you receive

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Speaker 1: that today? We never like to cause our broadcast without

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Speaker 1: giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of

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Speaker 1: your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus,

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Speaker 1: come into my heart. I repent of my sins. I

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Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed

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Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get

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Speaker 1: in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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

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Speaker 2: Fear can be a powerful force, and we'll try to

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Speaker 2: make you feel alone, stuck without hope. But fear doesn't

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Speaker 2: have to get the final say there is a way out.

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Speaker 1: Fear is a powerful force, but so is faith. What

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Speaker 1: we focus on shapes our reality. In my new book,

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Speaker 1: No More Fear, you have the mind of Christ, I'll

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Speaker 1: show you how to silence fear and live boldly in

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Speaker 1: faith and confidence. Just like David said, though I walk

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Speaker 1: through the valley, I will not fear, you too can

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Speaker 1: walk through life's challenges without being paralyzed by fear. I

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Speaker 1: can't promise you you'll never feel fear, but I can

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Speaker 1: teach you how to rise above it. By dwelling on

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Speaker 1: what God says. Learning to replace the anxious thoughts with

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Speaker 1: faith filled ones, you can live from a place of peace, power,

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Speaker 1: and purpose.

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Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 2: of any amount this month, we would like to send

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Speaker 2: you a copy of Joel's book, No More Fear. You

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Speaker 2: have the mind of Christ. The Bible proclaims the Lord

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Speaker 2: is my Light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?

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Speaker 2: This powerful and practical book will help you silenced out,

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Speaker 2: fear whispers you can't.

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Speaker 1: This devotional will.

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Speaker 2: Stir your faith to declare God will. Each page reminds

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Speaker 2: you that you weren't created to live in fear or despair.

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Speaker 2: You were created to live with passion, purpose, and confidence

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Speaker 2: in God's plans for your life. Let God's word equip

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Speaker 2: you to rise above fear and walk in victory.

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Speaker 1: Fear doesn't have the final say God does. Be bold,

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Speaker 1: be strong, and step up to who He made you

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Speaker 1: to be. Be torn. I want you to know we're

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Speaker 1: praying for you and your family, believing for God's very best.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your

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Speaker 1: generosity is helping people around the world. As we finish

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Speaker 1: this year, I hope you'll consider making a special year

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Speaker 1: in gift helps to keep the ministry strong. I always

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Speaker 1: want to thank our Champion of Hope partners for your

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Speaker 1: monthly gifts. If you're not a partner, I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: consider becoming one, And until we see you next time,

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Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of Joel's new book,

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Speaker 2: also offering the God's Word Work Study collection. This empowering

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Speaker 2: More Fear devotional, the classic How to Read Your Bible

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