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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victorian. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. Don't forget I have a new book out,

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Speaker 1: Fifteen Ways to Live Longer and Healthier. I think you'll

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Speaker 1: be blessed and encouraged by it. We love you so

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Speaker 1: much and we hope you enjoy the message. Well, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes

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Speaker 1: and you're ever in our area. Please stop by and

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 1: you will make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in, and thank you again for

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Speaker 1: coming out today. I like to start with something funny

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Speaker 1: and I heard about this old country farmer. He was

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Speaker 1: taking his nephew camping for the first time. His nephew

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Speaker 1: had five degrees, was one of the smartest men alive.

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Speaker 1: They set up their tent and quickly fell asleep. In

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Speaker 1: the middle of the night, the farmer woke up. His

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Speaker 1: nephew said, look up. What are you see? Nephew said,

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Speaker 1: I see millions of stars. Farmer said I know that,

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Speaker 1: But what does it tell you? He said? Astronomically, it

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Speaker 1: tells me there are billions of galaxies. Meteorologically, it tells

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Speaker 1: me it's going to be a beautiful day. Theologically, it

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Speaker 1: tells me God is a great creator. What does it

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Speaker 1: tell you? The old farmer shook his head, said, it

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Speaker 1: tells me somebody stole our tent. Hold up your bible,

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

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Speaker 1: I am what it says. I am. I have what

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

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about praying God sized prayers. How you pray will determine

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Speaker 1: what kind of life you live. If you only pray small, ordinary,

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Speaker 1: get by prayers, most likely you will live a small, ordinary,

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Speaker 1: ask God for big things, you ask him to open

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Speaker 1: doors that would normally not open. You ask him to

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Speaker 1: take you further than anyone in your family. When you

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Speaker 1: pray God sized prayers, you will see the greatness of

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Speaker 1: God's power. All through the Scripture we see this principle.

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Speaker 1: Elisha prayed that it wouldn't rain. For three and a

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Speaker 1: half years, there was no rain. Joshua, we prayed for

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Speaker 1: more daylight. God stopped the sun. One prophet prayed for protection.

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Speaker 1: The enemies standing right in front of him didn't recognize him.

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Speaker 1: God made him invisible. The common denominator is they ask

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Speaker 1: for the unthinkable. When was the last time you asked

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Speaker 1: God to do something impossible, something out of the ordinary.

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Speaker 1: One reason we don't see God do great things is

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Speaker 1: we only ask for small things. Most people pray over

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Speaker 1: their food, pray for protection, pray for wisdom. That's all good,

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Speaker 1: but it's limiting what God can do. There should be

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Speaker 1: something you're praying about, that you're asking for that seems

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Speaker 1: The phrase I hear in my spirit is dare to

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Speaker 1: ask Your dreams may look impossible. You don't have the

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Speaker 1: funding the connections. God is saying, I dare you to

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Speaker 1: ask me to bring it to pass. I dare you

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Speaker 1: to ask me to show you a flood of my favor.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times we pray God, child's off course,

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Speaker 1: if you'll just turn him around, And that's good, But

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Speaker 1: that's an ordinary prayer. Ordinary prayers get ordinary results. God

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Speaker 1: meets us at the level of our faith. If you

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Speaker 1: ask small, you're going to receive small. A God size

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Speaker 1: prayer is God, I'm asking you to not only turn

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Speaker 1: my child around, but use him in a great way.

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Speaker 1: Let him make a difference with his life. An ordinary

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Speaker 1: pay somebody else's house off. An ordinary prayer is God,

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Speaker 1: just take me as far as my parents. God help

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Speaker 1: me at least not to lose any ground. But a

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Speaker 1: God size prayer is God, help me to take our

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Speaker 1: When people look back one hundred years from now, God,

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Speaker 1: You have not because you ask not. If you're not

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not talking about just making a wish list

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Speaker 1: for what He's already promised you. The scripture says, when

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Speaker 1: With long life. God will satisfy you. As for me

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Speaker 1: and my house, we will serve the Lord. There are

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Speaker 1: hundreds of promises that you have every right to pray

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Speaker 1: specific dreams, desires that God's placed in your heart. They

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Speaker 1: didn't just randomly show up. The creator of the universe

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Speaker 1: divine destiny. In Psalms that talks about the secret petitions

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Speaker 1: anybody about. One way you know that from God is

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Speaker 1: they're so big you cannot accomplish them on your own.

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Speaker 1: God does this on purpose so that it will take faith.

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Speaker 1: Faith is what please God. Faith is what allows him

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Speaker 1: to do the impossible. So God will put something big

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Speaker 1: well you don't have all the talent, the education, the connections,

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Speaker 1: can't overcome on our own. We can do one of

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Speaker 1: two things. We can think, well, too bad didn't work

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Speaker 1: We can talk ourselves out of it. Or we can say, God,

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Speaker 1: know you are all powerful. There's no limit to you.

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Speaker 1: So God, I'm asking you to make a way, even

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Speaker 1: though I don't see away. This is what David did

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Speaker 1: first Chronicles seventeen. God gave him the promise that one

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Speaker 1: David understood this principle. Even though it looked far out,

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Speaker 1: he didn't dismiss it. He said in verse twenty three, God,

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Speaker 1: enough to pray this prayer because you have spoken it

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Speaker 1: may look impossible. But if you'll just dare, do like

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Speaker 1: enough to ask you for it. When you do, don't

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Speaker 1: when you start asking God for big things. He'll leave

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Speaker 1: you alone as long as you pray small, ordinary prayers.

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Speaker 1: But when you start praying god decighest prayers, you start

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Speaker 1: asking God to take you where you've never been before,

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Speaker 1: that's when those thoughts will bombarde your mind, saying who

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Speaker 1: do you think you are? Just smile and tell him

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Speaker 1: this seven year old girl named Jamie. She lived on

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Speaker 1: already told the family that they weren't going to keep

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Speaker 1: After a couple weeks she wore her father down. He said, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: gonna give him away. She agreed. Well, little Jamie didn't

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Speaker 1: any doubt that he belongs to me. Now, most of

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Speaker 1: us adults, we never pray anything like that. That's far out,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of radical. Do you know what I've learned?

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Speaker 1: Radical faith gets radical results. A couple of weeks later,

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Speaker 1: was a big jay. Her name was Jamie. It's like

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Speaker 1: God stamped at ja. He was saying, I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: I saying? When you pray God sized prayers, God will

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Speaker 1: desires of your heart. Are there dreams that you've talked

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Speaker 1: to yourself out of problems you'll convince you'll never overcome.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you do like little Jamie take the limits

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty two, it is the Father's good pleasure to

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Speaker 1: desires of your heart, but you have to have the

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Speaker 1: As a father, who would I rather bless than my

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Speaker 1: own children? Who would I rather see increase and do

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Speaker 1: same way with our heavenly Father. It gives him pleasure

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Speaker 1: his face. But what if my chi children never ask,

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Speaker 1: That would make me feel badly. I'd say, come on,

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Speaker 1: to step up to the plate. Quit asking small, Quit

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Speaker 1: acting like you're bothering God. Quit praying weak barely get

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Speaker 1: by prayers. Your father owns it all. He created the

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Speaker 1: of what he has in store, you got to learn

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Speaker 1: to ask big. I pray every day, God take our

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Speaker 1: ministry where no ministry's ever gone before. I pray God,

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Speaker 1: let our children supersede anything Victoria or I have ever done.

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Speaker 1: There are prayers that I pray in private, never told

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Speaker 1: anybody in the world the secret dreams of my heart.

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Speaker 1: If I told you, you say, Joel, are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: Do you really think that's going to happen? The truth

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Speaker 1: is they may not all come to pass, But I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to let my lack of asking keep me

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Speaker 1: from reaching my highest potential. I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: to heaven and God, say, Joe, I had all this

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Speaker 1: for you, favor, good breaks, divine connections, but you never ask.

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Speaker 1: You stayed in the safe zone. I wanted you in

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Speaker 1: the faith zone. You prayed ordinary prayers. I wanted you

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Speaker 1: to pray God size prayers. And I believe one reason

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Speaker 1: that I've seen God's favor is I have learned to

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Speaker 1: ask big. When my father went to be with the

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Speaker 1: saying today? When you pray God sized prayers, God will

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Speaker 1: for small things. God is saying, ask me to open

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Speaker 1: in the scripture. Now I will be bold enough to ask.

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Speaker 1: Remember there are blessings stored up for you right now

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Speaker 1: to pray God's size prayers, then like Victor's mom, you

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Speaker 1: this pastor. The right people will show up at the

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Speaker 1: right time, like little Jamie. God will give you the

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Speaker 1: you to be in Jesus' name, receive it. Can you

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Speaker 1: say amen? Today? And we never like to close our

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

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

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Speaker 2: Sometimes life can make you feel like you are just

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Speaker 2: living in the dark. Even your prayers don't feel like

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Speaker 1: We know God is all powerful that he can answer

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Speaker 1: We don't think we deserve God's goodness. Maybe we're inconveniencing him,

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