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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 minis Strength. If

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

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Speaker 1: and share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray

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

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by

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Speaker 1: and be a part of one of our services. These

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Speaker 1: are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas right

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Speaker 1: here at Lakewood. We'd love to have you be apartment.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in to day. I like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about these three men

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Speaker 1: that were out in the wilderness. They came upon this violent,

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Speaker 1: raging river. They needed to get to the other side.

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Speaker 1: The first man prayed, God, please give me the strength

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Speaker 1: to make it across, and poof, God gave them big

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Speaker 1: in two hours. The next man prayed, God, please give

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Speaker 1: and poof, God gave him a boat. He was able

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Speaker 1: to row across in thirty minutes. The third man prayed, God,

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Speaker 1: please give me the strength, the tools and the intelligence

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Speaker 1: to make it across, and poof God turned him into

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Speaker 1: a woman. She looked at the map hight five minutes

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Speaker 1: up the stream and walked across the bridge, and yes,

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Speaker 1: that was sent to me by a woman. But here

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Speaker 1: we go. This is my Bible. I am what it

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

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

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about don't settle

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Speaker 1: for less. All of us have dreams that were believing

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Speaker 1: for and promises that God has spoken to us. At

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Speaker 1: one time, we were excited about them. But too often,

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Speaker 1: when it's taken longer than we thought, because our health

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Speaker 1: hasn't improved, we didn't get the promotion, our child isn't

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Speaker 1: making good decisions, we get discouraged and quit believing for

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Speaker 1: the fullness of what's in our heart. It's easy to

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Speaker 1: water down what God's promised us. I don't like this job,

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Speaker 1: but at least I'm employed, is good enough. I was

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Speaker 1: believing for a nice house, but I guess this apartment

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Speaker 1: learned to live with this sickness. I guess I'm at

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Speaker 1: least okay. No, okay is not who you were created

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Speaker 1: to be. Good Enough is not what God promised you.

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Speaker 1: The enemy can't stop God's plan for your life, but

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Speaker 1: he'll do his best to convince you to settle along

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Speaker 1: the way. If you're going to become all you were

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Speaker 1: your spirit. There has to be a holy determination, a

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Speaker 1: resolve that says, I refuse to for less than what

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Speaker 1: God's promised me. You have to make up your mind.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to be talked out of it. You're

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Speaker 1: not going to water it down. You're not going to

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Speaker 1: let good enough be good enough. It may be taken

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Speaker 1: longer than you thought, it may be more difficult. The

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Speaker 1: good news is it's not too late. You haven't missed

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Speaker 1: your chance. What God promised you is still on the way.

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Speaker 1: Not a watered down version, not a partial healing, not

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Speaker 1: a make do promotion, not a good enough marriage. Know

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Speaker 1: exactly what God promised you, what you were excited about

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Speaker 1: God doesn't abort a dream, he doesn't get talked out

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Speaker 1: of what he's promised. He doesn't water down what he's

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Speaker 1: spoken to us. Now. Maybe the reason you're not seeing

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Speaker 1: this favor is you settled. You've accepted that your dream's

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Speaker 1: not going to happen. You'll never get well, you'll never

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Speaker 1: it will limit your life. I'm asking you to pull

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Speaker 1: up your stakes, pack up your belongings. Mediocrity is not

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Speaker 1: your home. Good enough is not your destiny. Getting by

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Speaker 1: is not where you belong. You may be there now,

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Speaker 1: but that is not your permanent location. Don't settle for

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Speaker 1: we should be content, but you shouldn't be satisfied with

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Speaker 1: less than what you know God put in your heart.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes, instead of stirring our faith up and believing

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Speaker 1: I'll never reach my dreams, but hey, I'm doing as

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Speaker 1: good as my coworker. That's not too bad. Instead of

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Speaker 1: justifying it moving that goalpost to fit what you think

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Speaker 1: And said, God, I don't see how this can work out.

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Speaker 1: But God, I know you wouldn't have promised it if

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Speaker 1: you weren't going to bring it to pass. I know

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Speaker 1: you have a way where I don't see away. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna settle here. I'm gonna keep believing. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna keep dreaming. I'm gonna keep stretching my faith. That's

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Speaker 1: what allows God to do great things. Genesis fifteen, God

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Speaker 1: told Abraham he was going to have a son. The

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Speaker 1: problem was Abraham was seventy five years old, his wife,

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Speaker 1: Sarah was sixty five. They'd never had children. She'd been

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Speaker 1: bearing all these years. Now she had gone through the

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Speaker 1: change of life. It was impossible in the natural. Year

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Speaker 1: after year when by no sign of a baby, every

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Speaker 1: thought told them you're wasting your time. You're both way

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Speaker 1: too old. It's never going to happen. Sarah finally told

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Speaker 1: Abraham to sleep with her maid. She thought that's the

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Speaker 1: only way they could have a baby. It seemed so impossible.

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Speaker 1: She watered down the promise. She reduced it to what

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Speaker 1: she thought could happen. Many times we do like Sarah.

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Speaker 1: When God speaks something to us. Instead of coming up

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Speaker 1: to his level, believing for the unusual, the uncommon, the extraordinary,

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Speaker 1: worried that the compact center was coming available and the

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Speaker 1: my spirit, my mind said, there's no way we'll get

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Speaker 1: the building. It's too expensive. The city will never let

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Speaker 1: that church have it. I was tempted to water it down.

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Speaker 1: Voices whisper Joel, come back to your senses. Don't get

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Speaker 1: your hopes up. It's never going to happen. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to get talked out of the great things God has

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Speaker 1: your spirit that don't make sense to your mind. Sarah,

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Speaker 1: you can't have a baby at eighty Joel, you'll never

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Speaker 1: get the basketball arena, Dody. You'll never beat terminal cancer.

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Speaker 1: Just accept it. You'll never write your book, never start

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Speaker 1: your business, never build that children's home you're dreaming about.

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Speaker 1: You don't have the resources. You may not, but God does.

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Speaker 1: He's not asking you to figure it out. He's asking

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Speaker 1: of him? Well, Joel, I can't think of any good

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Speaker 1: reason to get my hopes up. Seems so unlikely, so impossible.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you one great reason, and the most

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Speaker 1: high God is on your side. He is breathing in

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Speaker 1: your direction right now. You wouldn't be hearing this if

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Speaker 1: he wasn't about to do something unusual, uncommon, something that

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Speaker 1: you didn't see coming. You can't explain it. It didn't

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Speaker 1: make sense. People will scratch their hands, thinking, how did

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Speaker 1: you beat the sickness? I saw the medical report? How

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Speaker 1: did your business take off so fast? You didn't have

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Speaker 1: the connections know But you have the fevor of God.

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Speaker 1: You have his blessing on your life. What He's promised

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Speaker 1: you will come to pass. Not a water down version,

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Speaker 1: Get ready for the fullness of what God said. Make

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Speaker 1: room in your thinking for the abundant, overflowing, more than

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Speaker 1: enough life that belongs to you. The mistake Sarah made

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Speaker 1: is she reduced what God to what she thought could happen. Abraham,

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Speaker 1: I'm eighty years old. Surely God didn't mean I would

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Speaker 1: can have a baby with her, and we'll call that

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Speaker 1: child our own. Now, you don't have to take up

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Speaker 1: for God. You don't have to try to make sure

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Speaker 1: Let me help God make this happen. God doesn't need

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Speaker 1: that kind of help. He flung stars into space, he

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Speaker 1: how to turn your situation around, and how to bring

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Speaker 1: new door for your business. Don't reduce it to what

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Speaker 1: agreement with him. God, this seems impossible to me, but

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Speaker 1: it in the natural, but I know you're a supernatural God.

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Speaker 1: When the three Hebrew teenagers were about to be thrown

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Speaker 1: their lives. But in a little while the king came

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Speaker 1: looks like the Son of God. Here's my point. You

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Speaker 1: you've worked hard, you prayed, you believe, but it seems

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Speaker 1: not limited by what's limiting us. Now. I believe today

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Speaker 1: that addiction that's held you back, the sickness, the financial difficulties,

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Speaker 1: the trouble at work. This is a new day. The

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Speaker 1: Hebrew teenagers. You're going to come out not bound, but loosed, free, healed, promoted,

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Speaker 1: vindicated with that dream you'll believe in for now, start

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Speaker 1: seeing yourself free, See yourself breaking the addictions, See yourself

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Speaker 1: rising to new levels, fulfilling your purpose. Your hands are

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Speaker 1: not tied anymore. God is releasing you into new levels

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Speaker 1: of your destiny. Abraham slept with Sarah's maid, and they

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Speaker 1: had a son that they named Ishmael. And they love Ishmael.

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Speaker 1: They were happy to have him, but he was not

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Speaker 1: the promised child. No disrespect to him. But Ishmael represents

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Speaker 1: a spirit of good enough. This is not what I

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Speaker 1: was believing for, but is close. Is good enough. I'm

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Speaker 1: not completely well, but at least I'm better. That's good enough.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping for. That management position didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: This other job is good enough. You don't have to settle.

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Speaker 1: God is not going to give you a substitute blessing.

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Speaker 1: He's not into counterfeits, he's not into making do He

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Speaker 1: has the real thing coming now. You may have some

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Speaker 1: good enough areas in your life, but don't stop there.

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Speaker 1: Don't let that spirit of good enough cause you to

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Speaker 1: be satisfied. You have to keep stretching, keep believing for

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Speaker 1: the fullness of what God promised. Twenty five years after

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Speaker 1: Ishmael was now thirteen years old. God came to him

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Speaker 1: again and said, in Genesis thirteen, Abraham, Sarah is going

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Speaker 1: to bear you a child. When Abraham heard this, the

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Speaker 1: scripture says he fell down, laughing, saying, God, I'm one

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Speaker 1: Life has a way of wearing us down physically, mentally, emotionally.

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Speaker 1: You were created to be strong, to be passionate, to live, happy,

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Speaker 1: God is going to restore what the enemy tried to steal.

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Speaker 1: If you're a pastor, we'd like to invite you to

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