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Speaker 6: start with something funny. And I heard about this little girl.

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Speaker 6: She asked her mother how the human race got started,

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Speaker 6: and the mother explained how God created Adam and Eve

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Speaker 6: and now here we are confused. She went back to

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Speaker 6: her mother, said, Mom, you said God created people.

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Speaker 4: Dad said, we came from monkeys.

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Speaker 6: How can that be? Mom said, all that's easy, honey.

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Speaker 6: I told you about my side of the family. He

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

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Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 6: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 6: talked the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 6: I want to talk to you today about focusing on

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Speaker 6: the promise, not the problem. What we focus on, we magnify.

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Speaker 6: We're not changing its actual size. We're simply making it

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Speaker 6: bigger in our own mind. And if you stay focused

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Speaker 4: It's changing your perception of it.

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Speaker 6: You can take a small coin, if you hold it

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Speaker 6: You may have some things you don't like, some things

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Speaker 6: But can I tell you there's a lot right with you.

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Speaker 6: Quit magnifying what's wrong, Quit focusing on what you don't like,

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Speaker 6: said you are a masterpiece. He said you are fearfully

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Speaker 4: He said you are one of a kind.

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Speaker 6: Magnify what's right about you and not what's wrong. If

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Speaker 6: you were to get a negative medical report, you could

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Speaker 6: go home and spend six hours researching it on the internet.

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Speaker 6: Find forty three side effects to add to your worries,

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Speaker 6: and twenty seven different ways you.

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Speaker 4: Can die from it.

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Speaker 6: Then call a friend and have them tell you how

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Speaker 6: their cousin had it. He only made it four months,

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Speaker 6: All that time is becoming bigger and bigger in your mind.

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Speaker 6: Because you keep dwelling on it, giving it your attention,

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Speaker 6: It's like that little coin that's blocking the sun. My

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Speaker 6: message today is very simple. Stop focusing on the problems

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Speaker 4: All through the day.

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Speaker 6: Instead of complaining, God, you said with long life.

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Speaker 4: You would satisfy me.

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Speaker 6: You said the number of my days you would fulfill,

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Speaker 6: that I would live and not die, that you are

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Speaker 6: restoring health back into me. It takes the same amount

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Speaker 4: To believe as it does to worry.

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Speaker 6: You can go through the day thinking, man, prices are

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Speaker 6: What if I lose this client. I don't know how

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Speaker 6: I'm going to make it. You can use your energy

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Speaker 6: energy saying Father, thank you that you're supplying all of

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Speaker 6: You said you would open the windows of heaven and

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Speaker 6: pour out blessings that I could not contain. When you

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Speaker 6: magnified the promises instead of the problems, that your faith

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Speaker 6: being released. That's what allows God to go to work.

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Speaker 6: Maybe you're concerned about your children. You could go around thinking,

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Speaker 6: on the right path.

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Speaker 5: Joel.

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Speaker 6: I raised them in church. I taught them to do

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Speaker 6: what's right. I just don't understand it. Or you can say, Father,

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Speaker 6: thank you that as for me and my house, we

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Speaker 6: will serve the Lord. God you promised the seed of

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Speaker 6: the righteous will be mighty in the land. God you said,

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Speaker 6: if I'd raise my children in the fear of the Lord,

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Speaker 6: they would not depart from it. They may be off

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Speaker 6: they're coming back, that they will fulfill their destinies. If

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Speaker 6: worry will leave, doubt, fear, negativity will go, faith will

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Speaker 4: You'll know that God is still on the throne.

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Speaker 6: He's bigger than anything you're facing. What he promised he

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Speaker 6: God, you said, because I delight myself in you, you

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Speaker 4: Lord you said, no good thing.

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Speaker 4: Whatever you're believing for.

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Speaker 6: Instead of magnifying the negative, instead of worrying, find a

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Speaker 6: Let that play in your mind. God, you said you

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Speaker 6: The reason it's so important to have a promise that

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Speaker 6: Say, God, you said I would prosper and live in

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Speaker 6: I know a lady that was at odds with her

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Speaker 6: It says children will rise up and call their mother blessed.

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Speaker 6: At that time, her daughter was calling her every name

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Speaker 6: through the day, started saying, God, you said, my children

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Speaker 6: you said she's going to call me blessed. She found

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Speaker 6: other promises that she could stand on, like children are

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Speaker 6: a gift from God that are to be enjoyed, reminding

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Speaker 4: They do everything together.

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Speaker 6: Now when this mother quotes the passage, my children will

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Speaker 6: God gave him the promise that he and his wife

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Speaker 4: You said we'd see the surpassing greatness of your favor.

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Speaker 6: Make God, the smaller your problems become, the more faith

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Speaker 6: gonna get out there and get hurt. Goliath is too

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Speaker 6: big to hit. David said, no, he's too big to miss.

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Speaker 6: And David stood before Goliath and said, Goliath, you come

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Speaker 6: against me with a sword and a shield, but I

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Speaker 6: come against you in the name of the Lord, God

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Speaker 6: of Israel. Notice what he was doing, magnifying his God

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Speaker 6: at his greatness.

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Speaker 4: You know the story.

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Speaker 6: This teenage boy half his size didn't have a chance in.

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Speaker 4: The natural defeated this huge giant.

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Speaker 6: That's what happens when you magnified the promises and not

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Speaker 6: the problems. The apostle Paul said it this way, Philippians

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Speaker 6: won Do not be intimidated by your enemies.

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Speaker 4: Like David.

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Speaker 6: You may be up against a big giant right now,

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Speaker 6: a giant called an addiction, a giant of debt, a

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Speaker 6: giant of sickness. You could easily be overwhelmed. Think, oh, man,

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Speaker 6: I don't have a chance. No, don't be intimidated. The

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Speaker 6: forces that are for you are greater than the forces

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Speaker 6: that are against you. Have the right perspective the most

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Speaker 6: high God is.

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Speaker 4: On your side. I read about this little boy.

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Speaker 6: There was a big bully that lived down the street

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Speaker 6: that was always bothering him, and he was trying to

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Speaker 6: get his nerve up to go stand up to him,

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Speaker 6: but he's just too afraid, didn't have the confidence.

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Speaker 4: One day, his father bought him a new telescope.

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Speaker 6: He was in the front yard playing with it, but

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Speaker 6: he was looking through the wrong end. He was looking

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Speaker 6: through the big side. His father came out and said, O, son,

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Speaker 6: you're doing it backwards. Turn it around and it will

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Speaker 6: make everything bigger like it was designed to. He said, Dad,

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Speaker 6: I know that, but right now I'm looking at this bully,

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Speaker 6: and when I look at him this way, it makes

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Speaker 6: him so small.

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Speaker 4: That I'm not afraid of him anymore.

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Speaker 6: Maybe you need to turn the telescope around. You've magnified

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Speaker 6: that problem long enough. You've talked about how impossible it is,

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Speaker 6: how it's never going to work out. But if you'll

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Speaker 6: turn the telescope around, you'll see it from the right perspective.

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Speaker 6: You'll realize that it's nothing For our God. All he's

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Speaker 6: got to do is breathe in your direction. Your dream

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Speaker 6: coming to pass may seem impossible to you, But if

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Speaker 6: you'll turn it around, you'll realize that it just takes

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Speaker 6: one touch of God's favor, one good break, meeting one

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Speaker 6: right person, or that financial difficult that relationship issue, that

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Speaker 6: addiction may seem insurmountable, but if you'll just turn it around,

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Speaker 6: you'll see it from the perspective and realize that for

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Speaker 6: our God, it's a small thing. He parted the Red

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Speaker 6: Sea for the Israelites, He can make a way in

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Speaker 6: your life.

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Speaker 4: Which end of the telescope are you looking through.

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Speaker 6: You can't go through life focused on the negative and

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Speaker 6: how it's never going to work out.

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Speaker 4: That will keep you from God's best.

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Speaker 6: If you'll learn to focus on the promise and not

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Speaker 6: the problem, you will overcome obstacles that looked insurmountable. You'll

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Speaker 6: accomplish dreams even though you didn't have the qualifications, the resources,

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Speaker 6: the connections.

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Speaker 4: God will get you to where you're supposed to be.

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Speaker 4: This is what happened in the Scripture to a man

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Speaker 4: by the name of Zerubabel.

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Speaker 6: God gave him the promise that he would rebuild the temple,

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Speaker 6: but everything came against him.

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Speaker 4: The city leaders tried to stop him.

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Speaker 6: They hired lawyers and wouldn't give him the permits. Other

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Speaker 6: people started stirring up strife and stirring up trouble. He

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Speaker 6: couldn't hire the workers that he needed, he couldn't find

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Speaker 6: the materials.

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Speaker 4: Everywhere he turned there was trouble.

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Speaker 6: It looked impossible, and he could have stayed focused on

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Speaker 6: the opposition and how much more powerful they were, giving

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Speaker 6: up and gone home. God, I wanted to do it.

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Speaker 6: I had good intentions. They were just too big. No,

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Speaker 6: he said in Zachariah, for who are you, o great

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Speaker 6: mountain that stands before me? You shall become a mere

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Speaker 6: mole hill, and I will finish the temple.

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Speaker 4: Notice his attitude not as too big. I can't do

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Speaker 4: this now, he said.

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Speaker 6: You may be a mountain right now, but I know

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Speaker 6: a secret. I've got my telescope turned around. I can

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Speaker 6: already see through my eyes of faith. It's just a

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Speaker 6: matter of time before you flatten out and become a

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Speaker 6: mole hill.

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Speaker 4: I will complete this project. I've learned.

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Speaker 6: If you don't talk to your mountains, your mountains will

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Speaker 6: talk to you. Don't complain about how big the problem is.

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Speaker 6: Do like he did, Tell that mountain, you're about to

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Speaker 6: become a mole hill. Like David, Tell that giant this day,

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Speaker 6: I will defeat you. You can't talk, defee and expect

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Speaker 6: to have victory. And what you're facing today may look big.

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Speaker 6: I'm not asking you to deny it. I am asking

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Speaker 6: you to turn the telescope around and see it from

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Speaker 6: God's point of view. Have the right perspective. It's no

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Speaker 6: match for you.

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Speaker 4: You are a child of the most high God. You

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Speaker 4: have the most powerful.

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Speaker 6: Force in the universe breathing in your direction right now.

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Speaker 6: Don't stay focused on the opposition, how impossible it looks.

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Speaker 4: Do what Abraham did.

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Speaker 6: Consider not the negative circumstances and start considering your God.

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Speaker 6: Remind him what he said all through the day. Let

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Speaker 6: his promises keep playing in your mind. And God, you

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Speaker 6: said I'm blessed, you said I'm strong, you said I'm healthy,

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Speaker 6: you said I'm highly favored.

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Speaker 4: You said my best days.

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Speaker 6: Are still out in front of me. Remember it takes

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Speaker 6: the same amount of energy to believe.

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Speaker 4: As it does to worry.

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Speaker 6: If you'll learn to focus on the promises and not

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Speaker 6: the problems, then I believe and declare.

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Speaker 4: Like David, you will defeat your giants.

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Speaker 6: Like Zaruba Bell you will accomplish your dreams, and like Abraham.

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Speaker 4: What God promised you, he will bring to past.

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Speaker 6: You will become everything He's created you to be, and

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Speaker 6: you will have everything He intended for you to have.

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Speaker 6: In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say

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