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

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Speaker 2: Supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 1: We believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's always a joy to come into

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

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

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Speaker 1: for coming out today. And I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about this little girl. She

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Speaker 1: asked her mother how the human race got started. The

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Speaker 1: mother explained how God created Adam and Eve and they

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Speaker 1: had children and on and on. Here we are today.

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Speaker 1: A few days later, she asked her father the same question.

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Speaker 1: He explained, how many years ago there were monkeys. Little

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Speaker 1: by little they became more like people, and now here

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Speaker 1: we are confused. She went back to her mother, said, Mom,

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Speaker 1: you said God created people.

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Speaker 2: Dad said, we came from monkeys. How can that be?

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Speaker 1: Mom said, oh, that's easy, honey, I told you about

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Speaker 1: my side of the family.

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Speaker 2: He told you about his Hold up your Bible, say

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Speaker 2: it like you mean it.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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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 focusing on the promise,

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Speaker 1: not the problem. What we focus on, we magnify. We're

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Speaker 1: not changing its actual size. We're simply making it bigger

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Speaker 1: in our own mind. And if you stay focused on

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Speaker 1: your problems, on a negative medical report, on what somebody

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Speaker 1: said about you, on how you'll never get out of debt,

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Speaker 1: all that's going to do is make it bigger than

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Speaker 1: it really is. It's changing your perception of it. You

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Speaker 1: can take a small coin. If you hold it up

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Speaker 1: close enough to your eye, eventually it will block the sun.

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Speaker 1: That coin, even though it's billions and trillions of times smaller,

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Speaker 1: because you've got it so close, it's distorting your perspective.

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Speaker 2: It looks bigger than this huge object.

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Speaker 1: In the same way, if you stay focused on something

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Speaker 1: that you don't like about yourself. I'm too short, I

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Speaker 1: don't like my nose. I wish I had more hair,

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Speaker 1: I wish my voice wasn't so high. If you stay

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Speaker 1: focused on those things, it will block the amazing future

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Speaker 1: God has in store. You may have some things you

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Speaker 1: don't like, some things you consider are wrong with you.

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Speaker 2: We all do.

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Speaker 1: But can I tell you there's a lot right with you.

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Speaker 1: Quit magnifying what's wrong, Quit focusing on what you don't like,

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Speaker 1: and start focusing on what God said about you. God

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Speaker 1: said you are a masterpiece. He said you are fearfully

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Speaker 1: and wonderfully made.

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Speaker 2: He said you are one of a kind.

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Speaker 1: You have the right looks, the right personality, the gifts

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Speaker 1: that you need for the race that's designed for you.

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Speaker 1: Magnify what's right about you and not what's wrong. If

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Speaker 1: you were to get a negative medical report, you could

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Speaker 1: go home and spend six hours researching it on the internet.

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Speaker 1: Find forty three side effects to add to your worries,

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Speaker 1: and twenty seven different ways you can die from it.

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Speaker 1: Then call a friend and have them tell you how

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Speaker 1: their cousin had it and he only made it four months.

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Speaker 1: Their next door neighbor he got chills in twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: All that time is becoming bigger and bigger in your mind.

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Speaker 1: The actual size hasn't changed, But because you keep dwelling

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Speaker 1: It's like that little coin that's blocking the sun. My

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Speaker 1: message today is very simple. Stop focusing on the problems

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Speaker 1: and start focusing on the promises all through the day.

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Speaker 1: Instead of complaining, God, you said with long life you

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Speaker 1: that you are restoring health back into me. It takes

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Speaker 1: I don't get the promotion, what if I don't get

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Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm going to make it.

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Speaker 1: You could use your energy to worry like that, or

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Speaker 1: that you're supplying all of my needs. You said you'd

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Speaker 1: the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that I

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Speaker 1: the problems, that your faith being released. That's what allows

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Speaker 1: God to go to work. Maybe you're concerned about your children.

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Speaker 1: ever going to get back on the right path. Joel,

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Speaker 1: I raised them in church them to do what's right.

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand it. Or you can say, Father,

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Speaker 1: You said, if I'd raise my children in the fear

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Speaker 1: may be off course temporarily, but Lord, I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you that they're coming back, that they will fulfill

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Speaker 1: their destinies. If you'll change your focus from the problem

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Speaker 1: faith will rise up.

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Speaker 2: You'll know that God is still on the throne.

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Speaker 1: He's bigger than anything. You're facing. What he promised he

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Speaker 1: to get married, don't go around thinking I'll never meet

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Speaker 1: God, you said, because I delight myself in you, you

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Speaker 1: they show up. Whatever you're believing for. Instead of magnifying

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Speaker 1: the negative, instead of worrying, find a promise that you

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Speaker 1: store for the upright. You said, your favor surrounds me

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Speaker 1: So important to have a promise that you can focus

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Speaker 1: you said, I would prosper and live in good health. God,

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Speaker 1: you said, you always caused me to triumph. God you said,

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Speaker 1: When God hears his promises coming out of your mouth,

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Speaker 1: he says to the angels, go to work, get busy,

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Speaker 2: God is faithful to his word.

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Speaker 1: I know a lady that was at odds with her

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Speaker 1: And one day I told her what I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: I gave her the scripture from Proverbs thirty one. It

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Speaker 1: At that time, her daughter was calling her every name

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Speaker 1: you said, she's going to call me blessed. She found

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Speaker 1: other promises that she could stand on, like children are

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Speaker 1: years later this daughter had a total change of heart.

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Speaker 1: Today she's as kind and respectful as can be. She

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Speaker 1: Now when this mother quotes the passage, my children will

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Speaker 2: It's become a reality.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when you focus on the promise and

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Speaker 1: not the problem. And this is what Abraham did when

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Speaker 1: God gave him the promise that he and his wife

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Speaker 2: They were both way too old in the natural it

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Speaker 1: But Roman's Four says Abraham considered not the weakness of

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Speaker 2: It's not going to happen. He didn't get on.

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Speaker 1: there's faith. Abraham did this same thing that I'm asking

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Speaker 1: not going to use my energy to worry, going to

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Speaker 2: Promised I'm going to have a child.

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Speaker 1: God, you said I would be the father of many nations.

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Speaker 1: You said God that my descendants would be as numerous

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Speaker 1: as the stars in the sky. God, it looks impossible

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Speaker 1: He kept focusing on the promise reminding God what he said.

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Speaker 1: That promise became bigger and bigger in his mind. He

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Speaker 1: became fully persuaded. Where doubt, fear, negativity didn't have a chance,

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Speaker 1: Faith rose up sure enough against all odds. When they

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Speaker 1: were nearly one hundred years old, they had that baby.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to see your dreams come to pass,

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Speaker 1: if you're going to see those promises fulfilled, there will

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Speaker 1: be times, like with Abraham, you have to consider not

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Speaker 1: your negative circumstances. You may have to consider not a

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Speaker 1: medical report. Doctors do the best they can with the

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Speaker 1: knowledge that they have, but there comes a point sometimes,

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Speaker 1: like with my mom, doctors run out of options. There's

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Speaker 2: For our God it's a small thing.

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Speaker 1: He parted the Red Sea for the Israelites, He can

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Speaker 1: make a way in your life.

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Speaker 2: Which end of the telescope are you looking through.

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Speaker 1: You can't go through life focused on the negative and

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Speaker 1: how it's never going to work out.

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Speaker 2: That will keep you from God's best.

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Speaker 1: If you'll learn to focus on the promise and not

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Speaker 1: the problem, you will overcome obstacles that looked insurmountable. You'll

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Speaker 1: accomplish dreams even though you didn't have the qualifications, the resources,

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Speaker 1: the connections. God will get you to where you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be. This is what happened in the Scripture to

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Speaker 1: a man by the name of Zerubabel. God gave him

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Speaker 1: the promise that he would rebuild the temple, but everything

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Speaker 1: came against him.

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Speaker 2: The city leaders.

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Speaker 1: Tried to stop him. They hired lawyers and wouldn't give

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Speaker 1: him the permits. Other people started stirring up strife and

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Speaker 1: stirring up trouble. He couldn't hire the workers that he needed,

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Speaker 1: he couldn't find the materials. Everywhere he turned there was trouble.

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Speaker 1: It looked impossible. Now he could have stayed focused on

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Speaker 1: the opposition and how much more powerful they were, giving

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Speaker 1: up and gone home.

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Speaker 2: God.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to do it. I had good intentions. They

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Speaker 1: were just too big.

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Speaker 2: No, he said in Zachariah, for who are you, o,

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Speaker 2: great mountain that stands before me.

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Speaker 1: You shall become a mere mole hill, and I will

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Speaker 1: finish the temple.

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Speaker 2: Notice his attitude not as too big.

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Speaker 1: I can't do this, No, he said, you may be

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Speaker 1: a mountain right now, but I know a secret. I've

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Speaker 1: got my telescope turned around. I can already see through

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Speaker 1: my eyes of faith. It's just a matter of time

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Speaker 1: before you flatten out and become a mole hill.

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Speaker 2: I will complete this project. I've learned.

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Speaker 1: If you don't talk to your mountains, your mountains will

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Speaker 1: talk to you. Don't complain about how big the problem is.

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Speaker 2: Do like he did.

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Speaker 1: Tell that mountain, you're about to become a mole hill.

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Speaker 1: Like David, tell that giant. This day, I will defeat you.

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Speaker 1: You can't talk, defee and expect to have victory. What

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Speaker 1: you're facing today may look big. I'm not asking you

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Speaker 1: to deny it. I am asking you to turn the

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Speaker 1: telescope around and see it from God's point of view.

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Speaker 1: Have the right perspective. It's no match for you.

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Speaker 2: You are a child of the most high God.

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Speaker 1: You have the most powerful force in the universe breathing

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Speaker 1: in your direction right now. Don't stay focused on the opposition,

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Speaker 1: how impossible it looks. Do what Abraham did, Consider not

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Speaker 1: the negative circumstances, and start considering your God. Remind him

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Speaker 1: what he said all through the day. Let his promises

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Speaker 1: keep playing in your mind. God, you said, I'm blessed.

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Speaker 1: You said I'm strong, you said I'm healthy, you said

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Speaker 1: I'm highly favored. You said my best days are still

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Speaker 1: out in front of me. Remember, it takes the same

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Speaker 1: amount of energy to believe.

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Speaker 2: As it does to worry.

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Speaker 1: If you'll learn to focus on the promises and not

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Speaker 1: the problems, then I believe and declare.

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Speaker 2: Like David, you will defeat your giants.

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Speaker 1: Like Zarube Bell, you will accomplish your dreams, and like Abraham,

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Speaker 1: what God promised you, he will bring the past.

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Speaker 2: You will become everything He's.

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Speaker 1: Created you to be, and you will have everything he

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Speaker 1: intended for you to have in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: If you receive it, can you say it?

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Speaker 3: Men?

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Speaker 1: Today, we never like to close our broadcast without giving

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Speaker 1: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 2: you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 1: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, I believe you

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Speaker 1: got born again, get in a good Bible based church.

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Speaker 2: God's going to take your places that you've never dreamed.

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Speaker 3: What if what you imagine came to pass? What if

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Speaker 3: what you asked for turned out greater than what you

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Speaker 3: can see. What if you could plan for God's best

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Speaker 3: in your life.

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Speaker 1: We all have hopes and dreams and things we're believing for,

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Speaker 1: but what God has in store for you is more

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Speaker 1: than you can imagine. When you start the year off

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Speaker 1: in faith, believing for greater things, that's when God will

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Speaker 1: exceed your expectations. We love to send you are twenty

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Speaker 4: It is so important to feed yourself out and faith

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Speaker 4: but it's filled with inspiration and scripture to help you

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Speaker 4: in your heart.

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Speaker 1: He sees your faithfulness, how you being your best each day.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see the goodness of God in new

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Speaker 1: We pray for you every day for God's very best,

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