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How to Overcome Challenges Without Losing Your Faith · Success by the Book

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Success by the Book Podcast, the place where Christians who want to experience the extravagant goodness of God in all areas of their lives come from mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Inan, and I'll be unpacking the secrets I have learned from the Word of God over the last two decades.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's dive in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isaiah chapter 60, verse 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can put this in the New King James Version.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: The word of God is powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it says, But it says, But the Lord will arise over you, and his glory will be seen upon you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So every time you see darkness over the earth, you should be thinking the glory of God over me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every time you see you hear bad news, you should be thinking, But the glory of the Lord is risen upon me because these two programs will run at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you get to choose which program you will run in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So are you running in A or in B?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you the darkness camp or are you the glory camp?
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  SPEAKER_00: Which camp are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Which camp are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you see the darkness, what do you say?
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  SPEAKER_00: But the glory of the Lord is risen upon me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now if you go to verse one, you'll find out that you have a responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is your responsibility?
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  SPEAKER_00: It says arise, it says shine.
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  SPEAKER_00: God will not make you arise.
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  SPEAKER_00: God will not make you shine.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say I will do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say I will play my part.
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  SPEAKER_00: Arise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I really hope that you walk away with a holy anger with the state of things in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not greed, but from a standpoint of there is more, and I'll reach out and take it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you guys here?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's more.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going forward, I'm making progress, I'm rising.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you look at this in the Amplified Classic, it breaks it down a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So take a take a look.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amplified Classic.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, Arise from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rise to a new life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rise.
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  SPEAKER_00: So turn to the person next to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say, this is the least I will ever be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say, take a look now.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the last time you will see me the way I am right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you believe that, say amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, shine, be radiant with the glory of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Your light has come.
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  SPEAKER_00: The light has come, but whose choice is it to shine or not?
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  SPEAKER_00: Say mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So will you shine?
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  SPEAKER_00: Will you choose to live a life that displays the glory of God?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm gonna break all of this down, but I want to set the framework.
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  SPEAKER_00: So verse 1, verse 2, it says there's darkness, it's gonna be over the earth, it's gonna be over the people, but the glory will be risen on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 1, it shows us our part.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is my part?
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  SPEAKER_00: My part is to arise, my part is to shine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So sitting and saying, Oh, you know what happened yesterday, you know, like all of those things are gone because we are called to arise, we're called to shine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I want you to see verse three.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse three, so you can see the result.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has a plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I do my part, this is what happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, um, you can put you can go back to New King James.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: New King James, it says, and Gentiles will come to your light.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is looking for people who will be billboards that when people see them, they come to Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So back in the day there were Jews and Gentiles.
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  SPEAKER_00: You were either part of the kingdom of God, but well, the covenant of God, the family of God, or you were not.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're a Jew or you're Gentile.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in our day, this will be the unsaved.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're people who don't know Jesus, they will come to your light.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your shining is an evangelistic tool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, and kings will come to the brightness of your rising.
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  SPEAKER_00: How many of you want to attract kings?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the formula.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the formula.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will come in the midst of the darkness to the brightness of your rising.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell the person next to you, I must rise, I will rise.
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  SPEAKER_00: I cannot stay in the same spot.
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  SPEAKER_00: God had no intention of making you a hidden person.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Matthew 5 14, he says, You are the light of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the light of the world, a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what he says about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go to the next verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go to the next verse, verse 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that what you do in your house?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you light and then put under?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, you don't hide it.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has no intentions of hiding you either.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a part we have to play.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has no intentions.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants to use us to showcase his goodness, his power, his glory, his character, his splendor, his wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't put you under a basket, but he puts you on a lampstand to give light to all who are in the house, to give light to all who are in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world is waiting for you to manifest.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world is waiting on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the result of all of this is the name of God is glorified.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let me ask you a question.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God wants to use you as a mannequin to show off how good He is, do you think your plan for your life is better than His plan?
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  SPEAKER_00: So tell the person next to you get with the plan, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: God will take you to any height.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's just your job is to make sure the light you're showing off is his light.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has no problem taking you to any height.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when we read this, we don't fully get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to give you an example from the Old Testament of somebody who lived in this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: But who is God's strategy?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is God's strategy?
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  SPEAKER_00: God's strategy is you, you're his strategy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Daniel chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Daniel is somebody who walked in this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when we read about Daniel, Daniel was not in Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Daniel was in Babylon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Babylon is like the headquarters, was the headquarters of sin and idolatry and everything you can imagine from the kingdom of darkness at that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was in a very dark place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you guys with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is where he was, and he lived out Isaiah chapter 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's take a look.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, let's start from verse 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Daniel chapter 1, 17, pay close attention to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, God gave these four young men.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wish I could read the whole story to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let me set the stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were in Israel, they captured them, they brought them as captives to Babylon.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of the people they brought as captives, they said, Um, pick people who are healthy, who are strong, who are well spoken, um, and who understand, who have wisdom, who have sound knowledge, pick those of the captives that have these qualities and bring them in and teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
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  SPEAKER_00: So they were slaves essentially, and brought them in and started training them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're here and you're a student, I want you to listen with 17 ears.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, God gave these young men an unusual aptitude for understanding every aspect of literature and wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God gave Daniel the special ability to interpret the meanings of visions and dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is part of God's glory, his wisdom, his understanding, the ability to understand dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you guys here with me so far?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're here and you're a student, stop studenting alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you hear what I said?
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't student alone, you're with somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're studying anatomy, for instance, the person who designed the human body is living on the inside of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when other people are struggling to understand anatomy, you shouldn't be struggling to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that understanding?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, Holy Spirit, help me, help me understand this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you guys here with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're studying management and you're like, oh man, you know, the graphs, the this, the that, it's hard to understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: The person on the inside of you manages galaxies.
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  SPEAKER_00: If he can understand how to manage galaxies, he can teach you how to manage a company.
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  SPEAKER_00: I are you guys here with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't student alone arise, shine, for your light has come.
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  SPEAKER_00: When people say everybody struggles with it, don't struggle with them, for darkness is over the class, but the glory of the Lord is risen on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now, verse 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the training period ordered by the king was completed, the chief of staff brought all the young men to King Nebuchadnezzar.
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  SPEAKER_00: The king talked with them, and no one now remember, kings come to the brightness of your okay, and no one impressed him as much as Daniel, Hananiah, Michelle, and Azariah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they entered the royal service.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you guys here?
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  SPEAKER_00: They entered where the royal service.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it says, whenever the king consulted them in any matter requiring wisdom and balanced judgment, he found them ten times more capable than any of the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: How many of you like that kind of promotion?
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, these are people who are captives, but they chose to arise, they chose to shine because their light had come, and nations came to their light, and kings came to the brightness of their rising.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell the person next to you, I refuse to be ordinary.
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  SPEAKER_00: I refuse it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this has helped you in any way, I would love for you to join the movement and share this episode with your friends, family, and the Christians in your world.
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  SPEAKER_00: By doing this simple thing, you could be changing the trajectory of someone's lives, their family, and their community.
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  SPEAKER_00: That makes you a world changer and they will love you forever.